The Gardens Care Homes - Quaker Acres

On West 74th Avenue in Olde Town Arvada sits Quaker Acres, a house built for one family that's now home to twelve. The renovation preserved the original room proportions and hallway widths, so nothing about the layout announces "facility" — it still reads like somebody's house, because it is one. Assisted living is what happens under this roof and nothing else, with staff helping residents get dressed, manage bathing, and stay on track with medications throughout the day.

There's no dementia-specific programming here, no independent living wing, and no skilled nursing unit. Budget close to $5,500 a month, a figure that folds together the room, meals, and the hands-on care residents receive. The surrounding Olde Town Arvada streets are walkable and settled, with Van Bibber Park just around the corner. When a resident's needs go beyond what the household can manage, Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge is close by.

For errands, the shops along Wadsworth Boulevard sit nearby, and the Kipling Street corridor adds a wider stretch of grocery and retail options a short drive off. Dinner comes out of a home kitchen and lands on one shared table sized for the whole household, closer to a family meal than a dining hall. The same caregivers return shift after shift for the same twelve residents, so faces stay familiar over months and years.

The living room does double duty, busy with morning activity before settling into a calmer space once evening comes. Because the group is small, the daily rhythm bends around what residents want rather than locking into a rigid printed schedule. Quaker Acres runs entirely on private payment, so Medicaid waivers don't apply toward the monthly rate. Resident pets aren't part of the household, and there's no short-term or respite stay option here — the expectation is a long-term move rather than a temporary one.

Care flexes as a resident's abilities shift, handled by the same staff group without asking anyone to relocate to a different setting. The Quaker Acres name sits under the Gardens Care Homes umbrella, a company that runs several small households like this one around the area rather than one large campus. Each address keeps its own small resident group, but the company links them with a shared approach to staffing and daily care.

For a family comparing this twelve-resident house against a much bigger assisted living building, the real differences show up in scale, in how the cost is structured, and in how well staff come to know each resident.