The Best Assisted Living Communities in Weld County, CO

"Greeley Village has both assisted living and memory care, but we just did the assisted living. It's a newer facility, so it's in great shape. It's very pleasing to walk into it. It's a little bigger than the other place, but it's nice. The staff was very welcoming and I could see she's very involved. She knows a lot of the people that are staying in the assisted living. If they needed something while we were on the tour, she was quick to get somebody in there to help them, or she just took care of it herself while she was there. They had a hair salon, barbershop type thing, and they got some exercise areas for the people staying there. It's a well laid out facility. I visited with some people that were coming in to visit a loved one and randomly talked to them, and they were just very, very pleased with the care. They were very happy that their mother was there. That weighs pretty strong."

"We visited Bethesda Gardens Loveland and toured the memory care for my parents. We noticed that they have a lot of interactive activities to do. As they age, and if they do have a slight memory problem, the activities keep them active that way, so I appreciate that they have a lot of things going on there. The facility was very high-end and very clean, and because it was newer, it had that much going for it. I wouldn't expect something as new as they are to be run down at this point. It looked like everything was good, and if there was a scuff somewhere or a spot on the floor, it would have been taken care of. It's very open, very relaxing, too. The staff who helped us with the tour was very good and very friendly."

"Sunny Side living under the direction of Karen has been an incredible blessing to my family. Karen is a very loving and caring person and her concern for the well being of her residents is clearly seen in how well she and all of her family and staff take care of the residents. It is very obvious to see that the staff are inspired by Karen’s leadership and they step up to the task very well. Both my father and Mother moved into Sunny Side. My Father passed away after a few months but my mother continued on as a resident for 2 years before passing away. During these 2 years my family was able to see the incredible level of care provided to my parents and Karen took extraordinary steps to accommodate the needs of my mother and other residents as well. As my mom’s condition and needs changed, Karen would work together with family members to discuss ideas for helping my mom and she listened to family as we presented ideas based on our knowledge of our mom. We were all able to work together as a team knowing we all wanted what was best for my mother. As my mother’s condition declined, Karen and the staff adapted to her needs. Karen and staff took special care to bathe my mom even when it wasn’t easy or convenient. Karen was always looking for ways to make my mother’s situation as good as it can be given the added challenges. Karen made extraordinary efforts to keep my mom from being bedridden knowing that she was a very social person and needed to be with the other people in the house. The extra care was challenging for the staff but Karen knew it was important to my mom and she made it work. Karen and Sunny Side staff would make extra efforts to take my mom and another resident out for walks in the neighborhood when conditions allowed knowing that the outing was therapeutic for them. They would frequently take the residents out onto a deck to enjoy sunshine and a beautiful view of the mountains. The residents thoroughly enjoyed it. Sunny Side living blessed my father by taking him and our family through end of life through a home hospice program and they have done the same thing with other residents as well. Karen her family & staff treated the dying residents with respect and dignity. With the passing of both of my parents, Sunny Side blessed my family with love, support and compassion through a difficult time. Sunny Side is always very clean and very well maintained and there is a focus on cleanliness at the house. The rooms are spacious and there is an abundance of natural lighting that adds to a warm and comfortable feeling in the house. Meals are great and there were times when I was envious of the meals my mother had because they were so good. Karen would spend time with my mom in studying the Bible and having special teaching programs on the TV. When conditions allowed for it, Karen would take my mom to a creative writing class because Karen knew my mom really enjoyed the class and the outing. Wednesdays were a special day when several women friends would visit Sunny Side to have an afternoon of playing games and extra effort was made to include the residents in the game time. My family is profoundly grateful for the way Karen and Sunny Side blessed my parents with such great and loving care and we are so thankful that my parents were able to live out their last days in such an amazing home."

"My mother will be moving into Hillcrest of Loveland. We chose it because of the size. It was a little smaller than the others, and the size of the individual units was bigger and finished a little nicer. She had a full kitchen and granite and tops. It's independent with an option to move to assisted and then memory care so that as she needs more services, we don't have to move her completely to a different facility. They spoke to my mom directly instead of to me. They knew all the residents as we ran into them in the facility and different things about what was going on in their lives. We stayed and had a meal and talked to the residents. The meal we had wasn't fantastic, but we saw what everybody else was having and there were good choices and those looked good, so I'm guessing we just chose the wrong one. The transportation was not limited only to medical care and it was for anything within the limits of Loveland, which was a big deal. Then, they had a wellness center that was staffed regularly. They're not physical therapists, but they have some kind of certification to help the seniors stay active."

"My mom has been in the memory care for a year now. We absolutely love the activity person! I wish I could remember her name but I have been there for several activities and she is so full of energy and fun to be around. She is able to get a lot of the residents involved and everyone has so much fun! When I visit my Mom’s room is always clean and she is clean and dressed in clean clothes. All the staff have been very nice and I really believe they care about the residents. Of course no one wants their parent to live in a facility but we are very pleased with Collinwood."

"My parents will be moving into Brookdale Fort Collins Assisted Living. They're going to assess them to determine if they're going to go into assisted living or the bridges program. We had planned on putting them into the memory care system, but after they read my dad's assessment, they figured they probably could go either into assisted living or the bridges, which is halfway between. We saw both the dining room in the assisted living, and we liked the fact that they had the main meal and they're able to order a la carte in case they don't like what they were serving. The staff goes around and takes their order, and then they go back to the kitchen and bring out their food. It's more like a restaurant-type situation, which I know my parents will like. What we saw looked very appetizing. We liked the fact that, in either the assisted living and/or the bridge program, they have a kitchen-type area where they have a little refrigerator and microwave. They can go down to the dining hall and have breakfast down there, or they can stay in their room and have coffee and cereal however they want to do it. They encourage them to go down and have breakfast with everyone. It was just clean, very presentable, and it wasn't crowded. My parents would be able to get around with their walkers. It just looks like a nice restaurant. They have walking clubs, drawing art programs, and exercise programs. They have had something almost every 2 hours in both memory care and assisted living. Each program had an activities director, so it wasn't a dual thing, they each had a program director. We went in there at 2:00 in the afternoon, so they were all done eating. But the refreshment bar looked nice and very appetizing. Those rooms that we got to see, were in the process of replacing the carpet, painting the walls, and redoing the trim. We've got to see the rooms that people were moving out of. Whichever facility they had to go into, the assisted living or bridge program, it was going to be nice rooms."

"Dad moved to Brookdale North Loveland. The facility is clean. Many of the staff that we met and were introduced to when we were signing up were very friendly and appeared to be very caring and respectful. I was told that the staff turnover there is very low too, in comparison with other places. It is homey and uncluttered. The layout is easy to navigate for the residents because it's like a big square. They have a beauty salon and my dad got a haircut there, which was nice. They have snacks available 24/7 and ice cream for the asking, which is nice for my dad because he has a sweet tooth. There is an enclosed courtyard that they can have 24-hour access to, and they don't have to worry about outside people coming into the courtyard. There's also a piece of exercise equipment that they can use and an activity area, which is very welcoming."

"We love MorningStar Assisted Living & Memory Care of Fort Collins. In fact, we're working on something with them to place my mom in. We like the appearance and the staff. Everything about it was very inviting. The building was very clean, too. I can't say enough good things about it. I like them a lot. The size of the rooms is more than I expected, and they're a very good layout, too."

"Brookdale Mariana Butte was a very nice facility. It was very well put together. They had a lot of nice activities. The director lady who took us on a tour was fun. The apartments we toured were newly remodeled, so they were very nice. They had a refrigerator, a microwave, and a stovetop. The staff was very animated and full of energy and positivity. There was also nothing dirty or off-putting about that place."

"My father is in Gardens Care Senior Living - Coyote Creek. I was told by the manager that my father could stay because they're getting TRU PACE starting July 1st, so he will switch from Medicaid and Medicare to TRU PACE starting July 1st. My dad wants to stay there because they remodeled it. They painted the outside and fixed it up. They fixed up the inside. They did everything from painting to replacing appliances, replacing the floors, replacing the kitchen countertops, putting up pictures and artwork, and buying a new TV. Plus he lives right across the street from me, that's why he wants to stay there. They do barbecues every once in a while. They do activities for the residents. They do painting projects for the residents. I ate with the seniors over there in their home with my dad on Thanksgiving and Christmas. On Thanksgiving, they had turkey dinner and ham, just like you would at any other household. They had a couple of different pies for the residents to eat. They have two homes there. One home is for the people that are a little more mobile, can communicate, and can walk around, either with canes, stroller, or whatever. Then they have another home for people with a little more Alzheimer's and dementia or who need more care. Another thing that's nice about it is if the weather's bad outside if it's snowing and it's wintery and it's cold, the residents inside the home can still get a lot of exercises. The home is made so that in the middle, you have the kitchen and the laundry room and some other stuff, but you have a hallway that walks around all that. Their rooms are around the outer part of the home, so the residents inside the facility could walk a circle. They can walk as many circles as they want to get exercise. My dad is in assisted living and the other house is memory care and he's been in both. They stuck him into memory care first. As time went on, they assessed him and they eventually moved him to assisted living. On the memory side, they lock the doors for safety for the residents so that they don't wander out into the streets or get lost. They have secured doors over there on the memory side. They work well with the residents. They have treats in between meals for the residents, popcorn, a fruit bowl, bars, or ice cream sandwiches. They mix it up all the time. They give plenty of food. They're always making way over the amount of food per resident over there. If they want seconds or thirds or whatever, they can have it with no problem. When the residents do well like paintings of different things, they'll hang them on the wall. The staff has changed over the two years, but I haven't run across anybody that is doing something that they weren't supposed to be doing. I always thought they did a good job and they cared about the residents. They took good care of them and try to treat them like their own family. The only bad thing is the turnover, but you probably have that in every place. That's not an easy job and there are quite a few young workers. They don't have a little van or a little truck to take them to the centers. What you get is what's there. They don't have extra doctors and extracurricular activities. My dad had his eyes done and they had to put drops in his eyes and all that over there. They've always done a spectacular job doing it. They followed the doctor's directions to the tee."

"Brookdale Longmont Senior Living has very helpful people. It is somewhere that we would definitely consider if we could make this work. It's a very clean facility and very different from your normal facility. It was more like individual apartments, but you still get the care you need. I'm very impressed with this facility.They've been very good about keeping back in touch with me and giving me some other options or just walking me through what this means. We met with the director and the staff, both were very informative about the place. They did a great job and spent a lot of time with us."

"We like the workers at Aladdin Assisted Living Center at Keenesburg. The residents are friendly, and the staff seems to be very attentive. My mother-in-law has only good things to say about the food, and she is doing activities with the other residents like Bingo and word search. They provide three meals a day, plus snacks."

"We toured Atria Longmont. The meals were a really big part of what my friend needed. They had a good meal setup where you could order food. Plus, I loved that they had the independent and assisted living people eat together daily for a meal. That was cool. It's a beautiful, nice place. It doesn't make you feel like you're in a nursing home. The staff was very cordial. I felt bad for them trying to help us because my friend was being rude to her, but she hung in there and understood. She did understand what we were going through, and all the staff did. I met and talked to the gal at the front desk. They were all very, very nice."

"My husband moved into Balfour Longmont. They had everything that I was looking for. His apartment is very spacious and nice. The staff is wonderful. The facility is very clean. They take them on tour. If he stays, it's fine. If he doesn't, that's fine, too."