Assisted Living, Memory Care and Board and Care Placement in Lomita

Lomita covers about 1.91 square miles, according to its General Plan, at the base of the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Los Angeles (which includes Harbor City), Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes all border it.

State licensing data from the California Department of Social Services shows, as of November 2026, 15 licensed residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs) in Lomita, with 95 beds in all. Fourteen of them are small homes licensed for six or fewer residents. Lomita has no large licensed assisted living or memory care community.

So a Lomita search often comes down to a choice: a small home in town, close to the house your parent knows, or a larger community a few minutes away in Torrance, Harbor City or on the Peninsula. Hamssa can lay out both and tell you which may fit your parent's needs and budget.

Lomita's General Plan steers new building onto its commercial corridors, Pacific Coast Highway, Lomita Boulevard and Narbonne Avenue, to protect the lower-density residential neighborhoods next to them. Small licensed homes are typically houses on residential streets like these.

Board and care homes, licensed in California as RCFEs, are ordinary houses with a few residents, meals cooked in the home's kitchen and caregivers who help with bathing, dressing and medications. Every home is different. Read more about board and care placement, and keep these questions in mind on a tour.

• How many residents live here now, and how many caregivers are on duty at night?
• Are there steps at the front door, and will a walker or wheelchair fit through the bathroom door?
• Can the home care for a person living with dementia, and is the house secured against wandering?
• If your parent's needs grow, can they stay, or would they have to move?
• Our guide comparing board and care with large memory care communities goes further.

The City of Lomita runs Lomita CARES, short for Community Activities and Resources for Elders. Its classes at Lomita Park include Balance & Memory, Fall Prevention for Seniors, chair yoga and gentle yoga, and the Lomita Good Timers social club meets on Thursdays. None of this is part of Hamssa LLC, but it is worth knowing about while a parent still lives at home.

The city's resource list also includes Dial-A-Ride, its taxi service for seniors and residents with disabilities; free non-emergency wellness checks by Community Safety Officers; and Torrance-Lomita Meals on Wheels for people who cannot shop or cook.

Several hospitals are close to Lomita. Torrance Memorial Medical Center and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance are in Torrance, Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center is on Vermont Avenue in Harbor City, and Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro is to the south. If a case manager at any of them says your father cannot go home alone, start with hospital discharge placement. Hamssa does not place people in skilled nursing facilities.

The work starts with a conversation about your parent's care needs, health, habits and monthly budget. Hamssa refers families only to licensed homes she has toured and interviewed, and she checks each home's state licensing record for citations and complaints. You can look a home up yourself with our guide on how to check an RCFE license.

She schedules the tours and goes on every one with you, helps you talk terms with the home you choose, and checks in after the move. Her placement help is free for families, and this page explains how that works.

Hamssa works alone, so you deal with one person the whole way. She speaks English, Arabic and Spanish, and she meets families at the homes they tour, not at an office.

To begin, call, text or email Hamssa. Tell her where your parent is today, what help is needed, and how soon a decision has to be made.