StoryPoint Altoona

StoryPoint Altoona, located in Altoona, IA offers independent living, assisted living & memory care. Visit Provider Website

Eleven named apartment plans run from a 350 square foot memory care studio up to two 1,065 square foot two bedrooms, and the Italian names on the largest ones are left over from the community's previous identity.

StoryPoint Altoona, which the operator says was formerly Edencrest at The Tuscany, sits on 8th Street SE in Altoona, IA, about five miles from UnityPoint Health Iowa Lutheran Hospital. Independent living, assisted living and memory care are all in one building, so needing more help later does not have to mean a new address, and the plan list is detailed enough to compare apartments before you make contact.

Pricing at StoryPoint Altoona

StoryPoint Group, who manages StoryPoint Altoona, states no monthly rate for independent living, assisted living or memory care on its own website, and its plan sheet carries square footage for all eleven layouts with no rent beside any. The local market range for assisted living in the Altoona area runs $5,044 to $5,356 a month, so that is the bracket to budget against until the community gives you its own. One request through Get Pricing gets you the figure for the exact plan and care level you want, so you can compare a real number against that range.

Independent Living Apartments at StoryPoint Altoona

Five independent living plans are named, with square footage on each:

• The Toscana, one bedroom, 691 square feet
• The Cypress, one bedroom, 691 square feet
• The Pair, one bedroom, 777 square feet
• The Verona, two bedroom, 1,065 square feet
• The Florence, two bedroom, 1,065 square feet

The Toscana and The Cypress are the same size, so what separates them is where they sit in the building. The two bedrooms at 1,065 square feet are close to a small house, which is what makes this community workable for a couple.

Assisted Living and Memory Care Apartments at StoryPoint Altoona

Six more plans cover the two care levels. Assisted living has The Gardenia studio at 350 square feet, The Luna and The Luna II one bedrooms both at 470, and The Vineyard two bedroom at 710. Memory care has The Sereno studio at 350 and the deluxe Sereno II at 380. The Luna and Luna II are the same size and the two Serenos differ by thirty square feet, so in both pairs the deluxe label is doing something other than adding space. Finding out what it adds, and what it adds to the rent, stops you paying for a word.

Care and Support at StoryPoint Altoona

Assisted living here is licensed support available around the clock, and memory care is specialized programming with the same round-the-clock staffing across living, wellness and dining. No staffing ratio and no memory care program name appear anywhere on the operator's pages, so both come from the team rather than a website.

Dining at StoryPoint Altoona

Meals run under the operator's Personalized Dining Experience: three a day, chef-prepared by an executive chef, built on locally sourced ingredients with menus the community says it changes on resident feedback. Community dining rooms and private kitchens both exist, which is the difference between eating on a schedule and cooking when you feel like it.

Around StoryPoint Altoona

Altoona sits east of Des Moines, and the operator puts the community about five miles from UnityPoint Health Iowa Lutheran Hospital. If your doctors are in Des Moines rather than Altoona, that five-mile figure tells you whether your existing appointments survive the move.