Author: Erika Crossley

Erika Crossley, Houston senior living placement specialist, explains red flags when touring a senior living facility.

Erika Crossley, Houston senior living placement specialist, explains memory care vs assisted living — how to decide.

I’m excited to announce the launch of TexasSeniorCare.directory — a comprehensive directory of every HHSC-licensed senior care facility in the Houston metro area. Whether you’re a family looking for assisted living at 3 AM after a hospital call, or a discharge planner who needs options NOW, this directory has verified data on 100+ facilities across…

Let me tell you why I spend more time in Katy than almost any other market in the Houston metro area. Katy is booming. The population has grown significantly over the past decade, and the senior living market has followed right behind it. New communities have been opening along the Grand Parkway, around LaCenterra, and…

This is the conversation I have more often than any other, and I want you to know that you’re not alone in it. When a family in Houston looks at the numbers, $4,200 to $5,300 a month for assisted living, $5,300 to $7,500 for memory care, the reaction is almost always the same. “We can’t…

I’m going to do something that might seem counterintuitive for someone who runs a senior living advisory in Houston. I’m going to give you an honest, no-spin comparison of your three main options for finding assisted living for your loved one: using a national referral service like A Place for Mom, working with a local…

I have toured over 100 assisted living communities across the Houston metro area. Katy, Sugar Land, The Woodlands, Pearland, Cypress, Memorial, Humble, Friendswood, Spring, and everything in between. And let me share something that took me a while to learn: the communities that look the most impressive on the surface are not always the ones…

Most families I work with in Houston don’t even know that group homes exist. They think the only options are keeping Mom at home with a caregiver, moving her to a big assisted living facility, or eventually a nursing home. But there’s this whole other category of senior care that flies under the radar, and…

So here’s a scenario I get called about at least twice a week. Mom fell and broke her hip, or Dad had a stroke, and they’re in the hospital at Memorial Hermann or Houston Methodist or one of the Texas Medical Center hospitals, and the discharge planner just told the family that he can’t go…

Okay, so if you’ve ever tried to read the Texas Health and Human Services website to figure out whether Medicaid covers assisted living, you probably gave up within about ninety seconds. I don’t blame you. The state does not make this easy to understand, and honestly, I think a lot of families miss out on…