This is general information, not a coverage decision and not medical advice. Rules change, and a Medicare Advantage plan can differ from Original Medicare. Confirm a specific stay with Medicare, the plan, the hospital discharge planner, or your county Aging and Disability Resource Connection.
Assisted living and memory care are often advertised as a pair. The Department of Health licenses them separately. This directory follows the license, not the brochure.
Assisted living licenses
- An Assisted Living Residence is apartment-style housing, meals, and assisted living services for four or more adults. Residents generally have a lockable apartment.
- A Comprehensive Personal Care Home provides room, board, and assisted living services. The living space is usually a bedroom rather than a full apartment.
- An Assisted Living Program brings assisted living services into certain subsidized housing. It is not a stand-alone assisted living building.
Memory care in this directory
A Residential Dementia Care Home is a smaller, secured setting licensed specifically for people living with dementia. Those homes are listed under memory care. An assisted living building may market a memory care wing. That wing is not given its own listing unless the state licensed it as a Residential Dementia Care Home. If the license says Assisted Living Residence, that is all this site claims.
What the public file leaves out
Monthly private-pay price, current openings, and whether the community accepts NJ FamilyCare or MLTSS are not in the license file. Ask the community.
For NJ FamilyCare / MLTSS, see the NJ Medicaid and MLTSS guide. This page does not explain eligibility or payment.
- Is the door lockable, and is the unit an apartment or a bedroom?
- How is a dementia household secured, and can people still go outside?
- Who gives medications, and is that included?
- What happens when care needs increase?
- May I see the latest Department of Health inspection?
Sources
- New Jersey Department of Health, long-term care file
Assisted Living Residence, Comprehensive Personal Care Home, Assisted Living Program, and Residential Dementia Care Home licenses.
Source dated 2026-10-13
- NJ Division of Medical Assistance and Health Services, MLTSS
Whether a community accepts MLTSS is not in the license file. This page does not interpret eligibility or payment.
Source dated 2026-10-14