Compare · Senior care
Who reviews senior care, and can you trust them?
Assisted living and home care, ranked by directories you often pay to join. Here is every review site we track in this category, graded head to head.
| Grade | Review site | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | B- | Grades: its senior-care reviews and 'Caring Stars' list A free senior-care directory with real first-hand resident reviews, but it earns referral fees from the very providers it lists, and by its own disclosure paid partnerships can affect listing order. |
| 2 | C- | Grades: its consumer reviews of senior-care communities A free consumer-review directory for senior living, but it is owned by referral giant A Place for Mom, which earns a fee when families it refers move in — so the ratings sit next to a paid lead-gen funnel. |
| 3 | D | Grades: its senior-living matches and 'Best of' awards A free senior-care matchmaker paid by the same communities it recommends; a 2024 Washington Post investigation found roughly a third of its "Best of" winners had care-violation records. |
| 4 | D | Grades: its caregiver profiles, ratings, and reviews A paid caregiver marketplace, not an independent reviewer: profiles carry family ratings but caregivers can pay to boost visibility, and the FTC took action in 2024 over its deceptive job and background-check claims. |
Columns are the five rubric dimensions, scored 0-5, with each column's weight shown in its header; independence and evidence carry the most, 30% each. See the full methodology. Each row also shows a scoring-confidence chip (how sure we are of that grade) and a type tag; hover any chip for what it means.