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24-Hour Care Placement Snohomish & King County, WA

Cut through the senior care noise.
$0 cost to your family.

Skip the cold calls, the voicemails, and the wait lists. We tour every senior care home we recommend across Snohomish & King County, then hand you three vetted matches that fit your situation. Communities pay our fee. Your family pays nothing.

Free for families. Communities pay our placement fee.
Local only. Snohomish + King County, based in Everett.
Founder led. Valeri Tran, senior placement specialist.
We tour with you. Not a national call center.
A caregiver in blue scrubs listening to an elderly woman's heart with a stethoscope, both seated together in a sunlit room at home.
What this looks like
A short call. A licensed nurse assessment. Tours we attend with you. Move in.
Why a Placement Agency

Stop calling. Start matching.

Searching for senior care alone means cold calls, voicemails, wait lists, and sales pitches you can’t decode. A placement agency exists for exactly this reason. We’ve already toured every home in our network across Snohomish & King County, we know which ones fit your situation, and we hand you a short list of vetted matches. Always free for your family.

Searching Alone
A maze of cold calls.
  • Voicemails & wait lists
  • Sales pitches from each community
  • No way to know what’s actually a fit
  • Hours of research, often weeks
With Golden Haven
One call. Three matches.
  • One conversation to start
  • Three vetted matches, hand-picked
  • Honest guidance, no sales pitches
  • Free, always — communities pay our fee
Where We Match

Snohomish & King Counties, end to end.

Snohomish County King County Everett Seattle Lynnwood Bothell Kirkland Redmond Snohomish Marysville Edmonds
Trusted Network
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vetted partner communities across the greater Seattle region.

Adult family homes · Assisted living · Memory care
The situation

Most families come to us in the worst week of their lives.

Mom had another fall last Thursday. The hospital wants a discharge plan by Friday. You spent Sunday night in a Google rabbit hole, comparing names of places you have never set foot in. Most agencies are built for the next call.

We were built for this one. We answer the phone in the evening. We know which adult family homes have an awake-overnight aide and which do not. We tour with you, not after you.

What we hear, every week

  • Dad cannot stay home alone anymore. Last night confirmed it.
  • The discharge planner gave us a printed list. None of the names mean anything.
  • The big national service called us back from out of state. They had not been in any of the homes.
  • Cost is unclear. Veterans benefits are unclear. Medicaid waivers are unclear.
  • We do not know what 24-hour care actually means at each home.
How it works

Three steps. We do the work that only a local can.

Some families need a placement in ten days. Some need three months. Both are fine. We move at your pace, not ours.

Tell us about your situation

A short call, or the form below. We listen first. We ask about care needs, cost concerns, and timeline. No commitment. No script.

Same day

We match you with vetted homes

A licensed nurse assesses care needs. We hand-pick a short list of homes we have personally toured. We attend the tours with you and ask the questions families forget.

Within 48 hours

You tour, decide, move in

You pick the home. We help with paperwork, deposits, and move-in logistics. We stay in touch after move-in too. If the first home is not right, we keep working.

Two to four weeks typical
Care we place into

Four kinds of senior care, one placement service.

24-hour care is what most of our families call about. The other three follow from there. We help you find the level of support that actually fits, even if it is not the level you started looking for.

ii. Active lifestyle

Assisted living placement

Larger communities with private apartments, communal dining, social calendars, and a wellness team on site. Independence with help nearby when it is needed. We narrow the list to communities whose tier of care actually fits your loved one, today and a year from now.

  • Tiered care plans, written
  • Respite stays available
  • Communities we have walked through ourselves
  • Cost transparency before tour
iii. Quiet residential

Adult family home placement

Small residential homes with a quiet, family-like setting. Two to six residents. Often the right answer for someone who would feel lost in a 100-resident community, or who needs more attentive hands-on care than assisted living provides. Valeri has spent years inside Snohomish County adult family homes, so she knows what good looks like.

  • Two to six resident homes
  • 24-hour staffing, hands-on
  • Dietary and cultural fit considered
  • Lower monthly cost than many AL tiers
iv. Specialized

Memory care placement

Secure environments built specifically for residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Memory-trained staff, structured daily rhythms, and physical design that reduces confusion. We watch how residents are spoken to during our tours. That tells us more than any brochure.

  • Secure memory care neighborhoods
  • Dementia-trained staff verified
  • Sundowning protocols asked about
  • Family education on stages
Why families choose us

A placement partner. Not a referral service.

A caregiver leaning in beside a senior in a wheelchair, both smiling outdoors in a meadow.
$0 cost to your family
We tour, we vet, we place
  • I.

    Free to families. Always.

    Communities pay our placement fee, only after a move-in. There is nothing for you to buy, no membership, no callback fee, no consultation charge.

  • II.

    Local only.

    Snohomish County primary, parts of King County secondary. Based in Everett. We do not place outside the region. Local depth beats national breadth in this work.

  • III.

    We tour homes in person.

    We have been inside every home we recommend. We have met staff. We have watched a meal. National services that read off a database have not done that.

  • IV.

    Founder led, locally rooted.

    Valeri has spent years inside senior placement work in Snohomish County. She knows the homes, the staff, and the questions families do not yet know to ask.

We treat your loved one’s placement the way we would treat our own mother’s. Carefully. Honestly. With the time it deserves. Valeri Tran, Founder
Common questions

What families ask, before they ask anything else.

How much does this cost my family?
Nothing. Communities pay our placement fee only after a successful move in. Families never receive a bill from us. There is no membership, callback fee, or consultation charge.
How long does the placement process take?
Most families have a short list of vetted homes within 48 hours of the first call. Move in usually happens in two to four weeks. Hospital discharges can move faster when needed. Some families take three months and that is fine too.
What if we tour a home and change our minds?
That happens often, and is fine. We keep working with you until the right home is found, even if the first three are not it. Placement is not a transaction for us, it is the start of a relationship.
Are you connected to specific communities?
We have working relationships with adult family homes, assisted living communities, and memory care communities across Snohomish and King counties. We only refer to homes we have personally toured. Valeri also owns and operates an adult family home herself, which keeps us close to the day-to-day reality of this work.
How do you choose which homes to recommend?
In person. Every home in our network has been visited, met with the staff, and observed at meal time. We watch how residents are spoken to, whether the dementia care neighborhood is calm at 4pm, whether the call lights get answered. We do not recommend homes we have not walked through.
Is this a sales pitch?
No. There is nothing for you to buy. The first call is a listening call. If we are not the right fit, we will say so on that call and point you somewhere that is.
Our Promise to Families
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Our service is paid by partner communities,
not by families.

No fees · No contracts · No pressure
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