CareCheckHow we write and fact-check our guides
Families make expensive, hard-to-reverse decisions with this information. These are the rules we hold the guides to.
Independence
CareCheck takes no referral fees, placement fees, advertising, or sponsorship from senior living communities, referral services, or anyone they pay. No company reviews or approves a guide before it is published. Our only revenue is what families pay for a document review, so there is no commercial reason to favour any facility, chain, or type of care.
Sources come first
- Every factual claim about a law, a public program, a dollar figure, or a timeframe must be backed by a primary or official source: federal agencies (such as the VA, CMS, Medicaid.gov, and the Administration for Community Living), state licensing agencies and regulations, or recognised research.
- Sources are listed at the bottom of each guide. We don't cite referral directories, facility marketing, or encyclopedias.
- Program figures that change every year — VA pension rates, Medicaid income limits, cost-of-care survey numbers — are dated in the text, so you can see how current they are.
- Where rules differ by state, which is most of assisted living, we say so rather than state one rule as universal.
How a guide is produced
- Drafting. Guides are drafted by the CareCheck team, which uses AI writing tools as part of drafting. A tool is never the final word on a fact.
- Fact-check. Each claim is checked against the cited source before publication. Anything we can't verify is removed or rewritten as a question for the family to ask, rather than stated as fact.
- Review. Contract and cost guides are cross-checked against the way CareCheck's own analysis treats the same terms, so a guide and a review never tell a family two different things.
- Dating. Each guide shows the date it was last updated. We only change that date when the content actually changes.
What the guides are not
They are educational descriptions of common contract language and public programs. They are not legal, medical, or financial advice, and they don't replace reading your own documents or talking to an elder-law attorney, a benefits counselor, or your state's long-term care ombudsman. Free, independent help is available through the Eldercare Locator (U.S. Administration for Community Living).
No invented credibility
We don't publish testimonials, star ratings, or expert reviewers we can't name. If we ever add an outside reviewer, their name and credentials will appear on the guides they review.
Corrections
If you find an error, or a source that has changed, email support@assistedlivingcheck.com with the page and the problem. We aim to review every report within five business days and correct confirmed errors promptly, updating the guide's date when we do.