Senior Care Reviews on Caring.com Reveal America's Best Assisted Living and Alzheimer's Care Communities

Premier Senior Living Reviews Award Program, "Caring Stars," Now in Fourth Year; Includes 805 Top-Rated Communities, with 33 Honored for Multi-Year Wins

San Mateo, CA; Jan. 13, 2015 – Today 805 assisted living and Alzheimer's care communities across the nation were named the "Caring Stars of 2015," a recognition for service excellence based on online reviews from older adults, family caregivers, and industry experts on Caring.com, a leading senior care website with 2.5 million unique visitors monthly and 70,000 consumer reviews.

The annual Caring Stars list originally launched in January 2012 as the premier senior living reviews award program, helping family caregivers and older adults narrow their senior living options to the best of the best, and quickly find the right assisted living or Alzheimer's care community for aging parents and other loved ones. To further highlight the most-acclaimed assisted living communities, this year Caring.com added a new category of winners, the Caring Super Stars, celebrating 33 communities that have won the award at least three of the years the program has been in place, including two communities that have won every year: Atria Windsor Woods in Hudson, Florida, and Brookdale at San Dimas in San Dimas, CA.

"The Caring Stars award helps signal to the public which communities are successfully delivering on their mission of serving older adults very well, making a positive impact with high-quality care, and reinforcing among their employees the special difference they make in residents' lives," said Caring.com CEO Andy Cohen. "We congratulate every Caring Star for earning this recognition, and thank the families who shared their feedback in reviews on Caring.com."

Any assisted living or Alzheimer's care community listed in the Senior Care Directory on Caring.com is eligible for the Caring Stars award. To be considered for Caring Stars 2015, the community had to: receive at least three new consumer reviews in the last year (including at least one 5-star review); possess a high overall average rating across all reviews on their listing to demonstrate excellence consistency; and have no unresolved negative reviews, to demonstrate responsiveness to critical feedback online.

In researching from among the 31,000 assisted living communities nationwide, Americans are increasingly relying on senior care reviews to guide their senior living inquiries, tours, and move-ins, per data from multiple original market research studies conducted by Caring.com in 2014, as well as insights from Caring.com's online directory and phone-based senior living referral services. And with the rising popularity of social media among Baby Boomers and older adults, the Caring Stars program has grown significantly over the years, from 120 winners in 2012, 383 winners in 2013, and 405 winners in 2014, to the 805 announced today, who are located in 43 states and 323 counties across the country.

To view the complete Caring Stars of 2015 list, please visit https://www.caring.com/bestseniorliving. Local families and seniors interested in learning more about the best assisted living and Alzheimer's care communities may also call Caring.com's free senior living referral helpline: (866) 824-8174.

With millions of visitors to its flagship website, Caring.com, Caring is a leading senior living referral service and the nation’s top site for senior care reviews. Founded in 2007, Caring’s mission is to help as many seniors and their caregivers as possible through empathetic, expert guidance. Applying cutting-edge technology to this humane mission, Caring provides relevant senior care information and support, as well as comprehensive senior living and senior care directories for the United States, including nearly 400,000 consumer reviews. Through a toll-free referral line at (800) 558-0653, Caring’s trusted, nationwide team of Family Advisors — who are among the most highly trained, highly skilled, and knowledgeable experts in senior care — helps seniors and their families research and connect to the most appropriate services and support for their specific situations. For more information about our organization and our free services for seniors and their families, please visit http://www.caring.com/about and join with Caring on Facebook.