Page 8 of Best Independent Living in California

Overview of Westmont of Encinitas

Ideally situated in a quiet neighborhood of Encinitas, California, Westmont of Encinitas is a blissful retreat that offers assisted living and independent living. With its commitment to improving residents’ welfare, the community provides various one-bedroom and two-bedroom floor plans designed to foster comfort and familiarity. The community boasts its exclusive Inspired Retirement Living to provide the highest quality of care and support for residents to flourish and live to their potential.

Gain easy access to local shopping areas and recreation sites while enjoying various onsite activities, promoting a sense of belongingness, and retaining an active lifestyle. Meals can be enjoyed at your pace in different dining venues like the bistro. Medication management, incontinence care, and therapy services are also provided, ensuring convenience like no other. Amenities include an indoor heated pool, a fitness center, a library, and plenty of pet-friendly spaces.

Live comfortably and safely with Atria Tamalpais Creek located in Tamalpais Avenue, Novato, CA. The community offers assisted living, independent living, and memory care. With homey and spacious floor plans including studio and one-bedroom apartments equipped with kitchens or kitchenettes and individual thermostat controls, the community ensures relaxation and security. Focusing on the seniors’ independence and individuality, Atria Tamalpais Creek ensures that they receive proper care and assistance that perfectly matches their needs and preferences.

Atria Tamalpais Creek is committed to giving its residents a better quality of life, encouraging them to remain active and connected. The community serves three chef-prepared healthy and delicious meals daily to ensure that residents’ dietary needs are satisfied. With pet-friendly amenities including a courtyard, an outdoor dining space, grill, and fireplace, a library, a media room, a movie theater, a fitness center, a salon and spa, a game room, computers, a resident garden, a peaceful patio, and serene walking paths, the community ensures the enjoyment and wellness of its residents.

Overview of Carlton Senior Living San Jose

Carlton Senior Living San Jose offers independent living, assisted living, and memory care in San Jose, CA. Independent living provides a private home with community services and no daily care, while assisted living includes help with tasks such as dressing, bathing, and taking medication.

Memory care is provided in a secured setting with supervision for a resident who may be at risk of wandering. Having all three care levels in one community can suit someone whose needs may grow over time.

The community has 183 beds and offers alcove, one bedroom, and two bedroom layouts. A one bedroom gives one resident private living space, while a two bedroom can accommodate a couple moving together or someone who wants a companion. Pets are allowed, so a resident can continue living with a pet.

The starting price is $5,795 per month. Because no care level rate is specified, that figure is a general starting point rather than a separate price for each type of care.

Transportation, rehabilitation services, respite care, and short term rehabilitation are available, giving families options for transportation, temporary stays, and recovery focused support. The area has a Walk Score of 35 and is car dependent, so most errands require a car or a ride rather than walking to nearby services.

Shantela Yadao serves as administrator, and Carlton Senior Living operates the community. The range of care, secured memory care, and available temporary and rehabilitation services may make this a fit for someone who needs support now or whose care needs are likely to change over time.

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Starting Price $5,795/Month Pricing updated on October 7th, 2026

Courtyard Terrace is an independent living community in Sacramento, California. Independent living provides private living with community services rather than daily care, so it suits adults who can manage personal care without routine assistance. With 40 beds, the community has a smaller setting where staff and residents get to know each other.

Residents can choose one bedroom or two bedroom apartments, with the larger layout suiting a couple moving together. A recreation room provides an indoor space for activities, while the private courtyard offers outdoor space within the community. The area has a Walk Score of 75, making it very walkable, with most errands possible on foot, so a resident who no longer drives can still get out independently. Magda Luis serves as administrator, and Cimino Care Mangement operates the community.

Overview of Heritage on the Marina, a CCRC

Heritage on the Marina is a continuing care retirement community in San Francisco, California, with 109 beds. It offers independent living, providing a private residence and community services rather than daily care, which can suit someone who manages personal tasks independently.

Mary Linde administers the community. Its Health & Wellness program gives residents a named focus for health-related community activities, and the pet-friendly policy allows residents to keep pets. A Walk Score of 96 places the area in the walker’s paradise range, so daily errands do not require a car and a resident who no longer drives can still get out independently.

Overview of Belmont Village Senior Living Albany

Belmont Village Senior Living Albany has its base in Albany, CA, and offers independent living, assisted living, and memory care. Independent living adds community services to private life, without daily care. The next level, assisted living, looks after everyday tasks, bathing, dressing, and medication, among others, with the apartment still the resident’s.

Memory care supervises any resident who could wander, and the setting itself is secured. Needs that grow can be met by moving through all three, not by packing up for another community.

Its 225 beds are split among studio and one-bedroom homes, and a studio holds one resident on their own. Residents can live with their pets. Walk Score gives the area a 93, a walker’s paradise, where daily errands don’t need a car and a non-driver still gets around. Transportation services are on offer too.

A patio, a garden, and a fitness center give residents room to exercise and to spend time outdoors. Rehabilitation services are available in the community. Belmont Village Berkeley LLC and Belmont Three LLC operate the community together, and Jesus Gonzalez Camarillo is the administrator. Memory care residents can take part in the Circle of Friends memory care program.

Overview of Carlton Senior Living Fremont

Carlton Senior Living Fremont offers independent living and assisted living in Fremont, CA. Independent living provides a private home with community services and no daily care, while assisted living adds help with dressing, bathing, medication, and other daily tasks while the resident keeps a private apartment.

Having both levels in one community may suit someone whose needs could grow over time and who wants to remain in the same community. The community has 128 beds, with alcove, one bedroom, and two bedroom layouts; a two bedroom arrangement can work for a couple moving together.

The starting price is $4,495, although the care level connected to that rate is not specified. Carlton Senior Living operates the community, and Gianni Amari serves as administrator.

Located in the Central District, the community has a Walk Score of 90 out of 100, in the walker’s paradise band, so daily errands do not require a car and a resident who no longer drives can still reach nearby shops and services on foot. Pets are allowed, and restaurant style dining provides healthy and delicious meals, while available transportation offers another way to get to activities and errands.

Events and Entertainment and Health & Wellness programs give residents organized activities to join. Respite care supports a short stay when a usual caregiver needs to travel or recover, and short term rehabilitation provides a temporary, recovery focused stay.

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Starting Price $4,495/Month Pricing updated on February 13th, 2026

Overview of Fairwinds – Woodwark Park

Fairwinds Woodward Park is an independent living and assisted living community where both options are guaranteed to be comfortable for residents to maintain their individuality and freedom. Residents in the community are cared for by ensuring that the holistic wellness of each resident is met. The community gives off an engaging and enriching environment where the professional care staff is attentive and ready to go above and beyond for the residents. Fairwinds has celebrated and understood the importance of growth by ensuring seniors get the best possible care and limitless opportunities during their stay. 

The lifestyle at Fairwinds is inspired by resort-style stay– leisure is the center of senior wellness. Community features include restaurant-style dining experiences curated by an in-house chef to take PrimeFit Wellness classes, a cafe, a private dining room, a salon and barbershop, transportation, guest parking, and a courtyard with outdoor seating. 

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Starting Price $3,185/Month Pricing updated on October 7th, 2026

Overview of Carlton Senior Living Pleasant Hill – Martinez

Carlton Senior Living Pleasant Hill – Martinez is an outstanding senior living community in Contra Costa County, Pleasant Hill, CA. offering independent living and assisted living. The community guarantees residents’ safety and security with 24-hour team members availability and emergency call system. Residents are free from the common worries of daily living with housekeeping, cleaning, laundry, maintenance, and utilities handled by a dedicated team within the community.

There’s always something going on with fitness classes, live music, and educational seminars, regularly conducted by the community. Convenient access to onsite physical therapy and invigorating fitness programs for all abilities, ensure residents are always on top of their health and wellness. Exquisite restaurant-style dining is made possible by a culinary team that carefully prepares delicious and health conscious meals.

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Starting Price $5,295/Month Pricing updated on October 7th, 2026

Casa De Modesto is a pet-friendly senior living community located in Modesto, CA, providing assisted living and memory care services. This exemplary senior living community offers studio-type, and one-to-two bedroom accommodations that are handicap accessible, and features wheelchair accessible showers. Part of the services they provide in their different levels of care include incontinence care and diabetic care, as well as round-the-clock availability of staff for supervision as well as assistance.

Casa De Modesto boasts of their well thought amenities, designed specifically to promote physical and mental activity, contributing to the residents overall health and well being. Some of their amenities include indoor and outdoor common areas and walking paths, grooming services, fitness center, and game room. The community also employs wander guards, providing an additional layer of security to the already enclosed premises.