NORTHWOOD GLEN II ASSISTED LIVING

Northwood Glen II Assisted Living is a licensed assisted living home on West Park View Lane in Glendale, Arizona, operated by Northwood Glen Assisted Living. State licensing records from the Arizona Department of Health Services list a capacity of 10 residents and approval to provide directed care, the highest of Arizona's three assisted living service levels, which allows the community to serve residents who are unable to direct their own care, including many people living with dementia.

Northwood Glen II is a family-owned residential care home on West Park View Lane in north Glendale, the newer of the two Northwood Glen homes. Residents have fully furnished private suites with walk-in style private bathrooms, smart TVs, and wireless call buttons. Staff are awake 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and a physician and a registered nurse are on call. The home offers personal, supervisory, and directed care, medication monitoring and dispensing, diabetic and oxygen care, incontinence and catheter care, coordination of health appointments, and end-of-life care.

Meals are home-cooked American and ethnic dishes. Residents have a full-time activities schedule with pet and music therapy and the iN2L senior engagement system, and laundry and housekeeping are included. Bathrooms have safety ramps and grab bars. In Arizona, assisted living homes are residential settings that serve ten or fewer residents, and they are licensed by the Department of Health Services at the same three service levels as larger centers.

Supervisory care covers general supervision and help in an emergency, personal care adds hands-on help with activities such as bathing, dressing, and medications, and directed care is for residents who can no longer recognize danger or direct their own care. A small home usually means a shared living room and dining table, fewer residents per caregiver, and a quieter daily routine than a large community.

Assisted living suits people who want help with daily routines such as medications, bathing, and dressing while living in a house-like setting and as much independence as possible. Someone who needs daily skilled nursing or intensive rehabilitation may be better served by a skilled nursing facility. Arizona rules require an assisted living facility to prepare a written service plan for each resident that describes the care and services to be provided, and to review and update it as needs change.

Families can ask to take part in that review and to learn who to call when something in the plan no longer fits. Families can look up a community's license and inspection history on the state's AZ Care Check website before a visit, and reading recent inspection reports can show how a community has responded to any past findings. The Glendale address keeps the community within reach of the area's hospitals, shopping, and services.

When visiting Northwood Glen II Assisted Living, it helps to ask who completes the move-in assessment, how often care plans are updated, how many caregivers are on duty overnight, and how the team communicates with families. For day-to-day life and appointments, it helps to know what is close by. Measured in straight-line distance from the address using OpenStreetMap data, the nearest hospital is HonorHealth Deer Valley Medical Center, about 4 miles away; the nearest urgent care clinic is AlphaMeD Urgent Care, about 3.5 miles away; the nearest pharmacy is Walgreens, about 2 miles away; the nearest grocery store is Safeway, about 1.5 miles away; the nearest park is Adobe Mountain Desert Railway Park, about a mile away; the nearest public library is Agave Library, about 1.5 miles away.

Actual driving distance will be somewhat longer depending on the route. Local Senior Advisor is a free service to families, and a local advisor can help you weigh Northwood Glen II Assisted Living against other options around Glendale and plan the questions to bring on a visit.