Senior Placement Services

A senior placement service, sometimes called assisted living placement, helps a family find and secure the right long-term setting for an older adult, most often an assisted living community or a smaller board and care home. Ours covers the needs assessment, the licensing record on every candidate, visits to the buildings, a short list, the tours, the move-in paperwork and the settling-in afterwards.

Nothing. There is no fee to the family and no charge for the assessment, the visits or the reports. We are paid a referral fee by the home your parent moves into, usually calculated against the first month’s rent. That is how nearly every placement service in California works, and we would rather you heard it from us than found it out later. It does not add anything to what you pay the home.

It is the right question to ask, and the honest answer is that you should not take our word for it. So we do three things you can check. We pull the state licensing record on every home we consider and give it to you, good or bad, before you tour. We only recommend homes that score well on complaints and audit results. And we will tell you, if you ask, what we are paid on any home we have recommended.

Yes, and we would rather you did. The California Department of Social Services publishes the licensing file for every assisted living community and board and care home through its Community Care Facility search, including inspection visits, complaint investigations and citations. We pull those pages for you because most families do not know they exist, not because they are ours to hold. Check ours against the state’s and tell us if we have missed something.

Our first goal is to help you thrive at home. When more support at home would genuinely solve it for another year or two, we tell you that. And when the better situational or financial choice is a move to an assisted living or board and care home, we tell you that too. Every recommendation is an extension of our reputation, so we take each one seriously, in whichever direction it points.

Assisted living communities are larger, apartment-style settings with communal dining and activities, usually dozens to hundreds of residents. Board and care homes are ordinary houses licensed for about six residents, with a higher caregiver-to-resident ratio and a quieter, family-style feel. Cost, atmosphere and care intensity differ enough that many families change their minds after touring both, which is exactly why we tour both.

Yes. With a discharge clock running we can pull licensing records the same day and have a checked shortlist within a few days, with the homes visited rather than picked off a printout. If the timing is still too tight to choose well, we can put interim home care in place so the decision is made properly rather than at speed.

That is a large part of what we do. Adult children in another state need someone local who has actually stood in the building. We visit, we photograph, we walk you through on a video call, we send the licensing records, and you decide with real information instead of a website ranking. If you want us to keep visiting after the move, we will.

The same territory as our home care: Whittier and the Gateway Cities, the San Gabriel Valley, and Orange County from La Habra down to south county. These are communities where we already work daily, so the homes we recommend are ones we know, not ones we found when you called.

Allow two to four weeks to assess, visit properly and negotiate, and longer if your parent needs time to come to terms with the move, which is normal and worth respecting. Call (562) 448-3854 and we will scope it honestly on the first call.