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BASTROP, TX SENIOR ADVISING AND PLACEMENT SERVICES
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Senior Placement - Servicing Bastrop, TX and Surrounding Area Residents
Personalized Senior Placement
FREE
We provide complimentary guidance that assists you and your loved one in finding a senior community near Bastrop that fits your needs, budget, and desired location. Our depth of industry knowledge helps us check all the boxes on your list so you can find the right match.
We’ll connect you with a community that makes sense for your needs, with options that include
• Assisted Living
• Memory care
• Personal care homes
• Independent living
With us, you find a home, not just a place.
Expert Senior Advising
$150/HOUR
Before searching for placement for your loved one, chances are senior services are an unknown territory. Expert senior advising is here to help answer your questions before the decision-making process. We’ll address the unknown and provide valuable insight and information to answer questions such as:
• Should my loved one go to skilled nursing after a hospitalization?
• My mom was just diagnosed with dementia — what do I do now?
• What is the difference between home health and hospice?
• How does long-term care insurance work?
With us, you feel confident and calm in your decision-making process.
The Bastrop County math
Bastrop County has proportionally more seniors than Travis or Hays. About sixteen percent of residents here are sixty-five or older, compared with roughly twelve percent in Travis County. In absolute terms that is somewhere around nineteen thousand seniors.
Now the other half of that number. Across the entire county, there are roughly a hundred licensed assisted living and memory care beds, and only about sixteen of them are dedicated memory care.
That is the situation, stated plainly. More seniors, fewer places for them to go.
Bastrop is over-supplied in exactly one thing
There are three skilled nursing facilities in Bastrop, nearly three hundred beds between them, and five of the town's seven senior facilities sit within about half a mile of each other on Old Austin Highway. Locals know that stretch. It is effectively the senior care corridor.
The problem is that skilled nursing is not what most families need. If your father needs supervision, help with medications, someone noticing when he stops eating, but he does not need a nursing home, you are looking at a very short list. Two assisted living communities in Bastrop, one of which has the county's only dedicated memory care wing at sixteen units.
There is one option families routinely miss: one of the skilled nursing facilities on Old Austin Highway operates a secure memory support unit inside it. Because it is licensed as a nursing facility rather than as memory care, it does not show up in memory care searches. For a parent with dementia who also has a genuine skilled need, it can be the right answer, and almost nobody finds it on their own.
When Bastrop does not have a bed
It happens, and you should know the map in advance. Elgin is about twenty-five minutes north and has a small residential care home. Smithville, thirteen miles east, has a nursing home but no assisted living at all. Cedar Creek has neither. From there the realistic search moves to Del Valle, Lockhart, and southeast Austin.
Be careful with the national directory sites here. Search "assisted living in Bastrop" on one of them and it will return a hundred-plus communities, but past the first two results you are looking at Cedar Park, Round Rock, and Georgetown, all forty-five to seventy-five minutes away and on the wrong side of Austin traffic. That is not a real answer for a family that wants to visit twice a week.
No hospital, and what that means
Bastrop has emergency rooms but no full-service acute care hospital. The freestanding ER on Highway 71 states outright that patients needing inpatient care are transported to St. David's South Austin. The Ascension facility on the west side of 71 is a small neighborhood hospital operating as a department of Ascension Seton Hays in Kyle. Ascension Seton Smithville, thirteen miles east, received Critical Access Hospital designation in December 2025 and handles inpatient and outpatient acute care for the greater Bastrop County area.
For anything serious, a stroke, a bad fall, anything needing surgery, your parent is almost certainly leaving the county.
Which produces the specific problem Bastrop families face: the discharge conversation happens with a case manager in Austin or Kyle, thirty to forty miles from home, on a two or three day clock, while the available beds are back in Bastrop and the memory care option is a single sixteen-unit building that may or may not have space. That gap, between where the decision gets made and where the beds actually are, is the hardest part of doing this in Bastrop County, and it is the part we are most useful for.
On cost
Here is something worth knowing that runs against the general assumption.
Assisted living in Bastrop genuinely does cost less than in Austin. The rural discount is real, and for a family that can use it, the savings are meaningful.
Memory care does not work that way. With a single dedicated memory care option in the county, there is no competitive pressure on price, and Bastrop memory care runs comparable to Austin. Scarcity cancels the discount.
That is not a reason to give up. It is a reason to start early, because in a market this thin, availability drives the decision more than price does, and the families who call before the crisis have options that the families calling during one do not.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Our senior placement services helps seniors find the best place to live given their desired location, finances, and care needs. We specialize in helping seniors find right-for-you care in Bastrop, TX.
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A placement specialist can help you determine what level of care your loved one needs and narrow down the many options available. Additionally, a placement specialist helps guide you through touring facilities, your decision-making process, and moving your senior comfortably into their new home. Not sure what level of care your loved one needs? Our Activities of Daily Living checklist can help you get started.
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Placement services at Clement Senior Solutions are NO COST to you. We are compensated by communities when we place a client in their building.
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We have walked the same journey you are on personally and professionally. At one point in time, we’ve been the ones confused and lost. Now, we help you bridge that gap so you can feel assured and less stressed in your decision-making process.
We guide you through every step, simplifying your journey by providing information and guidance that helps you make confident and informed decisions.
We are locally owned and operated and our reputation in the community is vital to our business.
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The most recent Cost of Care Survey from CareScout, formerly Genworth, puts the median cost of assisted living in Texas at about $5,250 per month as of their 2024 survey. What you actually pay depends heavily on where you look and what level of care your parent needs, and prices in the Austin area generally run above the state median. We will walk you through real numbers for the specific communities we think fit, before you tour anything. If you're weighing how savings fit into this decision, we've written about using a rainy day fund for senior living costs.
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The placement process timeline is determined by you. Some people need to move in a week, while others are looking to move in three months. We work with your timeline and comfort level during the process.
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Our senior advising service is a great place to start. At Clement Senior Solutions, we charge $150/hour in 15-minute increments and can provide information, resources, and guidance regarding everything about aging. We can act as a mentor, offering a one-time session, or walk alongside you for as long as you need.
We require you to sign an authorization of services form before starting services.
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Our personalized assessment will help you understand the best level of care for your loved one. Ultimately, each Assisted Living or Memory Care community has a nurse evaluate your loved one to determine the best fit for their community.
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It may be time to ask for guidance when daily routines, meals, medications, transportation, safety, or caregiver stress are becoming harder to manage. Clement Senior Solutions helps Bastrop families understand whether senior living may be the right next step.
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Two licensed assisted living communities in Bastrop, one of which includes the county's only dedicated memory care wing at about sixteen units. There are also three skilled nursing facilities and two age-restricted apartment communities, though the apartments provide no care or meals despite sometimes being listed as independent living. It is a thin market and we would rather you hear that from us than discover it over three weeks of phone calls.
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Yes, but very little. One community has a dedicated memory care wing of roughly sixteen units. There is also a secure memory support unit inside one of the skilled nursing facilities, which does not appear in typical memory care searches because of how it is licensed. Between the two, Bastrop County has a genuinely limited supply, so availability moves fast. If dementia is part of your parent's picture, starting the conversation early matters more here than almost anywhere else in the metro.
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Bastrop has emergency rooms but not a full-service acute care hospital. Serious cases are transferred to Austin or to Kyle. Ascension Seton Smithville, about thirteen miles east, received Critical Access Hospital designation in December 2025 and provides inpatient and outpatient acute care for the surrounding area. In practice, if your parent has a stroke or a significant fall, expect the discharge planning conversation to happen outside Bastrop County.
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Assisted living, yes, meaningfully. Memory care, no. With only one dedicated memory care option in the county there is no price competition, so memory care here runs comparable to Austin rates. It is a useful distinction to understand before you build a budget around the assumption that everything east of Austin costs less.
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This is the most common conversation we have here, and it deserves a real answer rather than a sales pitch. Sometimes staying is possible with home health and the right support, and we will tell you when we think that is true. Sometimes the county simply does not have what your parent needs, particularly with memory care, and the honest answer involves a move. What we will not do is tell you there are plenty of local options when there are not. We would rather you trust what we say when it matters.
Clement Senior Solutions is support for your loved one when you need it and support for your family always.
Finding compassionate care shouldn’t feel complicated.
We understand how overwhelming and time-consuming it can be to find a senior community to call home. With our senior placement services, you have a personal advocate who works on your behalf. We save you time and stress so your family can comfortably make this transition for your loved one.