Garden Grove, Orange County
Assisted living and care homes in Garden Grove
48
licensed care homes
Across 5 ZIP codes.
42
are six-bed homes
Ordinary houses, almost none of them listed anywhere.
6
larger communities
The ones you have already found online.
887
licensed beds
An average of about 18 per home.
Counted from the California Department of Social Services licensed register, state extract published May 2025. Licensing changes between extracts, so check any home's current status on the state's own search before you sign anything.
A market with two halves
Forty-two of Garden Grove's licensed homes are six-bed houses and six are larger communities, two of them licensed for well over a hundred beds. That is a more even split than Orange or Placentia, and it means a family here genuinely does get to choose between a house and a building rather than having the decision made for them by what is available.
Language is a real question here
Garden Grove and the neighbouring cities hold one of the largest Vietnamese-American communities in the country, and a substantial Spanish-speaking population alongside it. For a resident with dementia that is not a nicety. Late-stage dementia often strips away a second language first, and a parent who arrived speaking English can end up able to understand only the language they grew up in.
So in this part of the county it is worth asking a home directly which languages its caregivers actually speak on a night shift, not just during a tour. We ask that question as a matter of course here, and it changes the shortlist more often than families expect.
Where the homes are
The licensed homes sit across five ZIP codes rather than one, which in practice means the search is best run by drive time from whoever will be visiting most often, not by postcode.
From the state register
Every licensed community of more than six beds in Garden Grove
Licence numbers included so you can look any of them up yourself rather than taking our word for it.
- Westminster Villa13881 Dawson Street, Garden Grove 92843200 beds · licensed 2015
- Brookdale Valley View5900 Chapman Ave, Garden Grove 92845160 beds · licensed 1999
- Brookdale Garden Grove10200 Chapman Ave, Garden Grove 92840140 beds · licensed 1998
- Ivy Terrace at Garden Grove11848 Valley View Street, Garden Grove 9284572 beds · licensed 2023
- Garden Grove Guest Home LLC12882 Shackelford Lane, Garden Grove 9284147 beds · licensed 2021
- Rochelle Manor20 beds · licensed 2000
The other 42 licensed homes in Garden Grove are six-bed board and care houses. They have no signage and almost no online presence, which is the part of this market we are actually for.
Common questions
Care in Garden Grove, answered
- How many care homes are there in Garden Grove?
- The state register lists 48 licensed residential care facilities for the elderly in Garden Grove, with 887 licensed beds between them. Forty-two are six-bed board and care homes and six are larger communities.
- Can I find a care home with Vietnamese-speaking staff in Garden Grove?
- It is a reasonable thing to ask for in this part of Orange County, more so than almost anywhere else in the state. Ask each home which languages its caregivers speak on an overnight shift rather than during a daytime tour, because those are often different people.
- How far is Garden Grove from Anaheim?
- About ten minutes from our office. For most families we treat Anaheim and Garden Grove as a single search area.
Nearby
We cover the cities around Anaheim too
Families rarely care about city limits. They care about the drive on a Sunday, which usually means looking two or three towns wide.
Last reviewed . Figures are re-checked against their sources whenever this page is revised.
Ask us about language before anything else
If your mother is more comfortable in Vietnamese or Spanish, say so when you call. It genuinely narrows the list, and it is the kind of thing a directory cannot tell you.
Tell us who you are looking after
Four short questions. Nothing you answer is shared with a facility until you say so.
Prefer to talk now? (714) 975-9652, open every day until 6pm.