Anonymous
Assisted LivingFamily/friend
September 24, 2025
MorningStar at Applewood
The people and care were amazing top to bottom. Yes, we would recommend MorningStar at Applewood to other families based on the experience so far.
2800 Youngfield St, Lakewood, CO 80215

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Assisted Living
Memory Care

2800 Youngfield St, Lakewood, CO 80215

12791 West Alameda Pkwy, Lakewood, CO 80228

7205 W Quincy Ave, Lakewood, CO 80235

555 South Pierce Street, Lakewood, CO 80226
Active promotion
No
Active promotion
No
Active promotion
No
Active promotion
No
Pet friendly
Yes
Pet friendly
Yes
Pet friendly
Yes
Pet friendly
Yes
Care types offered
2
Assisted Living, Memory Care
Care types offered
2
Assisted Living, Memory Care
Care types offered
3
Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living
Care types offered
2
Assisted Living, Memory Care
for MorningStar at Applewood
A Place for Mom has scored MorningStar at Applewood with 8.7 out of 10 using our proprietary review score based on 3 reviews in the last 2 years. Over all time, MorningStar at Applewood has 65 reviews with an average "overall experience" of 4.1 out of 5.
Anonymous
Assisted LivingFamily/friend
September 24, 2025
The people and care were amazing top to bottom. Yes, we would recommend MorningStar at Applewood to other families based on the experience so far.
Brian
Assisted LivingFamily/friend
June 20, 2025
The staff were very friendly and helpful. When we arrived to check in they met us at the door and made introductions to staff and residents who were there. They were very responsive to our questions and concerns. The first evening we were there we had several family members who came down to visit and they were very accommodating. They made an effort to get my wife involved in activities. The facilities were well maintained and clean. The food options were great. Overall we were very pleased with our experience there.
SLH
Assisted LivingFamily/friend
May 15, 2025
The facility has been nicely updated and appointed. They communicate generic plans and projects weekly. Staff turnover is not a problem.
Sheri G
Memory CareToured community
September 4, 2024
The community is completely brand new with warm and welcoming atmosphere. It is exceptionally clean and smells great with friendly staff greeting you at the entrance and all the way through the community while touring. Highly recommend!
Anonymous
Memory CareFamily/friend
April 29, 2024
This place has been under renovation. They are still working on the kitchen but all new furniture. My first two weeks were not great. Non existent orientation. Things have improved. I take Gene on Fridays to the main building for music. He seems mostly content. Very few residents can communicate in the lock down area which is sad. In my mind the small house was very mediocre. I would not be happy going there to visit him. The room they showed me had no private bath and it was the same price. Probably they focus on Medicaid. Did not look at other places. It is a quick trip for me to Morningstar. His room is very nice.
Jessica
Assisted LivingToured community
April 24, 2023
I toured this facility and it was almost identical to the other nearby location and overall rated very high in our choices, but one thing that was very off-putting about the tour was our tour guide. In addition to showing us into empty and 'model' rooms our tour guide also opened up and showed us rooms of current residents. I thought that this was very unprofessional and it made me feel very uncomfortable, like I was violating someone's privacy. I know that I would not like my family member's room being showed to strangers on a tour. It was also very difficult to ask her questions about the community because she talked nonstop the entire tour. I literally had to interrupt her multiple times to get any of my questions answered and in the end I just gave up trying to ask them. This staff member was a big reason why we chose the other community.
Mark
Assisted LivingToured community
February 28, 2023
Our family had an in person tour and from everything we were able to experience on the tour and the different staff members we were able to meet we have to say we thought it was a good tour experience.
Bev M
Memory CareNovember 15, 2022
This is the worst place to put your loved ones. The building is disgusting. The residents rooms are not well kept. Their laundry is constantly missing or mixed up with other residents. The food quality is so poor for the amount of money you pay because management hires under qualified people to do jobs they don’t understand. Your loved ones will not be taken care of, especially a memory care. They allow your loved ones to fall and get hurt and fight each other with no reports to family members. The staff steals things from the residents rooms. There is not communication from any management about your loved one. They input medication orders incorrectly and end up giving wrong meds or not giving the medication at all. The staff yells at the residents and no management checks on the day to day routine of the residents or their personal well-being. They do bare minimum until your loved one is so skinny and so well unkept they are unrecognizable. There are a little to no activity is going
anonymous
Memory CareFamily/friend
February 2, 2022
For the most part we're pretty happy. When I give them feedback on what I'd like to see with memory care residents, they don't really make any changes. But they do a good job with cleanliness. I like that they try to keep it open to visitors, even though the pandemic has made that difficult. They have had some outbreaks, but they don't restrict visitors. I think that's really important, because the outcome is disastrous to the residents if they don't get to see their families. We had a couple of issues at first. In memory care unit, they have 20 residents and 2-3 staff to care for them. The staff would be taking their breaks at the same time and acting unprofessionally. I did talk to the director, and that has improved. But I just feel like they shouldn't be having frequent down time since there's always something that can be done for the residents.
Jeff J
Assisted LivingResident/client
February 2, 2022
This place is a mess. There is rarely someone at the front desk to assist family or residents. The care staff is horrible. They would rather give residents room trays then help the resident to dining room. The appearance of the place is out dated. The food is processed off of outdated menus. Cheap and don't care about giving residents quality meals. Memory care is an after thought. The marketing director will lie to you, to get you in. It's nothing what they present .
anonymous
Memory CareToured community
December 1, 2021
We had a great tour with Applewood Place. I had another family member who was here previously and it was a great experience for her. We just were not the biggest fans of the memory care portion of the facility.
Flo Z
Assisted LivingFamily/friend
November 19, 2021
I am an occasional visitor of a friend who resides there. Her health has declined, she has lost weight, seems lethargic at all times. She is in a wheelchair when she was very capable upon the start. Now she is too weak to walk. Her room is dusty, stains on her carpet, smells of urine, she has had her wedding rings stolen- she never took them off...and replaced with a cheap ring. Her toiletries are her own responsibility, yet they are always taken. The center is impressive, however. Understaffed resulting in lack of care for those that need it. Some of the staff are enthusiastic lately, but they must be the contracted ones because of being short staffed. Some have been very lazy, on their cellphones and looking bored. I witnessed staff walking around just to get there shift over.
anonymous
Assisted LivingToured community
June 25, 2021
Our family had an in person tour and the experience was great, it had a very homey feeling to it. However, at the time we were looking the community did not have independent living and we wanted our loved one to move out of assisted living to independent living.
Bobbi Page
Memory CareFamily/friend
February 23, 2019
Our loved one has declined in the Juniper facility. I my opinion it is poorly managed and basic senior care requirements like locking the wheelchair bake when returning the resident to their room, and leaving them unchecked from dinner to bedtime is dangerous for some elderly. This continues to happen after months of expressing this concern. Injuries requiring trips to the ER have become numerous. Maintenance issue like cleaning blood,and accidents out of the carpet and leaking toilet and wet floor take days or weeks to resolve, even with multiple request. Promises of being able to order anything on the menu have proven to be frustrating because they frequently are out of four or more items at once. And Atria would leave fruit and cookies out after dinner. Not Juniper. Very disappointed since Juniper took over this facility. I feel sometimes the residents are mocked and disrespected by an unsupervised immature staff. The best caregivers have left.
Anonymous
Memory CareFamily/friend
February 23, 2019
This facility is no longer run by Artia. Juniper has recently taken over. 2018 reviews reflect the quality of an Atria facility, and Juniper runs a lower quality operation in my opinion. They are attentive though the sign up process. However months later -the toilet leaks for over three weeks and we have to be responsible for making sure the water is off the floor to avoid slipping hazard. The carpet remains unsanitary after accidents and from the facility flu outbreak. Numerous request week after week produce nothing but excuses, such as, parts ordered hasn't come in......what's Home Depot for? What about safety????? What about germ control????? Undelivered medications that can't be verified because that person went home?? Bandages that can't be changed because there's no nurse on site even thou leaking blood. Loved one told to sit in that chair and not move after falling and fell again because they needed to go to the bathroom and all the falls happened because their walker hadn't been left in reach by staff. The ER could have been avoided if only the staff had put their walker in front of the chair, or inquired do you need assistance. If your loved one can't push their call button for help because of a high fever, laying in diarrhea, or they hit their head falling, I recommend avoiding Applewood JUNIPER. In an effort to understand the unending and difficult demands put on the staff of a senior care facility overall, and new management transfer, my patience has now run out as more and more basic senior care requirements go array. I feel there is now poor management of this facility
Dan Anderson
Memory CareFamily/friend
December 28, 2018
I want to thank all of the employee's and staff at Applewood Place for the love, effort, thoughtfulness they displayed in hosting my father's ([name removed]) 100th birthday celebration on Dec. 20th. The party was a resounding success and I want to give special thanks to [name removed], [name removed], [name removed], and [name removed] for making it an unforgettable day. Thank You [Name removed]
Anonymous
Memory CareFamily/friend
January 8, 2018
I toured this facility while looking for a place for my Mother. I absolutely loved this place and it is nicely put together. The marketing director who gave me the tour was friendly and outgoing. She was very knowledgeable and I enjoyed the tour. However, we didn’t pick this community because it is more expensive than other places and they came unfurnished.
Wilma Land
Memory CareResident/client
October 13, 2017
This is my home and I am very content here! Our people that work here are wonderful! They are the greatest!
Elva Gauper
Memory CareResident/client
October 13, 2017
Love the food & activities. People are nice & friendly.
Irene Hildebrand
Memory CareResident/client
October 13, 2017
Friendly, food is good. Caregivers are professional.
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