South Bay Senior Guide

A senior care directory that looks past the brochure.

State-verified listings. No referral commissions. Built to help you ask the right questions before you decide.

Illustrated map of the South Bay, from the Santa Cruz Mountains to San Francisco Bay, naming ten Santa Clara County cities.

Or answer six questions and we will narrow it down →

At a glance

20
listings published
100%
license records linked
$0
referral fees taken
8
cities covered

We are loading this directory carefully rather than quickly. A facility appears here once we have checked it against the state licensing record and written it up — not when we found its name on a list.

The directory

The directory

Listed alphabetically

No listing carries a score yet, so none of these rows shows one and the table is ordered alphabetically. The method is published in advance at how we score, nothing about it is for sale, and sponsorship cannot change this order.

Browse

Browse by care type

Assisted Living

20 published

Browse

Memory Care

11 published

Browse

Independent Living

4 published

Browse

5 more, in progress

Board & Care Home, Skilled Nursing, Home Care, Adult Day Program, Hospice

Sourcing these from public records now. A category goes live when it holds enough checked listings to be worth your time — not before.

Beyond the home

Professionals who help

Verified the same way as the facilities

Choosing a home is rarely the only decision. These are the people families end up needing alongside it, and we are working through their public records the same way we did the facilities.

  • Elder Law AttorneyVerifying
  • Placement AdvisorVerifying
  • Senior Move ManagerVerifying
  • Professional FiduciaryVerifying
  • Geriatric Care ManagerVerifying
  • Home ModificationVerifying

Tools

Also on the guide

Free, and none of it asks for your phone number

Compare listings

Put up to three side by side — license standing, capacity, pricing, availability.

Open the comparison

Cost guide

What care actually costs here, with the source and date attached to every figure.

See the cost guide

Care navigator

Six questions, then a shortlist that explains why each home is on it.

Start the navigator

Reviews and Q&A

Moderated reviews written here, and public answers from the operator.

Not open yet — the policy is published, the form is not built.

Events calendar

Open houses, resource fairs and caregiver workshops across the county.

Not built yet.

Video tours

Filmed by us on site, never supplied by the operator.

None filmed yet.

Industry practice

What a referral is worth elsewhere

Most national senior-care sites are paid a placement fee when a family they refer moves in — often close to a resident’s first month of rent. That is a large amount of money riding on which door you walk through, and it is rarely disclosed on the page where the recommendation appears. How we handle data.