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A1 Elder Care

2538 E Larkstone Drive #a, Orange, CA 92869

Google Street View · imagery from 2025-05. This is the house, from the street.

Board & care home · 6 beds · Hospice waiver

A1 Elder Care is a state-licensed board-and-care home in Orange, California, licensed for 6 residents and operating since 2019. The state has approved it to care for 6 residents who cannot walk unaided. It is approved to care for residents with dementia. It holds a hospice waiver for 4, which means a resident who goes on hospice can stay here rather than being moved somewhere unfamiliar at the end of her life. Its record with the state shows no citations and no substantiated complaints in the last 24 months. It is a house, on an ordinary street, with six residents or fewer.

The facts, from the state

What the state says about this home

Nothing in the last 24 months. The findings below are older, and the home filed a plan of correction.

The state has inspected this home 12 times, most recently on 5/20/2026. There have been 4 complaint investigations, and 3 allegations were substantiated. The home has been cited 3 times — for resident admission and assessment, food service and nutrition, resident rights. A plan of correction is on file.

A plan of correction was filed on 05/30/2025, 05/17/2024, 12/09/2022, 12/22/2022, 12/05/2022, 11/24/2022, 11/22/2022 — each one is the home telling the state what it changed, and the state accepting it.

Source: California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division — facility record 306005599 , licensed since 2019. Retrieved 2026-08-29. You can verify any home yourself at the state's Care Facility Search.
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What this home is approved to do

How this home compares in Orange

A1 Elder Care is one of 73 licensed care homes in Orange, and one of 67 small board-and-care homes among them. It is one of 54 that holds a hospice waiver, one of 67 approved for residents who cannot walk unaided, and one of 45 approved for dementia care. It is among the 64 of 73 homes in Orange with no citation and no substantiated complaint in the last 24 months.

Counted across every licensed home in Orange from the state's own record, on 2026-08-29. We publish the comparison because a family cannot see it from one page, and no other directory holds the underlying data.

This is a small residential board-and-care home — six residents or fewer, in a house, on an ordinary street. For many families it is calmer, cheaper, and far better staffed per resident than a large community.

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