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Services
Applewood Our House specializes in Dementia Care. We have all types of Dementia residents from Alzheimer’s, Frontal Lobe Dementia, Lewy Body, Parkinson’s, and Vascular Dementia.
Our main focus is Memory Care and help residents with behaviors and create a normal purposeful home for all.
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Amenities
Laundry and room cleaning is done on the same days as showers. They are scheduled 3 times a week, but will be more frequent with accidents.
We provide snacks and can even provide your loved one’s favorite snacks.
We have a schedule of every other day. We offer everything from stand by assist to full assist with dressing, toileting and showering.
The food at Applewood Our House is “home made” and freshly prepared every evening by the overnight staff for the next day at that home. We use Groves Menus to generate balanced and nutritious food options daily. (of course, a little treat is part of the plan)
- We have a calendar of events that take place throughout the year. This includes:
- Trips to the Aquarium in Denver
- Bowling at a small bowling alley to make it calm and easy for the residents
- A big evening at the local Wheat Ridge Circus Tent in late summer
- Fishing up at the trout ponds in the mountains
- We also have a big Harvest Festival in the fall with chili cook offs, face painting , museums, shopping and ice cream parlors
We love our families to participate and help us come up with more fun idea.
We have our own shuttle bus to use for activities and fun. Most of the residents do not require to be away as our services of physicians and PT and other needs are brought into the home.
A: We do allow pets and have to review the size and needs for the pet to ensure we can care for them properly.
It is a decision made by the administrator at the time of the assessment. We do have a house dog at our homes as well.
The ratio is one caregiver to every six residents, plus a manager at the homes. **one to eight at the big houses**
Your loved ones at Applewood Our House do not have to leave at the end of life, we age in place and offer Hospice Services of your choice to come to comfort our residents until the end.
We have two caregivers around the clock, plus other support staff such as the House Manager, activity and cleaning staff.
Costs
We are private pay for our services, licensed by the State of Colorado. We accept VA, LTC and Private Pay. We offer Cozy.com online payments, which makes payments very easy.
We do have an online payment method with Apt.com. We do not take credit card payments.
$6,000 – $7,000 for a companion room and $7,500 – $8,500 for a private room. The move in fee is used for the maintenance of the room after and before someone moves in.
Paint, carpet, music, TV, mood color light because we want the best for each resident and family.
Beauty salon, medication co-pays, doctor co-pays and foot care nurse.
Health and Safety
Each home is at a different location but the hospitals are within 5-10 minutes of any of them.
We have physician services provided weekly. A doctor comes in to visit the residents and determines the needs and levels of care with services and medications. We have physical therapy that may be brought in, and we also have Hospice care while our residents can age in place.
We contract with a pharmacy that delivers the medication directly to our facilities.
We have a doctor that comes once a week to the building and takes most insurances with the exception of Kaiser and some VA patients. We can have our Kaiser patients put on a rounding service as well, but sometimes it takes a little time to accomplish.
General Questions
In person visits please wear a mask and get your temperature checked upon coming in. Also if you are not vaccinated please distance from the residents.
Face-Time, Phone Calls, and other virtual visit options – These visits are arranged through the house manager at each one of our homes.
Our engagement team member will help with the technology set up and support your loved one during the visit.
We age in place, which means that we bring in other outside services whether that be physical therapy or hospice to ensure your loved one can remain here through the end of life.
We typically do not discharge for behaviors. We try to find the cause of the behavior, a medical condition, anxiety, sundowning and/or a multitude of other causes.
Our residents become friends, some are roommates and do enjoy the company and relationship of having a close friend with them day in and day out.
We have shared interests from painting to cooking, we do learn about our residents lives and honor those interests and bring them back in some fashion for each one.
The lifestyle and feel of the Applewood Our House homes are warm with today’s feel of flooring, nice updated kitchens and bathroom, a great backyard to walk, grow vegetables and enjoy sunny warm Colorado days.
We try to ensure when our residents can help, we offer options for them to participate with daily needs and also to have activities, walks and relationships with other residents and care staff.
Our communities offer a small residential environment with heartfelt caring relationships from the caregivers, the other residents, and the doctor that comes to visit.
Our residents become friends with each other and the caring staff. With our small homes of 12 or 16 residents this is an opportunity that is well supported and becomes a natural growth organically with our communities.
Our homes are in Golden, Lakewood and Arvada, we typically can ensure your loved one has a convenient location for you and friends to visit.
We provide the linens unless there is a specific bedspread you would like to bring. The furniture is a family preference. We can provide the furniture or you can provide the furniture.
We offer heartfelt compassionate care.
Our caregivers have a passion for the elderly, love to learn from them, care for them and have a relationship with them.
We create moments and memories together with our families.
Our room sizes vary a little at each house but the typical dimensions are 140 square feet. Typically as 12ft by 11ft or so space.
