Brightwork Living runs The Villa at Park Place on 300 South in Pleasant Grove, a single house of about ten residents a couple of blocks from the high school on the Timpanogos bench. It is the home this search is after: 1 home-style residential care home in town, the kind of small, house-based setting that also goes by care home or board-and-care. It is one residence on a residential street, where ten people and the caregivers who look after them all share a single roof, kitchen, and common rooms.
Pleasant Grove families look at a house this small when a resident wants a smaller scale than a large apartment-style community offers. Someone who is calmer among a few familiar faces, who prefers a quiet setting to a busy one, or who simply wants a normal household tends to settle in well here, where a hundred-unit campus suits a different preference. That is the whole appeal of a ten-resident home, and it is what families picture when they go looking for one in Pleasant Grove.
Ten Residents and the Day They Share
With only about ten residents, The Villa at Park Place runs on the rhythm of a household rather than a shift schedule. A small caregiving team looks after everyone, which keeps the ratio low, often one caregiver to a few residents while the house is awake, and means staff who know each person's routine by heart. The care is assisted-living-level and hands-on rather than medical: help with bathing, dressing, grooming, moving around the house, and medications, three meals out of the kitchen, laundry and housekeeping, and someone awake overnight. The Villa is licensed for assisted living and does not run a secured memory-care wing, so it suits a resident who needs daily support but is not at the stage of dementia that calls for a locked, specialized setting. The honest trade-offs of a ten-bed house are the flip side of its intimacy: a thinner activity calendar, no nurse on staff, and a smaller circle of company than a large Pleasant Grove community provides. A resident who wants a full social calendar and deeper amenities may be happier in a bigger building; one who wants quiet and to be known by name is exactly who this house is for.
What Ten Beds Cost, and the Honest Comparison
The Villa does not post a single sticker rate, since the monthly cost of a small home moves with the room and the level of help a resident needs. For perspective, the statewide assisted-living average sits near $5,500 a month in current cost-of-care data, and small Pleasant Grove-area homes generally come in lower, often between roughly $4,200 and $4,500 a month, under that average. A large community bundles amenities, a fuller activity program, and on-site clinical staff into its rate; a small house is paying mostly for the room, the meals, and close personal care. That makes the comparison genuinely two-sided: a shared room in a small home can land well under a big community's entry price, while a private room with heavier care can pull even with it. Because the real figure depends on the care level, the practical move for a family paying privately is to ask The Villa for the all-in monthly cost at the help a resident actually needs, and what would change it later.
One House Among a Growing City's Seniors
Pleasant Grove has grown toward forty thousand residents, but it remains a relatively young city where roughly nine percent are 65 or older, a few thousand seniors in all. Against that, a single home-style care home is a slim slice of the local options, most of which are larger assisted-living and memory-care communities. With about ten rooms in the one small house, an opening is not guaranteed in any given month, especially since steady assisted-living demand keeps the place in use. A family that starts the conversation a few weeks ahead, rather than the afternoon a hospital is ready to send someone home, gives itself room to land the right spot instead of the only one free.
When the Smaller House Fits in Pleasant Grove
What tips a Pleasant Grove family toward the smaller house is usually the person, not the price. A resident who wants a familiar daily rhythm often does well in a home where the same caregiver pours the morning coffee, the kitchen actually cooks, and the living room holds a handful of people. The town itself fits that pace: Pleasant Grove sits on the bench under Mount Timpanogos and its hillside letter, runs the old Strawberry Days festival every June, and keeps the unhurried feel of a place where a care home is just another house on the block. Staying in town also keeps grandchildren and a familiar Sunday routine within easy reach. None of this casts a large community as the lesser option; for a resident who values being known over being entertained, the small house is simply the better match, and naming that preference up front is what makes the search short.
Narrowing It Down With Someone Local
Because The Villa at Park Place is assisted living only and holds just ten rooms, the useful first step is confirming the fit before anyone tours. A local advisor who places families in Pleasant Grove knows whether The Villa has an actual opening, what its all-in rate runs at a given care level, and when a resident's dementia has progressed past what an assisted-living house can safely manage, which points toward a secured memory-care setting instead. Sorting that early keeps a family from touring a house that cannot take their person, or missing the one that can.
We keep adding to the Pleasant Grove directory as we vet homes and communities through 2026. If the small house is what you're considering, send us a note and we'll talk it through, or see the rest of the homes we've reviewed whenever it suits you.
