Albuquerque Senior Advisor
What does Albuquerque Senior Advisor do?
Albuquerque Senior Advisor is a free referral and advisory service for families choosing senior care in Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, Los Lunas and the rest of the four-county metro: we publish the state's licensing records for assisted living, CMS ratings for 22 nursing homes, and a local advisor helps you narrow the list.
Communities pay us a referral fee when a family we helped moves in, which is how the service stays free to you. We say that here rather than in the fine print because it is the first thing you should know about any placement service.
How does New Mexico license assisted living?
The New Mexico Health Care Authority licenses every assisted living facility that cares for two or more adults under one rule, 8.370.14 NMAC, rewritten effective December 23, 2025; there is no separate license for small homes, and facilities with secured memory care units must meet an extra section of the rule.
Size still matters: the overnight staffing minimum rises at 16, 31 and 61 residents. Of the metro facilities with a known size in our directory, 29 are licensed for 15 or fewer residents. Who licenses assisted living in New Mexico →
Where is memory care around Albuquerque?
Memory care in New Mexico is a secured unit inside a licensed assisted living facility, with controlled-access doors, a secure outdoor area and trained staff awake in the unit at all times; HCA's directory does not flag which facilities run one, so ask each facility for its written secured-environment disclosure.
Memory care units in the metro →
What does senior care cost in New Mexico?
CareScout's 2025 survey puts New Mexico's median at $5,950 a month for an assisted living community, $30 an hour for a non-medical home caregiver and $9,125 a month for a semi-private nursing home room. No Albuquerque-specific figure is published, and no source publishes a memory-care median.
Does New Mexico Medicaid pay for assisted living in Albuquerque?
Turquoise Care, New Mexico's Medicaid program, pays for care services in assisted living through its Community Benefit for members who need a nursing facility level of care and meet the financial limits, but it does not pay room and board, which the resident still owes.
How the Community Benefit works →
Areas with their own page
- Albuquerque (by area)
- Northeast Heights
- Southeast Heights and Four Hills
- West Side and Northwest Mesa
- North Valley and Downtown
- South Valley and Southwest Mesa
- Rio Rancho
- Corrales
- Bernalillo and Placitas
- East Mountains (Tijeras, Cedar Crest, Sandia Park)
- Los Lunas
- Belen
- Bosque Farms and Peralta
- Moriarty, Estancia and Torrance County
What a senior advisor does and does not do
| We do | We do not | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost to your family | nothing, ever | charge families or take deposits |
| Facility information | show HCA and CMS records as published | invent ratings |
| Recommendations | match licensed facilities to care needs and budget | steer you only to facilities that pay us |
| Decisions | help you compare and tour | sign contracts or make medical decisions for you |
