Free help for Long Beach families
Nobody plans for this. We help you get it right.
We are a local senior placement agency in Long Beach. We help families find assisted living, memory care and board and care homes that match your parent's care needs, your budget, and how often you want to visit. We know these homes, we come to the tours, and it costs your family nothing.
Let's start with a warm hello
Share your name and best number, and a local advisor can follow up whenever you are ready.
No cost to families. Your information stays private.
Sometimes three weeks, more often three days
How this actually goes
Nobody plans for this. Most families reach us with a discharge date already set, a list of names they cannot rank, and a sibling on speakerphone in another state.
Tell us what happened
Most of these calls start in a hospital corridor, or in a parent's kitchen the day after a fall. We need three things from you: what care is needed, which part of town works, and how many days you actually have.
We cut the list down out loud
A discharge planner hands you a photocopied sheet with no order to it. We go through it with you and say which homes have a bed this week, which will take your father as he is right now, and which we would not use ourselves.
You visit two, not ten
For a six bed house that means standing in the living room on a weekday afternoon, seeing who is awake and who is doing the cooking. We come with you and ask the questions that are awkward to ask about your own mother.
The words on the discharge sheet, translated
Which of these you actually need
Board and care, assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing get used as if they are the same thing. They are four different licences with four different staffing rules, and choosing the wrong one means moving your parent a second time, which is the one thing everybody is trying to avoid. Start with whichever line below sounds closest.
Licensed Care Homes
The full state register for Long Beach and nearby, named, with bed counts and licence numbers.
Learn more→Assisted Living Placement
How to choose between a house of six and a building of two hundred, and what to ask before signing.
Learn more→Assisted Living Facilities
The large end of the Long Beach market is a finite list. Here is how to work through it.
Learn more→Senior Living Advisors
How placement advisors get paid, and six questions to ask before you trust one.
Learn more→Memory Care Placement
What gets a parent turned down, what secured actually means, and when to visit.
Learn more→Board & Care Homes
Six beds, one caregiver, somebody's old house. What that buys you and where it falls down.
Learn more→Independent Living
Housing, not licensed care. The difference decides whether you move a parent twice.
Learn more→Nursing Home Placement
A different licence entirely. What to ask in the two days after a hospital calls.
Learn more→Senior Care Referral
Who pays for a referral, what that does to it, and when you should not call us.
Learn more→Costs & Benefits
How each kind of home builds a price, the bills nobody mentions, and where veterans start.
Learn more→Straight off the state licence register
Where the homes actually are
Supply in this city is lopsided, and it is better to know that before you promise your father he can stay in his own neighbourhood. Here is every licensed home the state lists inside Long Beach, sorted by ZIP code.
Long Beach is also not an island. Cross the line into Carson, Lakewood, Cerritos or Norwalk and the field opens up: 159 licensed homes across 10 cities in the Gateway Cities, holding 4,328 licensed beds between them. Counting by city, that is Carson 28, Cerritos 21, Norwalk 18, Lakewood 12, Downey 11, Bellflower 9, Compton 7, Artesia 2, Paramount 1.
We did not pick any of these and we are not paid to list them. It is simply what exists, which is where a search should start.
Licensed homes inside Long Beach
- 90815Los Altos, Park Estates and the streets by El Dorado Park17
- 90807Bixby Knolls, California Heights and Los Cerritos14
- 90808Carson Park, Plaza and the blocks along the Lakewood line9
- 90802Downtown, Alamitos Beach and the East Village2
- 90806Wrigley and the streets around Long Beach Memorial2
- 90813central Long Beach, near St. Mary2
- 90803Belmont Shore, Belmont Heights and Naples1
- 90804Zaferia and Rose Park1
- 90805North Long Beach1
- 90810the Westside, out toward the Carson line1
50 homes, 2,127 licensed beds. The largest single home in Long Beach is licensed for 300. The smallest are licensed for six, and their street addresses are not ours to publish.
Why local matters more than it sounds
A national website can read you the same list. What it cannot tell you is that the six bed home on a cul-de-sac in Los Altos has an owner who sleeps there, that the place off Atlantic fills its openings before they are ever advertised, or that the home you liked in Bixby Knolls quietly does not do two person transfers.
We work the same few square miles every week. We know which homes near Long Beach Memorial will take someone straight off a discharge unit, which ones want a week of notice, and which owners answer their own phone on a Saturday.
There is never a cost to your family. Communities pay us when a placement works out. That gives us an obvious reason to want you to move someone, and the only honest answer to it is this: we turn down homes regularly, and we will say so plainly when the right call is a caregiver at home rather than a move at all.
- Homes with a real opening this week, not a brochure
- Which of the 11 larger communities price care in tiers, and what moves someone up a tier
- Veterans benefits, which come up constantly in a city that built and berthed ships
- A straight answer when the right move is no move
Tell us the discharge date and we will work backwards from it
A name and a number is enough to start. If you are standing in a hallway at the hospital right now, call instead. That is faster.