Norma J's Home for the Elderly III
In a six-bed home that form matters even more than usual, because there is no waiting list to sit on. When one of six beds opens, it goes to the family whose paperwork is already complete. Ask your parent's doctor for the form at the first conversation, not after you have chosen a house.
Norma J's Home for the Elderly III is licensed for 6 residents at 118 W Columbia Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, under California licence number 565850328. State licensing records list Tiede Senior Care, Inc. as the licensee and Loretta Louise Tiede as administrator of record, with the licence first issued in January 2023.
What a Six-Bed Board and Care Home Actually Is
Legally, the same thing as a 90-bed community. Both hold a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly licence from California, with the same regulations behind it. The difference is the building and the number of people in it.
In practice a board and care home is a house on a residential street, converted for six older adults, with staff who cook, help with bathing and dressing, hand out medications and sit in the living room in the evening. There is no lobby, no activities director and no second dining room.
Board and Care or a Large Community reads the licence behind a Conejo Valley home and explains what the licence does and does not promise. It is the piece worth reading before you compare a house on Columbia Road with a campus off the 101.
One detail from the state record is worth noticing here. Tiede Senior Care is listed as the licensee of three separate six-bed homes in Thousand Oaks, two of them on West Columbia Road. A family running several small houses nearby can often move a resident between them as needs change.
Who a Small Home Suits, and Who It Does Not
Six residents suit someone who is overwhelmed by crowds, noise and corridors. A parent who has stopped going to the dining room in a larger community because it is too loud is often a different person at a table of six.
It also suits someone who needs consistent faces. With this many residents the same two or three caregivers do most of the shifts, which matters enormously for a person who no longer retains new names and reads safety from familiarity instead.
It suits other people less well. Someone who still drives, still joins clubs and wants a gym, a calendar of outings and fifty people to choose company from will find a six-bed house small within a month. That is a real mismatch, not a preference to talk someone out of.
How Doctors and Specialists Reach Residents
A board and care home provides custodial care, not medical care, so every appointment is still somebody's drive. In a six-bed house there is no transport service and usually no staff member who can leave for two hours.
Visits that come to the house solve that. A provider directory lists primary care and medical specialists who see residents inside licensed care homes, which covers routine follow-ups, medication reviews and the state forms that need a physician's signature.
Eye care is the one families most often let slide, and it is the one that quietly causes falls. Viktoria Goldenberg, OD provides optometry including in-home and assisted-living eye exams across Thousand Oaks and the wider Conejo Valley, in English, Spanish and Russian.
For emergencies, Los Robles Regional Medical Center is at 215 W Janss Road in Thousand Oaks, roughly a mile and a half from Columbia Road, with a 24/7 emergency department and Level II trauma designation. It is the hospital a 911 call from this address will usually reach.
Memory Care and Short Stays in a Six-Bed Home
Small homes frequently accept residents with dementia, but accepting is not the same as being set up for it. Ask specifically whether this home holds a dementia care waiver and whether exterior doors are alarmed, because both are separate from the basic licence.
Timing is the harder question. Memory Care in Thousand Oaks covers when a move becomes necessary rather than merely sensible, which is usually the decision families delay longest and regret most.
Short stays are worth asking about too. Respite Care in Thousand Oaks explains what a short stay covers and how families use one, either to get through a caregiver's surgery or as a trial run before committing to a permanent move.
What Families Pay For
Board and care homes usually quote one monthly rate covering room, board and personal care, with extra charges layered on for higher needs. Ask for the rate sheet in writing and ask what triggers a move to the next level.
The Medicaid question comes next in almost every conversation. A KFF issue brief published in March 2025 on what services Medicaid covers in assisted living facilities found that 41 of the 47 responding states cover services provided in assisted living facilities through at least one Medicaid home care program, and that 34 states cover personal care there.
Protection matters as much as coverage. That brief found 25 of the 47 responding states have additional eviction protections for Medicaid enrollees who become unable to pay, which is the risk families worry about once private savings start to run down.
Room and board is the gap to plan around. Medicaid programs generally pay for care services rather than the rent portion, so the monthly figure never disappears entirely even when a programme does start contributing.
The Streets Around 118 West Columbia Road
This is a quiet residential pocket of Thousand Oaks, which is most of the appeal. Columbia Road is a street of houses rather than a commercial strip, so the setting looks like a neighbourhood instead of an institution.
For visits that need somewhere to go, Conejo Creek North Park is at 1379 East Janss Road, 27 acres of creekside parkland that also holds the Thousand Oaks Library, the Teen Center and the Goebel Adult Center. Flat paths and shade make it manageable with a walker or a wheelchair.
For county help, the Ventura County Area Agency on Aging is at 4651 Telephone Road in Ventura and reachable on (805) 477-7300. It is the entry point for benefits counselling, meal programmes and the local Long-Term Care Ombudsman.
A Reasonable Next Step
Visit twice, and make one of those visits unannounced in the late afternoon. Afternoons and evenings are when small homes are thinnest on staff, and that is the picture you actually want before you sign anything.
How to Choose the Right Assisted Living Home lists what to ask on a tour and how to read the answers. Bring it printed, because nobody remembers their own questions while being walked through someone's living room.
If you are weighing several six-bed homes at once, a placement agency already knows which have beds this month and which hold dementia waivers. The directory lists placement and referral services, and most are paid by the home rather than by the family.
Contact and Licensing Details
Confirm every line of this with the home and with the state before you act on it. Capacity, administrator and licence status can all change between one month and the next.
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Detail |
Current record |
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Facility name |
Norma J's Home for the Elderly III, The |
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Address |
118 W Columbia Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 |
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California licence number |
565850328 |
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Licensee |
Tiede Senior Care, Inc. |
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Administrator of record |
Loretta Louise Tiede |
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Licensed capacity |
6 residents |
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Licence status |
Licensed |
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Licence first issued |
23 January 2023 |
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Telephone |
(805) 870-4886 |
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Website |
No website confirmed for this facility |
Sources Used
Conejo Creek North Park – Conejo Recreation and Park District
Ventura – California Department of Aging
What Services Does Medicaid Cover in Assisted Living Facilities? – KFF (2025)
Written by Sofiia Puhach
October 5, 2026
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