Moving her to Denver. My mom is 73 and has had a couple strokes over the past 7 years.. she is experiencing the beginning stages of dementia... walking is difficult and (i believe) she has become lazy and uninterested in improving due to having 24 home care for the last 8 months... she doesn't eat properly and rarely exercises... I honestly don't know where to begin once we get her home... when choosing a topic in the next section, about 7-10 things applied but my first step is to find her a doctor and order her a bed... we will be in the south Denver area.
Good luck. Expect to center your life around her life, caregiving is labor intensive.
If you don't have POA for medical and financial issues, get those in place as well. You will also need to set up a new bank account. The bank my parents have their money deposited in from pension and SS will even come to their apartment if necessary for documents to be signed. Same with their attorney.
I have been caregiver for my elderly parents (now 95 and 99) for over five years. While they don't live with us but live in senior housing with assistance, all of these things had to be accomplished right after their move. And I had to set up a filing system to keep track of everything. I have two multi-slot folders, one for financial and one for medical. I keep my POAs in each folder so if I have to do any transactions (like emergency room visits), I have the paperwork I need with me.
Hope this all helps you get started on this road. It is very demanding. Be sure to plan time for yourself in all this. As a friend recently pointed out, I am actually care-giver for four people: my parents, my husband (who has cancer), and me. The bottom line is I have to take good care of me so I can do everything else. So take good care of you, too.
You have a lot to learn about dementia. start by reading Jennifer Ghent-Fuller's paper "Understanding the Dementia Experience"
You can also look up Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), which is an excellent choice for people with dementia. If you look here, you'll see there are 3 programs in Colorado:
http://www.npaonline.org/custom/programsearch.asp?id=209&title=Find_PACE_Programs
Lastly, I highly recommend you come to your mother's first primary care visit with her laboratory results, radiology results, and as many former records as you can. (You'll probably have to request these from her previous PCP.) Otherwise, it's very common for primary care doctors to NOT have past records available when they first see a new patient, which means they won't provide as much help during that first visit...if they don't have the right information at that first visit, it can take weeks to months for them to get up to speed on your mother's health situation...and that could delay her getting the care she needs now.
good luck!