Lakewood Reserve

Lakewood Reserve is a senior community at 555 South Pierce Street in central Lakewood, Colorado, bringing independent living, assisted living, and memory care together under one recently remodeled roof near the Belmar district. Operated by the family-owned Stellar Senior Living, it lets a resident settle in for active retirement and add more support over time without leaving the building or the staff they have come to know.

Independent living suits residents who want an apartment and a full calendar with help nearby if they want it, while assisted living adds hands-on support with medications, bathing, dressing, and the daily routines that grow harder with age. Apartments run across six floor plans, from studios to two-bedrooms, and the community keeps month-to-month flexibility rather than a large entrance fee. Memory care sits in a separate, secured neighborhood and follows Stellar's Apollo Program, built for residents living with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia, with a calmer pace and a routine that helps residents feel settled.

Keeping memory care in the same building lets a couple stay close even when one needs more support than the other. Daily life leans on named venues that give the building character. The Tally Ho Bistro keeps coffee, soda, and pastries available around the clock, the Villa Italia Cinema runs movies, and restaurant-style dining is handled by a professional chef through the day. There is also a chapel, a library, a beauty salon and barber, a fitness center with daily classes, and a poker and billiards lounge.

The community pays attention to the outdoors and to its residents' pets, with an urban backyard patio, a walking path, resident gardens, and a dog run, plus a resident community dog named Misu who is part of daily life. Lakewood Reserve runs on private pay and does not accept Medicaid, and a senior advisor can walk a family through current pricing, how a move between care levels works, and which apartments are open.

The location keeps care and errands within easy reach, with St. Anthony Hospital, a Level I trauma center, about three miles away, Kaiser Permanente's Lakewood medical offices about a mile off, and the walkable Belmar shopping and dining district, with a Whole Foods on Wadsworth, just east. Wadsworth Boulevard and West Alameda Avenue carry residents across Lakewood, with Sixth Avenue close for trips downtown.

With all three care levels under one roof, the Apollo Program for memory care, and a recently remodeled building near Belmar, Lakewood Reserve gives central-Lakewood families a single address that can carry a resident from active retirement through dedicated dementia care.