Care designed around six people, not sixty.
In a home of six, no one is a room number. Serenity House is being designed so that every day — every meal, every walk, every quiet conversation — is shaped around the people who will live here.
A care team devoted to just six residents
Most assisted living communities are built around a building. Serenity House is being built around six individuals. Our care team will come to know each resident's preferences, history, and rhythms — the way they take their tea, the mornings they like to sleep in, the daughter who calls on Sundays.
Residents will receive thoughtful, unhurried assistance with the activities of daily living:
Serenity House is designed for ambulatory residents who do not require memory care or skilled nursing.
A day at Serenity House
No schedules shouted down a hallway. No cafeteria lines. Life here will move at the pace of a well-loved home — unhurried mornings, purposeful afternoons, and evenings that end the way they should: quietly, together.
Morning
Mornings will begin when each resident is ready — coffee in the morning light, a warm breakfast at the shared table, and gentle help with the day's start for those who want it.
Afternoon
Afternoons will be for living: tending the garden, a walk along the lake path, a hand of cards, or a visit from family — with a care team nearby, never hovering.
Evening
Evenings will gather everyone around one table for a chef-prepared dinner, then wind down with a book, a favorite show, or a quiet conversation before a restful night.
Chef-prepared meals, served at one table
Food is where a house becomes a home. Working with our professional culinary partner, Serenity House will serve chef-prepared meals made from fresh, seasonal ingredients — real cooking, plated with care, never reheated from a tray line.
With only six residents, the kitchen will know everyone. Menus will be shaped around personal favorites, lifelong traditions, and each resident's dietary needs — and when a daughter visits at lunchtime, there will always be a place set for her.
What is a board-and-care home (RCFE)?
A board-and-care home is a small, residential alternative to a large assisted living community: an actual house, in an actual neighborhood, where a handful of residents receive personal assistance with daily living. Serenity House will operate as a residential care facility for the elderly (RCFE) — California's licensing category for assisted living homes — under Serenity Homes Assisted Living, Inc., with its license application pending.
In California, both six-bed homes and 100-bed communities operate under the same RCFE category and the same state oversight. The difference is scale, and scale changes everything: at Serenity House, six residents will share one home, one table, and a care team that knows each of them well. Days will be shaped around individual people rather than a facility-wide calendar.
For families comparing options, the questions that matter most are about daily life — who will cook the meals, who will answer in the night, how well the team knows your parent. Our FAQ answers the questions families ask most, and our pricing page explains how board-and-care pricing works. When you're ready, come walk through the home and see the difference six makes.