Honest answers,
in plain language.

A board and care home is a small, residential-style senior care home — typically six beds — set in a real house in a real neighborhood. Residents receive help with daily living, home-style meals, housekeeping, and companionship at a family scale rather than inside a large facility.

In California, board and care homes are a category of Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE). Serenity House will be a six-resident board and care home on Swan Lake Drive in Granite Bay, where four of the six rooms will be private, dining will be chef-prepared, and Swan Lake's walking paths are steps from the door.

Scale. A large assisted living community may house dozens or even hundreds of residents in an apartment-style building; a board and care home serves a handful of residents in an actual house. The trade is amenities on paper for attention in practice — fewer faces, one table, caregivers who know every preference.

Serenity House is being designed around that difference: six residents and a care team devoted entirely to them. In a home this size, no one waits for a call button to be noticed.

RCFE stands for Residential Care Facility for the Elderly — California's official category for non-medical senior housing that provides room, board, and assistance with the activities of daily living. RCFEs range from six-bed homes to large communities, and all are overseen by the California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division.

Serenity House will operate as a six-resident RCFE in Granite Bay. Our license application is pending with the Department, and the home will open in Fall 2026.

Serenity House has applied for RCFE licensure with the California Department of Social Services and will admit residents only after the license is issued. We are opening Fall 2026 and currently accepting waitlist inquiries and scheduling private tours from September.

Licensing status is public information, and we believe families deserve a straight answer to this question from every home they consider. Ask us about our application at any point — including on a private preview tour.

Serenity House will open in Fall 2026, once our license is issued by the California Department of Social Services. Private preview tours of the home begin September 1, and the waitlist is open now — joining is free and carries no obligation.

Because licensing timelines belong to the state, we share a season rather than a date. Waitlist families will be the first to hear the moment the opening is confirmed.

Six. Serenity House is a single residence with four fully private rooms — one with its own bathroom — and the Companion Suite, our largest bedroom, with two sleeping areas behind a partial partition at the home's most accessible rate. The number is the whole idea: one table at dinner, a care team devoted to just six residents, and a house that sounds like a home instead of a hallway.

Families choose the room style that fits — private or companion — before they ever say yes.

Serenity House will offer assistance with the activities of daily living — bathing, dressing, grooming, medication support, and mobility — alongside chef-prepared meals, housekeeping, laundry, and genuine daily companionship. Serenity House is designed for ambulatory residents who do not require memory care or skilled nursing.

Each resident's routine will be shaped in conversation with their family before move-in — how they take their coffee, when they like to walk, what a good day looks like — and revisited as the seasons of life change. Read more on our Care & Dining page.

It depends on the level of help a resident needs, the room itself, and what the quoted rate actually includes. Placer County assisted living typically runs above the national median (Genworth Cost of Care Survey), and small homes are priced differently from large communities.

Serenity House will share complete, personalized pricing with families on request — a clear quote covering the room, chef-prepared dining, daily care, housekeeping, and laundry, shaped around your parent's needs. Request pricing and we'll respond personally, no obligation.

No. Medicare does not pay for assisted living. It covers medical care — hospital stays, doctor visits, short-term rehabilitation — but not the room, board, and daily-living help that assisted living and board and care homes provide. Most California RCFE residents pay privately.

Families commonly fund care through private savings, long-term care insurance, proceeds from a family home, and VA Aid & Attendance benefits for qualifying veterans and their surviving spouses. We're glad to talk through what applies to your situation when you visit.

Through the short form on our visit page — it takes about a minute, and there is nothing to pay and nothing to sign. Joining our interest list is free and does not constitute an application for admission, reserve a room, or guarantee placement. Serenity House will begin admissions only after licensure by the California Department of Social Services.

Waitlist families receive occasional progress updates, first notice when September tour times open, and the first conversations once our opening is confirmed.

Serenity House sits in Granite Bay's Treelake Village neighborhood, minutes from Roseville, Rocklin, and Folsom, and an easy drive from Loomis, Penryn, Newcastle, and Auburn. For adult children across the Placer County corridor, the home is close enough for everyday visits — not just Sunday ones.

See Areas We Serve for drive times from each community to our door on Swan Lake Drive.

Ask about the people: who would care for your parent day to day, how many residents each caregiver looks after, and who does the cooking. Ask any facility about its licensing status. Ask what the quoted rate includes — and what makes it go up. Then sit quietly for a few minutes and listen to how the home sounds.

Tours of Serenity House are private preview tours — a chance to see the home and meet our team before opening, never an admission interview. Book one and bring every hard question; we'd rather you ask us than wonder.