Memory care options in Long Beach, ranked by inspection data

Of the 47 licensed assisted living facilities in Long Beach, 15 offer memory care. That is the highest memory care share of any city in this Southern California report: about 1 in 3.

The 15 facilities have a combined FYI Safety Score average of 6.34. The average across all Long Beach assisted living is 7.85. Memory care here runs about 1.5 points lower than general assisted living, which is one of the widest gaps among major California cities. The reason is shape: the top of the Long Beach memory care list is genuinely strong, but the bottom holds five facilities scoring at or near 1.0. The choice in this market is unusually sharp.

Below are the 10 safest memory care facilities in the city, what the rest of the market looks like, and where Long Beach fits statewide. The data was pulled from California state inspection records in May 2026.

The 10 safest memory care facilities in Long Beach

The ranking is the FYI Safety Score on a 1.0 to 10.0 scale, computed from the public state inspection record. Linked facility names open the full inspection record on their detail page.

The headline at the top of this list is Crofton Manor Inn. 213 beds. 42 years of licensing. 24 documented state visits. Zero citations. Zero substantiated complaints. That is one of the cleanest large-community memory care records in California, and Long Beach families with a parent who needs memory care should know it exists before assuming the only safe options are 6-bed care homes.

The rest of the top 10 is almost entirely small homes. 9 of the 10 hold 6 beds or fewer. The visible pattern: in Long Beach memory care, the high-confidence options are either Crofton Manor or one of the small care homes. The middle does not really exist.

How memory care availability looks across the rest of Long Beach

A top-10 list is a starting point. Here is what the full distribution of all 15 Long Beach memory care facilities looks like.

This is the most bimodal market in our 6-city report. There is no Poor band at all. Facilities either cluster at the strong end or fall into Severe. 5 of the 15 memory care facilities score in the Severe band, which is the highest share of any city in this report. Four of those five are large communities: Vista Del Mar Senior Living (300 beds, score 2.2), Palmcrest Grand Residence (262 beds, score 2.2), Glen Park at Long Beach (208 beds, score 1.0), and Brittany House (170 beds, score 1.0).

For families: read the full inspection record before any tour at a Severe-band facility. Look for what was cited, how recently, and whether it touched the parts of memory care that matter most. A facility that can speak specifically to what happened and what has changed since is in a different position than one that cannot. Our guide on how to read a California inspection report walks through the document.

How memory care differs from general assisted living

Memory care in California is not a separate license type. It is a care specialty offered by some Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly. The differences in practice: a secured unit so residents with dementia cannot leave unsupervised, higher staff-to-resident ratios, dementia-specific training, and protocols for wandering, sundowning, and behavioral incidents.

When you read a memory care facility's inspection record, certain finding types matter more than they would for general assisted living. Supervision failures. Medication errors. Elopement incidents. Resident-on-resident conflicts. These show up in the public record and tell you more about a facility's competence with cognitive impairment than the marketing brochure will.

For the full breakdown of how to think about memory care vs general assisted living, see our guide on memory care vs assisted living.

Where Long Beach fits in the statewide memory care picture

Long Beach is on our statewide map of the safest memory care benches, almost entirely on the back of Crofton Manor Inn. That facility is one of the deepest clean records in California memory care. The rest of the city's top tier is solid but not statewide-leading.

The flip side is real. With one third of the memory care market in the Severe band, Long Beach has more concerning facilities than most cities in our coverage. The good news is the data is public. The harder news is families have to know to look at it.

The statewide ranking of safest memory care in California is the broader view.

How to use this list

The score is the gut check. The visit is the field test. The conversations with current residents and frontline staff are the verification.

For memory care specifically, the visit matters even more than for general assisted living. You are not just evaluating the building. You are evaluating the staff's specific competence with cognitive impairment. Watch how staff interact with current memory care residents during your tour. Listen for whether they speak about residents as individuals with names and preferences, or as a generic group. The difference shows up immediately.

Browse all Long Beach assisted living facilities on the AssistedLiving.fyi map. Filter by care type to narrow to memory care. For the broader Long Beach picture, see safest assisted living in Long Beach. For the general framework on evaluating any facility, see how to do a safety vibe check without trusting marketing.

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Data: Computed from California Department of Social Services Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD) inspection records, ingested into AssistedLiving.fyi. Safety scores reflect the inspection record as of May 2026 and may change as new visits are documented. The FYI Safety Score is provided for informational purposes only and is not a guarantee or prediction of the safety, quality, or suitability of any facility. Always visit in person before deciding.