Seneca House

Seneca House is a renovated residential house in southwest Fort Collins that now holds 16 beds for assisted living, a home setting rather than the halls of a large facility. The house is spacious, with room for residents to have private time on their own and also to mix easily with the housemates who share it. Seneca House accepts Medicaid, which Colorado calls Health First Colorado, as a way to pay for assisted living in the house.

Care at Seneca House is personalized and available around the clock, and staff keep close track of each resident's medical needs along with medication management. When a resident has needed assistive devices, the staff have arranged for their installation, and they have worked with a family when a special diet was needed. Assisted living is the single type of care provided in the house. Meals in the house are personalized, and when a resident starts craving a certain food, the staff bring it into that resident's meals.

Residents have planned activities on offer, along with a social environment they share with the other people living in the home. There is also room in the house for residents to keep their personal belongings with them. The house stands in a residential part of southwest Fort Collins in the 80526 ZIP code, beside Webber Middle School and Johnson Elementary and west of the South College retail corridor.

Westfield Park lies about four-tenths of a mile north on the same street, a schoolside park with green space, tennis and pickleball courts, a playground, a ball field and a walking path. A little over a mile from the house, Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area holds an example of the shortgrass prairie landscape that predates the settlement of Fort Collins, along with the paved Fossil Creek Trail and a raptor observatory.

Seneca House suits older adults looking for assisted living in a 16-bed residential setting, with personalized care available at any hour and medications handled by staff. It is also a fit for residents who plan to use Medicaid toward the cost of assisted living in a home on a residential Fort Collins street. Residents who use assistive devices or follow a special diet are a natural match as well, since staff have arranged both for residents before.

Families who want to stay involved will find staff who have worked alongside them on details such as diets and equipment. People who would rather live in a household than a large building will find that this renovated house keeps assisted living on a home scale. Poudre Valley Hospital at 1024 South Lemay Avenue is a little over four miles from the house in a straight line, and Banner Fort Collins Medical Center at 4700 Lady Moon Drive is about five miles away.

For errands, Target at 105 West Troutman Parkway sits under a mile and a half from the house, and King Soopers at 4420 South College Avenue is a little under two miles away. Hibachi Steakhouse at 1051 West Horsetooth Road is under a mile from the house, and Lima Coffee Roasters at 4229 South Mason Street is about a mile and a third away.