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You might be wondering why you’d need a senior living advisor to help you find assisted living or memory care in Los Angeles—especially with Google and ChatGPT just a click away. So what’s the advantage? Just ask our clients who continue to seek our local guidance and care that no search engine can replicate. 

A senior living advisor is a professional who specializes in helping families navigate the often overwhelming process of finding the right care setting for a loved one who can no longer live safely at home. The service comes at no cost to you—the communities compensate the company when a new resident moves in.

While the internet can help you identify assisted living communities in your area, the options are much more vast somewhere like Los Angeles compared to a smaller community, and sifting through all the information is a job for more than an algorithm; you need someone with local knowledge and personal relationships who can relate to your family’s needs. 

From Santa Monica to Sherman Oaks, Beverly Hills, Encino and everywhere in between, there are many options, but your loved one who has mobility issues has different care needs than someone else suffering from dementia or Parkinson’s. Or maybe your mom is active and independent and looking for a community with plenty of activities or even a swimming pool. Tapping a local expert with real expertise can help you cut through the clutter, narrow your choices and make the right choice for your family that you can have confidence in. And the best part is, our service is free of charge to you. 

So, what is it like working with a senior living advisor? 

Steps To Working With A Senior Living Advisor:

  1. Initial Phone Consultation – We’ll meet to understand your unique situation – your budget, health needs, preferred location, loved one’s lifestyle and more to begin to narrow down local communities that are a good match.

  2. Review of Potential Communities with Estimated Pricing – Our next step is that we will email a tailored list of potential communities. The estimated pricing will be attached as well. Most communities will not give you pricing information without touring first.

  3. Tour Communities – We’ll personally take you to tour communities where we have agreements and have built relationships with local staff and care providers, introducing you to the teams that would care for your loved ones on a daily basis. We can introduce you to residents in communities and even have you sample food so you can truly get a feel for life at each senior and assisted living community. 

  4. Detailed Review – We’ll help you go deeper in your evaluation to ensure you make the right decision, reviewing the community’s state records, health care services, community offerings and more. 

  5. Selection & Paperwork – We’ll be by your side to navigate the confusing paperwork and payment process that happens ahead of move-in.

  6. Move-in – we’ll help you liaise with the community until your loved one is safely moved into their new home.

Don’t be fooled by online ads – not all placement services are created equally. The nation’s largest placement service, A Place For Mom, employs telemarketers as its ‘advisors.’ Their employees often aren’t local and you won’t have the benefit of personal relationships with area communities. They’ve also recently been dinged for recommending substandard facilities and several Los Angeles communities no longer work with them.Make sure you’re working with a trusted, local advisor that’s ingrained in their community, even if it’s not us.

So, What Makes A Great Senior Living Advisor?

  1. Local – you should work with someone who knows the community inside and out, especially in a diverse place like LA. 

  2. Real relationships with local communities and their staff– A recent client noted that communities loved working with us and vice versa, which made an often difficult process much easier. 

  3. Knowledgeable– Spends every day in their community reviewing state records, touring communities, and speaking with residents.

  4. Track Record – There’s no shortage of people calling themselves senior living advisors. But not all advisors are created equal. Ask how long they’ve been in the business. Make sure they’re contracted with all the local communities—not just a select few. And find out if senior living is their true specialty, or just one part of a broader business. Experience and focus matter when it comes to something this important.

Not convinced? Watch some of our client testimonials or read some of our reviews.

Sure, you could do it all on your own, but you’re dealing with enough stress. We’re here to help and our service is free of charge to you, you don’t need to navigate this complicated process alone. Call Assisted Living Locators Los Angeles today at 310-853-8282 for more information and to begin your custom evaluation and tours today.

About Assisted Living Locators
Since 2003, thousands of families have been helped by Assisted Living Locators, one of the nation’s leading free senior living placement services. The Los Angeles team services clients from Glendale and Burbank to Santa Monica, including West Hollywood, Century City, Westwood, and everything in between. The office also represents clients looking for senior living south of Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley in neighborhoods such as Sherman Oaks, Encino, and Studio City. The Los Angeles office can be reached at assistedlivinglocators.com/contact-us.