MorningStar Boulder

The memory care apartments at MorningStar Boulder are large, and they come with a private shower in the room and a kitchenette fitted with cabinets and a full-size refrigerator. MorningStar Boulder provides assisted living and memory care from 575 Tantra Drive on the south side of Boulder, Colorado, and the community holds 118 beds in total. Care here runs at two levels, with assisted living on one side and memory care for residents living with dementia on the other.

Staff at the community have worked alongside an outside hospice team to keep a resident comfortable during hospice care. Both levels of care are paid on a private basis, and MorningStar Boulder is not a Medicaid provider for assisted living or for memory care. Day to day, a maintenance supervisor works on site and looks after the resident apartments, and the property itself is kept well maintained. Two restaurants sit close to the front door, with Nepal Cuisine, which serves Asian dishes, less than a tenth of a mile away on Tantra Drive itself.

Southern Sun Pub and Brewery is the second, about half a mile from the community when measured in a straight line. Tantra Park lies a few blocks from the community, about three tenths of a mile away in a straight line, inside a residential pocket of South Boulder. Farther out, the grounds of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, mapped as a nature reserve, sit just under two miles from Tantra Drive in a straight line.

The address falls just east of the South Boulder shopping area where Table Mesa Drive meets South Broadway. MorningStar Boulder is set up for older adults who need assisted living and for people living with dementia who need memory care, with both levels paid privately. It also suits families who expect an outside hospice provider to work with the community's own staff, and residents who want a park and two grocery stores within about two thirds of a mile of home.

With 118 beds, it suits residents who would rather live in a larger community than in a small home-style setting. Households that want assisted living and memory care offered under one name, at a single address on Tantra Drive, will find both levels of care in place here. For medical care, Boulder Community Health Foothills Hospital at 4747 Arapahoe Avenue serves as the health system's emergency and trauma hospital, and its emergency department is open around the clock.

The drive from Tantra Drive covers a little over three miles and takes about eight minutes, while the straight-line distance is a little over two miles. The hospital holds 181 beds and sits in the 80303 zip code of Boulder, on Arapahoe Avenue to the north of the community. Groceries are close at hand, with Whole Foods Market at 695 South Broadway about half a mile away and King Soopers at 3600 Table Mesa Drive a little over half a mile away, both measured in a straight line.

That same shopping area also holds cafes and restaurants, all of them within about half a mile of the community on Tantra Drive. Boulder County is home to the community, which shares the 80305 zip code with the South Boulder shops along Table Mesa Drive.