Senior living placement · Orange County, California
For families choosing for a loved one, and for hospital case managers working to a discharge date. Waypost Care searches Orange County's assisted living, memory care and residential care homes, checks every option against the state licensing record, and hands you a shortlist you can act on. Nobody pays us but the communities — and we tell you which ones.
No contract. No obligation. A reply within one business day — same day for active discharges.
If this is where you are
Whether you're the daughter, the son, the spouse, the friend with power of attorney — or the case manager with forty patients and a discharge board — it's the same problem from two sides.
For families
Same courtyard photos, same words about "dignity." Nothing that tells you which one would actually take good care of the person you love — and a case manager who needs an answer by Thursday.
Paid by the communities, sending you to the ones on their list, and never quite saying so.
For case managers
You've given them the list twice. They're overwhelmed, and the discharge date is not moving.
A community that couldn't really handle the care level. A family that moved someone twice. Every one costs you a day.
What changes
For hospital case managers and discharge planners
You're responsible for a safe discharge, not for being a senior living directory. We take the family's search off your plate and report back to you — at no cost to the hospital, the family, or you.
Why Waypost Care
The list is places that have beds, not places that have been checked. We start from the list and do the checking.
The big services are paid by communities too, and usually won't tell you which ones. We do, and the people you reach are the people doing the work, here.
California licenses more than 7,800 of these communities. You could learn to read the licensing database. Or hand it to someone who already has, for free.
How it works
What the person needs help with, roughly what can be spent monthly, which part of the county, and how fast. One email or call — from the family or the hospital.
We find the places that fit, check each against the state record, and send a shortlist with costs, licence details, and who pays us.
We schedule the visits and come along if they'd like. The decision belongs to the person and their family, with their doctors.
What we can show you
Waypost Care opened in 2026. We don't have a wall of testimonials yet, and we'd rather tell you that than fake one. What we can show you is the method.
Licensed residential care communities in California. Four in five are small homes of fifteen residents or fewer — the ones no directory covers.
Checked against the public licensing record: licence status, capacity, citations. We give you the licence number (306xxxxxx) so you can look it up too.
Before we present a single community, the family gets our compensation disclosure on paper.
No call centre, no queue. Call or email and you reach the people doing the work, in Orange County.
The part most advisors skip
No fee to the person moving, their family, or the hospital — not at the start, not at move-in, not ever. There is no upgraded version.
The whole search, start to move-in:
No contract, no sign-up, no medical records. Reply within one business day. Stop any time by not replying.
Before you decide
It's free to the family because communities pay us when a family we introduced moves in. That's the catch, and it's the same arrangement every senior living advisor has — we're just the ones who say it out loud and put it in writing.
No. If a community outside our network is a better fit, we'll say so. On every option we present, we'll say whether it's one that pays Waypost Care.
No, and we never will. Nothing changes hands between Waypost Care and a hospital, a case manager, or a provider who sends a family our way.
If there's a discharge date, tell us and we'll work to it. A first set of options in writing typically follows within a couple of days; tours can usually be arranged for the following day.
No. The decision belongs to the person and their family, with their doctors. Our job ends when they have what they need to make it.
