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Info below is compiled from the CA Dept. of Social Services (CDSS), senior community websites & trusted data sources such as Walk Score & BBB.

Communities are listed from highest-ranked to lowest-ranked based on our methodology.

Care Types in This Table AL (Assisted Living): Housing with help for daily activities like bathing, dressing, and medication, without 24-hour skilled nursing. MC (Memory Care): Secured, specialized care for people living with Alzheimer's or dementia. RC (Respite Care): Short-term temporary care that gives family caregivers a break. RESC (Residential Care): Personal care and daily-living support in a smaller, more intimate residential setting. IL (Independent Living): Community living with dining, activities, and transportation for active seniors who need little personal care. HC (Home Care): Professional care delivered in the person's own home, from companionship to skilled nursing. PC (Palliative Care): Comfort-focused care for serious illness at any stage, including alongside curative treatment. SC (Senior Communities):
City and state of the facility. Used for mapping and state-average comparisons.
Licensed bed capacity (maximum allowed). Not the same as how many beds are currently filled.
A 0–100 score of a facility's regulatory inspection record, shown as a letter and compared with other facilities of the same kind in the same state. This is a proprietary Assisted Living Magazine grade. It is not a government rating. A dash means we have no inspection data for that facility.
Indicates whether residents are allowed to have pets in the facility.
Third-party neighborhood walkability score (0–100). Convenience/context metric, not a healthcare quality measure.
Count of regulatory inspections in the reporting window. Higher volume can reflect more oversight visits, complaint-driven surveys, or routine licensure cycles.
Visits or investigations linked to complaints, as counted in the state record (may differ from routine annual surveys).
Count of California state "Type A" citations — the state's most serious citation category (immediate or serious harm to residents), from California state inspection data.
Number of years the company has been in operation.
Reported or derived occupancy for the facility—typically how fully licensed capacity is utilized. Compare across peers in the same market.
Better Business Bureau grade for the operating company. Reflects complaint handling and business practices, not clinical care quality.
Name of the licensed owner, operator, or managing entity as filed with the state. Useful for grouping facilities under the same organization.
Housing or bed configuration options (e.g. studio, shared), often from facility-reported amenities and licensing details.
The Bluffs at Hamilton Hill
SC
AL
MC
Novato
95D+Yes 42 4723134 83.2% -Hamilton Hill I, LLC: Msl Community Management LLCStudio / 1 Bed / 2 Bed
Madonna Gardens Assisted Living & Memory Care
SC
AL
MC
RESC
Salinas (South Salinas)
88C-Yes 73 261579 80.7% -Sh 2 Salinas Opco LLC And Crfld Management, LLC-
Greenhaven Place
SC
AL
IL
Sacramento (Southwestern Sacramento)
48C-Yes 69 2713117 89.6% -Welltower Pegasus Tenant LLC And Psl Assocaites LLC-
Apple Ridge Assisted Living
SC
AL
MC
Sacramento (Arden-Arcade)
94C-No 49 60402053 83.0% -Apple Ridge Assisted Living, LLC-
Leisure Garden Senior Assisted Living Facility
SC
AL
RESC
West Lancaster
157CNo 80 11384145 80.3% ---
Santa Barbara Memory Care
SC
AL
MC
RC
Santa Barbara (Oak Park)
36D-Yes 76 43242315 44.4% A+Pac Coast Inc., Pacifica Coast LP, And Santa Barbara Mgr1 Bed / 2 Bed
Sage Mountain Senior Living
SC
AL
MC
RC
Newbury Park
145D-Yes 14 8553317 70.3% A+Sage Mountain Sr. Housing Partners And Agemark MgmtStudio / 1 Bed / 2 Bed
A Loving Living Home Care
SC
AL
HC
PC
RC
Vacaville
6D+Yes 47 135328 66.7% A+Lovelyn G Hojilla-
Siebenthal Elder Care Home
SC
AL
MC
RESC
Sacramento (Glen Ivy)
6D-Yes 19 30111113 100.0% -Robert & Ermelinda SiebenthalPrivate / Semi-private Rooms
Ambassadors Care Home
SC
AL
Antioch
6D-Yes 72 13868 66.7% -Ambassadors Of Health Management LLCSuite
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The Bluffs at Hamilton Hill

1 Hamilton Hill Dr, Novato, CA 94949
Overview of The Bluffs at Hamilton Hill

Discover the attentive care and warmth of The Bluffs at Hamilton Hill, situated in Novato, CA, where supportive services and a vibrant and compassionate environment come together for a truly enriching lifestyle. This community offers a wide range of services, including assisted living and memory care, with personalized support tailored to each resident’s unique needs. The devoted team is passionate about delivering quality care and fostering a joyful and uplifting atmosphere. Residents can also select from comfortable studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom apartments thoughtfully designed to suit individual tastes.

Offering top-tier amenities like a spacious courtyard and creative art classes, The Bluffs at Hamilton Hill promotes social connections and nurtures residents’ emotional, mental, and physical well-being. Each day is carefully planned to bring joy and purpose, making this a wonderful place to call home.

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Overview of Madonna Gardens Assisted Living & Memory Care

Offering assisted living and specialized memory care, Madonna Gardens is a warm and inclusive community where residents thrive in a nurturing environment. Nestled in South Salinas, California, the community fosters creativity, social connections, and personal growth. With one-story living and serene outdoor spaces, Madonna Gardens offers comfort and tranquility, ensuring residents feel at home. The community boasts exemplary assisted living and memory care amenities, including delicious meals, 24-hour staffing, and vibrant social programs. Residents also enjoy lush lawns, seasonal gardens, and intimate seating areas, which enhance their Carefield Living experience. With pet-friendly accommodations, fitness facilities, and scheduled transportation, Madonna Gardens provides a fulfilling lifestyle tailored to individual needs.

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Overview of Greenhaven Place

Seniors seeking a vibrant and welcoming senior living community can find a home at Greenhaven Place. Located in Sacramento, California, this assisted living community offers both award-winning independent living and assisted living options, providing personalized care and enriching experiences for older adults. With a deep commitment to enhancing health and wellness, Greenhaven Place designs individualized care plans that empower retirees to lead more meaningful and independent lives.
Engaging events and activities are organized daily, ensuring residents stay active and connected with their peers. Moreover, the community takes pride in serving chef-prepared meals made with locally-sourced produce in its dining room, offering a delightful culinary experience to its residents. At Greenhaven Place, seniors are presented with spacious apartments, showcasing elegant common areas, well-maintained gardens, and modern architecture, all contributing to an exceptional senior living experience. 

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Overview of Apple Ridge Assisted Living

Nestled in a charming neighborhood in Sacramento, California, Apple Ridge Assisted Living is a vibrant home that provides a unique and nurturing experience for its residents. It offers delightful services such as serving delicious meals, scheduled transportation, weekly housekeeping, and a beautiful community with landscaped areas and a courtyard featuring walking paths. Providing an active lifestyle, the community caters to assisted living, memory care, and short-term stays, creating an environment that complements the appeal of Sacramento, a truly beautiful city.

Their services encompass spacious apartment options, medication management, an emergency response system, third-party podiatrist visits, and social and recreational exercise programs. The facility takes pride in its personalized approach to everything it offers, ensuring residents benefit from engaging activities like travel, bingo, baking, painting, word games, memory games, and flexibility and balance exercises.

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Overview of Leisure Garden Senior Assisted Living Facility

Leisure Garden Senior Assisted Living Facility offers assisted living and residential care in Lancaster, CA. Assisted living includes personal care and help with daily living, while residential care provides support within a residential setting.

The community has 157 beds, with private and semi-private rooms. A private room provides an individual living space, while a semi-private room accommodates shared living.

Large patios, spacious activity areas and a garden give residents places for activities and time outside. Nutritional and Dietary Counseling is available to address residents’ dietary needs.

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Overview of Santa Barbara Memory Care

Santa Barbara Memory Care is an independent living, assisted living, and memory care home with an exquisite environment guaranteed to make residents feel welcome in their friendly atmosphere. The senior living community provides a life of amenities and services that create a comfortable and secure environment for residents. Whatever you seek, the community is ready to help and offer it. Santa Barbara Memory Care is an elegant community that ensures the trust and dedication of the staff to provide quality care and service – which families have recognized time and time again.

Santa Barbara Memory Care’s lifestyle is centered on the comfort and flexibility of its residents through residential assisted living amenities and services such as housekeeping, laundry, social events, recreational activities, fitness classes, medication management, and transportation.

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Overview of Sage Mountain Senior Living

Sage Mountain Senior Living provides assisted living, memory care, and respite care in Newbury Park, California. Assisted living includes help with daily tasks such as dressing, bathing, and medication while a resident keeps a private living space. Memory care offers a secured setting with supervision for someone who may be at risk of wandering.

Respite care provides a short stay when a family’s usual caregiver needs to travel or recover. The range of care options may suit a resident whose needs could change, or a family seeking temporary support. There are 145 beds in the community.

Residents can choose among studios, one bedroom residences, and two bedroom residences. The two bedroom layout can work for a couple moving together or for someone who wants a companion.

Christian Castillo serves as administrator, while Sage Mountain Sr. Housing Partners and Agemark Mgmt operate the community. Pets are allowed, so residents can bring a pet to live with them.

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Overview of A Loving Living Home Care

Owned and operated by Lovelyn Hojilla, A Loving Living Home Care is a residential care community in Vacaville, California, offering assisted living, home care, palliative care, and respite care services. With six beds and six years of operation, the community provides a small-scale setting designed to support older adults in a more personal, home-like environment.

Care services address a variety of needs, including dementia and Alzheimer’s support, diabetes and arthritis management, fall prevention, post-surgical care, and assistance with daily activities such as bathing, toileting, and meal preparation. Private duty care, live-in care, and long-distance elder care coordination are also available for individuals who require additional support or whose families live farther away.

State records currently show no outstanding citations. Previous inspections identified concerns related to medication administration and the use of an unapproved structure and equipment. Those issues were corrected, and subsequent inspections found the community in compliance. Families considering care may wish to discuss current medication management practices with staff.

Housekeeping, transportation services, and shared dining and lounge spaces contribute to daily life within the home. The surrounding area offers moderate walkability, with a limited number of nearby destinations accessible on foot, while most errands require transportation. The community is currently operating below full occupancy, with space available for new residents.

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Overview of Siebenthal Elder Care Home

Receive the utmost care you deserve from Siebenthal Elder Care Home, a dedicated community in the quiet neighborhood of Sacramento, CA, offering assisted living and memory care. Residents enjoy a maintenance-free lifestyle with a kind and well-trained team helping with their personal needs and household responsibilities around the clock. Purposely designed and spacious accommodations in a cozy and nurturing environment are provided to optimize residents’ comfort and safety.

There’s no dull moment with a jam-packed calendar of fun activities and enriching programs that aim to keep residents active and socially engaged. Three delicious and healthy meals are served to accommodate residents’ dietary needs and preferences. The community can rest assured of taking their medication in time with its supervision. Here, residents enjoy the highest quality of life amidst the community’s clean setting.

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Overview of Ambassadors Care Home

Ambassador Care Home is a residential care facility for the elderly, located in Antioch, CA. This close-knit senior living community provides assisted living services to their residents, in the comfort of a warm, home-like environment. Their assisted living services ensure that residents receive the proper care they need, providing 24 hour supervision and availability of assistance, medication management, and assistance with regular daily activities such as bathing, toileting, and dressing up.

Ambassador Care Home takes pride in the quality of care they provide, being a small community, the staff to resident ratio creates opportunities for better care, and supervision. The residents are provided three meals on a daily basis, as well as snacks. And to ensure that residents stay physically active and healthy, activities and programs promoting physical and mental health are regularly scheduled, while the staff takes care of chores such as laundry and housekeeping.

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Weighting overview

  • 35%
    Resident Experience
  • 25%
    Regulatory
  • 15%
    Visual Media
  • 10%
    Website
  • 10%
    Stability
  • 5%
    Environment
01

Resident & Family Experience 35%

The single largest share of every ranking. Aggregated review sentiment and volume from major platforms — the closest signal to real resident experience.

  • Includes
  • Review Sentiment
  • Review Volume
02

Regulatory & Safety Record 25%

State inspection records, citations, and complaint visits. We weight per-inspection rates more heavily than raw counts.

  • Includes
  • State Inspections
  • Citations/Inspection
  • % Inspections w/ Citations
  • Complaint Visits
  • Accreditations
  • BBB Rating
03

Visual Media & Transparency 15%

Communities that publish high-quality visuals give families a real preview. No photos or tours = a negative transparency signal.

  • Includes
  • Video Tours
  • Virtual Walkthroughs
  • Photo Quantity
  • Photo Quality
04

Website & Operator Transparency 10%

Site quality and whether the operator publishes basic accountability information — staff names, contact details, ownership.

  • Includes
  • Website Content
  • Mobile Usability
  • Staff Info Available
  • Owner Info Available
05

Community Stability 10%

Operational signals indicating whether a community is well-run and meeting demand.

  • Includes
  • Occupancy Rate
  • Bed Options
06

Environment & Pricing 5%

Walkability and pricing transparency. Walk Score is weighted higher for Independent Living than for Memory Care, where most residents do not leave unaccompanied.

  • Includes
  • Walk Score
  • Pricing Transparency
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Senior Communities in California at a glance

Avg Walk Score: 56/ 100The average Walk Score across facilities in California. A third-party neighborhood walkability score (0–100) measuring convenience and context, not healthcare quality. Individual facilities can vary widely from this average.
National Average: 50/ 100
Avg No. of Beds: 103The average licensed bed capacity across facilities in California. Individual facilities can vary widely from this average.
National Average: 90

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Frequently Asked Questions about Senior Communities in California

What is senior living?

Senior communities are residential settings designed for adults aged 55 or older, with options ranging from active independent living to assisted living and memory care.

How many senior communities are listed on this page?

This page features 2076 senior communities in California. Use the filters and comparison tools above to compare ratings, amenities, and pricing.

How do I choose the right senior community in California?

Start by matching the level of care offered to the resident's current and anticipated needs, then compare licensing status, staff-to-resident ratios, recent inspection results, and pricing. Tour at least two or three communities in California, talk to current residents and families, and confirm what is included in the base rate versus billed as add-on services.

What should I look for when visiting senior communities in California?

Pay attention to staff interactions with residents, cleanliness and odor, food quality at meal times, the activity calendar, and how questions about pricing and care plans are answered. Ask to see the most recent state inspection report, the move-out / level-of-care-change policy, and a sample monthly bill that lists every fee.