Rio Rancho & Albuquerque, NM
24-Hour Personalized Care for Seniors Who Need Assistance With Daily Living
Our Family Caring for Your Family
"The care and warmth here truly feels like family."
Locally owned residential assisted living in Rio Rancho and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
* How the dementia-care assessment works. Room types vary by location and availability changes. Placement depends on an individual assessment and current openings.
Services, accommodations, and care capabilities are based on individual assessment, current availability, applicable licensing requirements, and the resident's approved care plan.
For Families
Most families reach out after months of worry — a fall, a missed prescription, too many sleepless nights, or the sense that home is no longer a safe place to be alone. Casita offers a steadier alternative in a warm house where help is always close by.
Falls, wandering, or a phone that goes unanswered can turn an ordinary evening into an emergency.
Our Approach: Someone is awake and nearby at all hours, the home is secure, and every routine is built around what keeps your loved one steady.
Doses get missed, prescriptions change, and the schedule becomes hard for anyone to track from a distance.
Our Approach: We assist with medications on a schedule utilizing Quickmar, an eMAR, under RN oversight, and we stay in touch with prescribers and the pharmacy so nothing slips.
Family members often run on little sleep while juggling work, their own health, and everyone else's needs.
Our Approach: Our team takes the daily load so you can go back to being a spouse, son, or daughter instead of a night-shift helper.
Bathing, dressing, grooming, and getting around the house can quietly become unsafe.
Our Approach: We help with the hard parts and step back from the rest, so privacy and independence stay intact.
Living alone can mean quiet days, skipped meals, and fewer reasons to get out of the chair.
Our Approach: Meals are shared at one table, neighbors are a few steps away, and there is company and conversation throughout the day.
A large building with long hallways rarely feels like anywhere someone would choose to live.
Our Approach: Casita is a real house on a real street — small, familiar, and quiet enough that everyone here knows your loved one by name.
You don’t have to wait for another emergency to begin exploring a safer option.
What Families Gain
Dependable support for residents who should no longer navigate daily life alone.
Respectful assistance that protects privacy, personal preferences, and independence.
Companionship, shared meals, activities, and meaningful interaction in a residential setting.
Greater peace of mind and fewer daily caregiving responsibilities for spouses and family members.
Nurse-Led Care
Casita Senior Living is a locally owned residential assisted living community led by Monica Lovato, Registered Nurse, entrepreneur, and former two-time world boxing champion who has dedicated more than 25 years to healthcare. Born and raised in Northern New Mexico’s Española Valley, she began working in the medical field at age 19 at a dialysis clinic in Española and later became a nurse in her mother's memory.
Today, Monica owns and operates Casita Senior Living’s two residential assisted living homes, built from the ground up alongside her business partners, Vanessa and Kevin Caudill. Her philosophy is simple: care for every resident as you would want your own family to be cared for. Monica remains personally involved with her residents, families, and staff and holds her team to high standards of professionalism, compassion, dignity, and respect.
At Casita, residents aren't just people we care for; they become part of our family.
Our family caring for your family.
What We Offer
A short look at daily life at Casita. The full list — including hospice coordination, nighttime help, and room options — lives on the Services page.
Awake staff day and night, with a Registered Nurse guiding every care plan.
Assist with medications on a schedule utilizing Quickmar, an eMAR.
Bathing, dressing, grooming, and mobility — with privacy and dignity intact.
Home-cooked food served in the dining room, not delivered on a tray.
Familiar routines in a small home, based on an individual assessment.
Music, games, gardening, walking, gentle exercise, and daily conversation.
Daily life at Casita may include music, games, gardening, walking, range-of-motion exercises, cognitive activities, conversation, and simple moments of connection. Activities are adapted to residents' interests, abilities, care plans, and daily needs.
Services, accommodations, and care capabilities are based on individual assessment, current availability, applicable licensing requirements, and the resident's approved care plan.
Everyday Moments
Two Homes, One Standard of Care
Rio Rancho, NM
A warm residential home in Rio Rancho offering personalized 24-hour care in a small, family-oriented setting.
Albuquerque, NM
A welcoming Albuquerque home with attentive caregivers, comfortable common areas, and dignified daily support.
Family Experiences
Words from families whose loved ones have called Casita home.
"We couldn't be happier with the HOME we found for our dad at Casita! We were welcomed into a beautiful home and extended family by the wonderful staff from day one."
"There are no words to express how thankful I am to Monica and her extremely patient and friendly staff. Thanks to Casita Senior Living, my friend's last days were peaceful."
"The staff treats my husband with the utmost respect and care. Everyone is very loving and attentive to his every need. They treat us like family and who could ask for more."
Come See For Yourself
The best way to understand Casita is to experience the environment, meet the care team, and ask questions about your loved one's needs. Schedule a personal tour of one of our residential homes.
No pressure. Just a personal conversation about your family's needs.
Common Questions
It is 24-hour personal care and supervision provided in a small private home rather than a large facility, so fewer people share the attention of the staff on duty.
There are no long corridors or shift-rotation strangers. Meals are shared at one table, routines stay familiar, and the people working here know each resident personally.
Yes. Awake staff are on site day and night, with Registered Nurse oversight of each care plan.
We complete an individual assessment before move-in to decide whether the person's needs can be safely supported. What we can accommodate depends on staffing, licensing, the approved care plan, and current conditions.
Yes. We work alongside hospice providers when that is appropriate, and a resident does not need to be on hospice to live at Casita.
Call us at (505) 525-2568 or send a message from the contact page, and we'll arrange a time to walk you through the home.
