AVIVA West Hartford

AVIVA West Hartford, located in West Hartford, CT offers independent living, assisted living & memory care. Visit Provider Website

There's a level of care here that most communities never name: AssistedPlus, built for someone with cognitive challenges who needs closer attention than standard assisted living gives but isn't ready for full-time memory care.

The campus sits at 1 Hamilton Heights Drive in West Hartford, CT, and AVIVA describes it as a former Catholic girls' school built by the Sisters of Mercy, formerly owned by the Vanderbilts and registered with the National Register of Historic Places.

Pricing at AVIVA West Hartford

AVIVA Senior Living, who operates AVIVA West Hartford, states a starting figure for each long-term option on the community's own pages. None of the three carries a printed billing period, and they sit apart from the short-stay line AVIVA does label daily, so read all three as monthly starting points:

• Independent living and assisted living together: from $3,500 a month
• AssistedPlus: from $5,000 a month
• Holistic Memory Care: from $5,775 a month

That first figure covers two ways of living at once, because AVIVA prices independent and assisted living under one heading. Short stays are the gap: AVIVA prices those by the day and shares no figure at all, so the fastest way to turn a starting rate into a workable budget is a request through Get Pricing for the daily rate on your dates plus what a care assessment adds.

Care Levels at AVIVA West Hartford

Assisted living runs on medication management, daytime nursing and social activities, so you keep the parts of your day you still handle yourself. AVIVA's amenities page calls that same nursing care available when needed instead, so nursing hours are a question the team can settle before you tour. AssistedPlus is the step above, aimed at people with cognitive challenges who need more attention but not full-time memory care, the stage where two levels can both fit badly. Holistic Memory Care sits beyond it at $5,775, and AVIVA doesn't describe that program for this community, so how your mom's day would be staffed has to come from the team.

Amenities at AVIVA West Hartford

Therapy happens inside the building, physical, speech and occupational alike, so an appointment doesn't mean a car ride. The monitored emergency response system runs around the clock. Scheduled rides to appointments and outings, housekeeping and laundry every day, and cable TV with high-speed WiFi come with living here, and private residences have a kitchenette. Pets are welcome, though no weight limit or pet fee is given. AVIVA sorts floor plans into the categories it prices but names no plans and no square footage, so asking for the dimensions of an open apartment tells you whether your bedroom set fits.

Life at AVIVA West Hartford

The chapel and theater here are working venues: AVIVA says The Hartt School of Music and the Hartford Flute Ensemble perform for residents in both, and the Playhouse on Park brings multiple shows a year, so live music is already built into the week. Meals are planned around dietary needs and cooked by the kitchen's chefs, though no meal count is tied to any rate. Two reviewers credit the marketing director by name for staying with them through the move-in decision.

Around AVIVA West Hartford

AVIVA places the community in the heart of West Hartford, moments from museums, parks and medical centers, and names the Noah Webster House nearby. Those are AVIVA's own descriptions, not measured drives, so driving the route from 1 Hamilton Heights Drive yourself shows what a visiting day really involves. AVIVA names West Hartford, Hartford and New Britain as the area it serves.