What kind of care are you looking at
Start here if you are still working out what your parent actually needs.
- Assisted Living Placement
Personal help comparing assisted living communities that fit care, location, and budget.
- Assisted Living Facilities
Compare licensed assisted living facilities across Los Angeles County.
- Senior Living Advisors
One-on-one guidance from a local advisor, from first questions to move-in day.
- Memory Care Placement
Specialized dementia and Alzheimer's care in secure, supportive communities.
- Board & Care Homes
Licensed residential care homes with a smaller, quieter setting.
- Independent Living
Active, low-maintenance communities for seniors who value their independence.
- Nursing Home Placement
Support finding skilled nursing and long-term care, plus admissions help.
- Senior Care Referral
A free referral service connecting families to senior care providers. The community pays the fee, never the family.
- Costs & Benefits
Understand what care costs and how to pay, including VA benefits for veterans.
Where you are looking
Two different sets of pages, and it is worth a moment to pick the right one.
Advice for one part of the county
12 areas, one page each. What the supply nearby is like, what tends to be full, and where families widen the search when the first choice does not work out.
- Assisted Living in Santa Monica
Assisted living, memory care, and board and care homes in Santa Monica and across the surrounding Westside.
- Assisted Living in Pasadena
Assisted living in Pasadena, from historic communities to newer memory care, plus board and care homes across the San Gabriel Valley.
- Assisted Living in Sherman Oaks
Assisted living along Ventura Boulevard, plus one of the densest supplies of six bed board and care homes in the county.
- Assisted Living in Glendale
Assisted living and memory care in Glendale, including board and care homes with Armenian speaking caregivers.
- Assisted Living in Burbank
Assisted living and board and care near Burbank, where a thin local supply means widening into Toluca Lake, North Hollywood, and Glendale.
- Assisted Living in Long Beach
Assisted living across one of the widest price ranges in the county, plus real Medi-Cal Assisted Living Waiver participation.
- Assisted Living in Torrance
Assisted living and board and care in Torrance, with deep skilled nursing coverage and culturally matched options across the South Bay.
- Assisted Living in Woodland Hills
Assisted living near Warner Center, plus a high density of licensed six bed board and care homes across the west Valley.
- Assisted Living in Encino
Assisted living along Ventura Boulevard and board and care homes in Encino, including kosher and Persian friendly kitchens.
- Assisted Living in Culver City
Assisted living near Culver City, where limited local beds send the practical search through Mar Vista, Palms, and Westchester.
- Assisted Living in West Los Angeles
Assisted living in Westwood, Sawtelle, Rancho Park, Mar Vista, and Palms, where cost and waitlists are the real constraints.
- Assisted Living in Downey
Assisted living and board and care in Downey, some of the most affordable licensed care in the county, with Spanish speaking homes.
What the state license file listed, city by city
17 cities, one page each, built from California's licensing file rather than from anyone's sales list. Each page names homes the state recorded in that city, with the capacity and the license number the file held against them in the extract dated May 25, 2025. None of it is a rating, a recommendation, or an inspection result, and a license can change after an extract date.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Burbank
The 27 homes the state listed as licensed in Burbank, 21 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 4 ZIP codes.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Carson
The 28 homes the state listed as licensed in Carson, 27 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 23 of them in ZIP code 90745.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Chatsworth
The 25 homes the state listed as licensed in Chatsworth, 24 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 25 of them in ZIP code 91311.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Glendale, California
The 30 homes the state listed as licensed in Glendale, California, 21 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 9 ZIP codes.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Granada Hills
The 62 homes the state listed as licensed in Granada Hills, 61 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, and 62 of them in ZIP code 91344.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Long Beach
The 50 homes the state listed as licensed in Long Beach, 38 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 88 percent of the 2,127 licensed beds in the 11 homes recorded at 25 beds or more.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Los Angeles
The 143 homes the state filed under the city name Los Angeles, 99 of them recorded at six beds or fewer and 40 at 25 beds or more, across 39 ZIP codes.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in North Hollywood
The 52 homes the state listed as licensed in North Hollywood, 50 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 34 of them in ZIP code 91605.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Northridge
The 74 homes the state listed as licensed in Northridge, 69 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, on residential streets across 4 ZIP codes.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Pasadena
The 32 homes the state listed as licensed in Pasadena, including 17 recorded at six beds or fewer and 14 at 25 beds or more.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in San Pedro
The 9 homes the state listed as licensed in San Pedro, 7 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 2 ZIP codes.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Santa Clarita
The 18 homes the state listed as licensed under the name Santa Clarita, spread across 6 ZIP codes, plus the valley supply the same file recorded under its older neighborhood names.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Santa Monica
The 15 homes the state listed as licensed in Santa Monica, where 6 homes recorded at 25 beds or more hold 93 percent of the 696 licensed beds.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Sherman Oaks
The 19 homes the state listed as licensed in Sherman Oaks, 17 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 4 ZIP codes.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Torrance
The 90 homes the state listed as licensed in Torrance, 82 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 5 ZIP codes of the South Bay grid.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Van Nuys
The 51 homes the state listed as licensed in Van Nuys, 47 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 26 of them in ZIP code 91405.
- Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Woodland Hills
The 34 homes the state listed as licensed in Woodland Hills, 28 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, where 89 percent of the 1,554 licensed beds sit in the 6 homes recorded at 25 beds or more.
What you are trying to work out
Grouped by the question, because that is what families arrive with.
Is it time, and how fast do we have to move
- When Is It Time for Memory Care? Signs Families Look For
The safety patterns, caregiver limits, and turning points that lead families to move a parent into memory care.
- Hospital Discharge and Senior Placement in Los Angeles: What to Do in 72 Hours
An hour by hour plan for families told a parent cannot go home, including rehab versus residential care and your appeal rights.
Which kind of place fits, and how to tell a good one
- Senior Housing in Los Angeles: A Guide to Every Option
Independent living, assisted living, board and care, memory care, and skilled nursing compared, with typical Los Angeles costs and who each one fits.
- Board and Care vs Assisted Living in Los Angeles: How to Choose
Both are licensed as RCFEs in California. Compare size, staffing, setting, and cost to see which one fits your parent.
- Questions to Ask Assisted Living Communities in Los Angeles
The questions that predict how the next year goes: overnight staffing, the true monthly cost, the care ceiling, and the licensing record.
How anyone actually pays for it
- Low-Income Assisted Living in Los Angeles: What Is Actually Available
A straight answer about paying for care on a small income, covering the Assisted Living Waiver, SSI board and care homes, and where families get free help.
- The Assisted Living Waiver Program: What It Covers and Who Qualifies
What the ALW covers, who generally qualifies, how enrollment works through a Care Coordination Agency, and what the waiting list means.
- VA Aid and Attendance: How VA Benefits Help Pay for Assisted Living
How this increased VA pension works for wartime veterans and surviving spouses who need help with daily activities.
Whether the person helping you is on your side
- How Do Senior Placement Agencies Get Paid?
How referral fees work, the conflict of interest the free model creates, and the questions that protect your family.
- Does a Senior Placement Agency Fee Change Your Rate?
The home pays the referral fee, not your family, and the rate sheet reads the same whether you walk in alone or arrive with an advisor. What that fee is worth, and how to check your own quote instead of taking anyone's word for it.
- Six Questions to Ask a Senior Placement Agency, Including Us
Six questions that settle how an agency is paid, which homes it will never show you, and what happens to your phone number. Answered here about this agency, including the parts we would rather skip.
Everything else we have written
- What is respite care, and when should you use it?
A short stay in a licensed home so a caregiver can stop, and the cheapest way to find out whether a place works.
- Will my parent's long term care insurance pay for assisted living?
The four or five lines inside the policy that decide it, and where to find each one tonight.
- Assisted living or a nursing home: which one does your parent actually need?
Two different licenses, two different regulators, and two very different answers on who pays.
- Does Medicare Pay for Assisted Living?
No, and the rehab stay families count on ends sooner than they expect. What Medicare does cover instead.
- Does Medicaid Pay for Assisted Living in California?
Generally not for room and board, with one exception that matters, and why skilled nursing is treated differently.
The records behind all of it
For when you would rather check something yourself than take anyone's word for it.
- Residential care homes in Los Angeles County, city by city
What the state register holds for the whole county, and where the homes actually are.
- What is an RCFE, and what does that license actually allow?
The four letters on the certificate, what the license lets a home do, and the line it cannot cross.
- How to Check an RCFE License in California Before You Move In
How to look up a facility's license status and inspection and complaint history, and what the record does and does not tell you.
- What a care home license does not tell you
The state record tells you a license is current and who was cited for what. It cannot tell you who is awake at three in the morning, so here is what to ask the administrator for the rest.
Us, and the small print
- Free senior placement help across Los Angeles County
The starting point. What we help families find, the areas we cover, and a way to reach an advisor today.
- What a senior placement agency does, and how this one is paid
The process from first call to move-in, the referral fee that makes it free to families, and the things we do not do.
- Reach an advisor about your own situation
A phone number, a form, and what happens after you send one.
- What happens to the details you give us
What the site collects, how it is used, who it is shared with, and how to ask for it to be deleted.
- Using this site with a screen reader or a keyboard
The standard the site works to, the limitations we know about, and how to reach a person by phone instead.
If the thing you came for is not on this page, call us at (323) 675-2991 and describe the situation out loud. That is usually quicker than finding the right page.