A small home with a big heart
La Casita Residential Care is a licensed home for older adults in Glendora, California, built around personal care and attentive supervision in a supportive residential setting. Our family has served this community since 2013.
Carmen Santamaria
Founder and Nurse Practitioner
Before opening La Casita, Carmen spent more than 15 years working in oncology as a Registered Nurse. She learned complex symptom management, and she took part in continuing education as cancer therapies evolved.
Most of what shaped her, though, came from the people. Carmen supported patients and families through long treatment journeys. She learned to advocate for what patients and caregivers needed, to listen for the concerns that go unspoken, and to make sure those concerns and preferences were represented when care decisions were made.
That is the sensibility she brought home. La Casita is a residential care home rather than a medical setting, and Carmen's background shapes how the home listens, plans, and coordinates with the licensed professionals who direct each resident's care.
La Casita means the little house.
The name honors Carmen's grandmother's home, which the family called La Casita. It was the kind of house where people were looked after without ceremony, and where everyone knew they belonged.
In 2013, Carmen and her family opened their own home to serve the community, and they carried the name with them. It is still the whole idea: a little house, warm and familiar, where older adults are cared for like family.
In a home this small, no one is a room number. Everyone is a person we know, in a place that feels like their own.
6 residents
A genuinely small home
24 hours
Attentive, around-the-clock supervision
Since 2013
Serving the local communities
The people behind our home
La Casita is family run. Two people carry the responsibility for how the home is led day to day.
Carmen Santamaria
Founder and Nurse Practitioner
Carmen founded La Casita and shapes its care philosophy, drawing on more than 15 years of oncology nursing experience.
Robert Santamaria, BS
Owner and Administrator
Robert is the owner and administrator of La Casita Residential Care.
The values behind our care
A real home
Not an institution. A comfortable house where daily life feels familiar, unhurried, and calm.
Personal attention
With only six residents, caregivers have the time to truly know each person and what matters to them.
Dignity and comfort
Respectful assistance with daily living that protects independence and everyday comfort.
Open family communication
We keep families informed and welcome, because good care is a partnership with the people who love them.
A second home, the same philosophy
Bradford Residential Care
Bradford Residential Care is our sister residential care home in Glendora. It is a second small home run with the same philosophy as La Casita Residential Care: a licensed six-resident house offering personal care and around-the-clock supervision in a calm, familiar setting.
- Address
- 1111 Bradford Dr, Glendora, CA 91740
- RCFE License
- License No. 198603692
- Licensed capacity
- 6 residents
We would love to meet your family
Located at 700 N Grand Ave, Glendora, CA 91741. Reach out any time to learn more or talk about care.