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Aug 5, 2014
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Online information about assisted living facilities hard to find
It’s a topic few of us think about: How to care for senior citizens, maybe your parent or your grandparent, when they're no longer able to live alone, but aren't sick enough for a nursing home.
Modest but clean: a double at Wester Villa, an assisted living facility in Inglewood
Modest but clean: a double at Wester Villa, an assisted living facility in Inglewood
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It’s a topic few of us think about: How to care for senior citizens, maybe your parent or your grandparent, when they're no longer able to live alone, but aren't sick enough for a nursing home.

It’s a topic few of us think about: How to care for senior citizens, maybe your parent or your grandparent, when they're no longer able to live alone, but aren't sick enough for a nursing home.

Many times, the only choice is an assisted living facility, but finding reliable information about a particular assisted living facility can be hard to come by in California. Lawmakers will vote on a bill this month that could change that.

The California Report's April Dembosky had this story.