The library
Every guide, in one place
All free, no signup, and every number sourced from state licensing data or published surveys, with a date stamp on anything that can go stale.
Start here
- How this works, including exactly how a free service gets paid
- Board-and-care vs assisted living: how to actually choose
- Board-and-care homes: Sacramento is the small-home capital of California
Money
- What senior living actually costs in Sacramento
- How families actually pay: LTC insurance, VA Aid and Attendance, and the ALW
Tools for the search
- The touring checklist, plus how to read a California inspection record
- Questions to ask on a memory care tour
- Hospital discharge to assisted living: the one-week playbook
Neighborhood guides
Built from California licensing data, refreshed quarterly. Counts as of June 2026.
- Carmichael (83 licensed facilities, 75 of them six-bed homes: one of the densest small-home concentrations in California)
- Roseville (143 facilities: Placer's deepest market, small homes plus real big-community capacity)
- Elk Grove (101 facilities, 93 of them homes: the south county hub)
More neighborhoods coming: Fair Oaks, Folsom, Orangevale, Rocklin, and the rest of the region.