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Find the Right Senior Living Community Without the Overwhelm

Free, expert-guided placement for assisted living, memory care, and residential care in the San Francisco Bay Area. Backed by 25 years of clinical healthcare experience.

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No cost to families. Ever. Facilities pay our referral fee — not you.

How We Help Your Family

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Tell Us What You Need

Share your loved one's care needs, location preferences, and budget. We listen first — no pressure, no sales pitch. Just a conversation about what matters most to your family.

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We Do the Research

We personally tour and vet every facility we recommend. No generic lists. No paid placements. We match your family to communities based on care quality, staff ratios, and real-world fit.

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Visit, Choose, Move In

We arrange tours, attend with you, and help you ask the right questions. When you find the right fit, we coordinate the transition so nothing falls through the cracks.

What We Help With

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Assisted Living Placement

For seniors who need help with daily activities like bathing, dressing, medication management, and meals. We match families to licensed Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFE) across the Bay Area.

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Memory Care Placement

For seniors with Alzheimer's, dementia, or cognitive decline who need specialized programming and secure environments. We evaluate communities for staff training, resident-to-caregiver ratios, and engagement programs.

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Post-Hospital Transition

When a hospital discharge happens fast, families are often overwhelmed. We work with discharge planners at UCSF, Stanford, John Muir, Alta Bates, and Kaiser to find appropriate placement quickly.

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Independent Living Guidance

For active seniors ready to downsize into a community with dining, social activities, and wellness programs — without needing daily care assistance. We help find the right lifestyle fit.

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Skilled Nursing / Rehab

For seniors needing 24/7 medical care, IV therapy, wound care, or post-surgical rehabilitation. We evaluate skilled nursing facilities for clinical quality, staffing ratios, and CMS star ratings.

Bay Area Communities We Cover

San Francisco & Peninsula

  • San Francisco
  • Daly City
  • South San Francisco
  • San Mateo
  • Redwood City
  • Palo Alto

East Bay

  • Oakland
  • Berkeley
  • Albany
  • Fremont
  • San Leandro
  • Pleasanton

North & South Bay

  • Walnut Creek
  • Concord
  • San Rafael
  • Novato
  • Sunnyvale
  • San Jose
Expanding Soon: Sacramento | Los Angeles | San Diego | Orange County

What Families Say

"Barton made an incredibly stressful time manageable. He toured facilities with us, asked questions we never would have thought of, and helped Mom settle into a community she loves."

— Bay Area Family

"After Dad's stroke, the hospital said we had 48 hours to find placement. Barton had three options for us by the next morning. We couldn't have done it without him."

— East Bay Family

"What impressed us most was that Barton followed up a month after Mom moved in to make sure everything was going well. No one else does that."

— Peninsula Family

Common Questions

How is this really free?+
Senior living communities pay a referral fee when a resident moves in — typically a percentage of the first month's rent. This fee is the same whether you use a placement advisor or find the community yourself. Your monthly cost is identical either way. We never charge families.
How is Elevate different from A Place for Mom?+
Large referral services generate leads online and pass them to communities they have contracts with — often without ever visiting the facility. We personally tour every community we recommend, and our founder has 25 years of clinical healthcare experience. We work for your family, not the facility's marketing budget.
How quickly can you help?+
For planned transitions, we typically present options within 3-5 days. For urgent hospital discharges, we can have vetted options within 24 hours. We understand that timing matters.
Do you only recommend certain facilities?+
No. We evaluate communities across the Bay Area based on quality, staffing, and fit — not contracts or kickbacks. If a facility isn't right for your family, we won't recommend it, regardless of what they pay us.
What areas do you cover?+
We currently cover the full San Francisco Bay Area — San Francisco, the Peninsula, East Bay, South Bay, and Marin. We are expanding to Sacramento in 2026.
Can you help if my loved one has dementia?+
Absolutely. Memory care placement requires specialized knowledge — understanding secured environments, staff dementia training certifications, and behavioral management approaches. With our clinical background, this is one of our strongest areas.

Your Family Deserves Better Than a Google Search

Finding the right senior living community is one of the most important decisions your family will make. Let us do the research, tour the facilities, and guide you through the process — at no cost.

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Free to Families 25 Years Clinical Experience Bay Area Local Expert Post-Move-In Follow-Up