Expert guides about care types in California from Brevy Care.
A California assisted living or board-and-care home must refund part of a large move-in fee if your parent leaves within the first three months, and all of it in a few narrower cases.
Figuring out how to pay for assisted living in California is one of the hardest money problems a family faces, because the bill is large and no single program covers all of it.
Deciding between memory care and a nursing home for a parent with dementia in California is one of the hardest calls a family makes.
If you're weighing assisted living and memory care in California for a parent losing memory, the choice turns on whether dementia has made an ordinary setting unsafe for them.
If you're weighing assisted living vs. a nursing home in California for a parent, the choice really turns on two things: the level of care they need, and who's going to pay for it.
California sits above the national line for senior care in nearly every setting.
In California, home care and home health are not the same service, and the payer is entirely different depending on which one your family needs.
In California, memory care isn't its own license: the state regulates it as care in a Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE), the same license that covers assisted living.
Few decisions land harder on a California family than moving a parent into a nursing home, and few cost more.
If you're pricing assisted living in California for a parent, the first surprise is that the state doesn't license anything by that name.