Rocky Mountain Assisted Living

Age-in-place hospice is included in the monthly rent at Rocky Mountain Assisted Living, a 16-bed residential home in Thornton, Colorado, that provides assisted living and memory care. Night-time checks, help with walking and incontinence management are covered by that same rent, which is a single all-inclusive monthly rate taking in housing, care, meals, activities and amenities. Both types of care are offered under one roof in the house on East 120th Avenue, and residents live here on a month-to-month agreement with no long-term lease to sign.

Staff at the home are awake and on duty 24 hours a day, and physicians round on residents at the house itself. The care team manages medications and helps residents with bathing and dressing, physical therapy is offered on site, and laundry and linen services are provided for residents. For residents in memory care, a full-time activities director plans at least 5 person-centered activities each day, and reminiscence, art therapy and music therapy are part of that program.

Each staff member completes 8 hours of memory care training, plus another 8 hours of instruction through the Alzheimer's Association. Meals come out of the home's own kitchen, with three homemade meals and snacks prepared each day, and special meal requests can be arranged for an additional cost. Several activities are scheduled through the day as well, and the calendar includes art classes, music classes and scheduled outings, along with performances by visiting entertainers who come to the house.

Bedrooms are private or semi-private, and a private half bath is available as an option for residents who would like one. Bathrooms are fitted with handrails along with accessible toilets, tubs and showers, and the house also has walk-in jacuzzi tubs. Cable TV and Wi-Fi are both available to residents in the home, and outside there is a patio with landscaped gardens. Rocky Mountain Assisted Living suits older adults who need help with daily routines or memory support and who would like a home-style setting of 16 beds.

It also fits families looking for assisted living and memory care offered together in the same Thornton house, and residents who enjoy art and music will find classes in both on the activity calendar. The home stands on a residential street in Adams County, just off the East 120th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard retail corridor. A King Soopers is about a fifth of a mile away and a Kohl's on Colorado Boulevard about half a mile, while Target and Sprouts on East 120th Avenue are a little under a mile and a half off.

Starbucks, Noodles & Company, Old Chicago and The Grumpy Egg Cafe all sit on East 120th Avenue within about a third of a mile of the house, and Pho 7 and El Azteca are on East 121st Avenue. Brookshire Park on Saint Paul Street is roughly a fifth of a mile from the door, Walton Heath Park is about a third of a mile away, and Margaret W. Carpenter Park and Open Space lies a little more than a mile from the home.

For medical care, the freestanding Northeast ER on Holly Street is about a mile and a half away, and SCL Health Community Hospital - Northglenn on Grant Street is just under 2 miles off.