Living Map
Living Map – costs & availability by area
The Living Map is meant to give you a clearer sense of how care, services, and housing options look in different places — not just one facility at a time, but at the level of neighborhoods and regions.
Over time, this page will pull together public data on prices, availability, staffing, and coverage (Medicaid, Medicare, private pay, and veterans’ benefits) to help you compare areas before you make big decisions.
Start by narrowing down an area
This mockup shows how you’ll eventually be able to explore different areas. For now, the controls are illustrative — they’re here to show the direction, not live data.
In a later version, these filters will drive real data pulled from public sources.
Example snapshot: Houston, TX (mock data)
This example shows the kind of high-level view the Living Map can provide for a metro area — not just one facility, but patterns to look at before you zoom in.
Availability & mix (mock)
Houston area
- Skilled nursing facilities: ~40
- Assisted living communities: ~60+
- Memory care programs: ~25+
- Home care providers: dozens (varies by ZIP)
Cost signals (mock ranges)
- Home care hourly (non-medical): $25–$35/hr
- Assisted living monthly: $3,500–$6,000+
- Memory care monthly: $4,500–$7,000+
- Nursing home private room: $8,000–$11,000+/mo
Ranges only — actual pricing depends on facility, level of support, and coverage.
Medicaid & coverage (mock)
- Facilities taking Medicaid: many, but with variable capacity.
- Wait lists: depend on facility & level of care.
- Medicare: primarily for rehab/short stays, not long-term custody care.
The goal here is to help you see patterns — not to replace official eligibility or coverage tools.
How this connects to facility-level insights
The Living Map is the “where” view — which areas are more accessible, more expensive, or more constrained. The Facility Insights dashboard is the “which facility” view — looking at inspection patterns, staffing signals, ownership changes, and public reports for specific locations.
Used together, they’re meant to help you:
- Choose which areas to focus on before you start calling or touring.
- Understand how local costs and availability line up with your budget and support system.
- Ask better questions when speaking with facilities, agencies, or professionals.
What this page does today vs. later
Right now, this page is a structured mockup — a way to define what will matter on the map (cost ranges, availability, coverage mix, and risk signals) before any real-time data is wired in.
As Maisage grows, the Living Map can be tied to public datasets, inspection releases, and facility reports, with clear sourcing and update dates so you know what you’re looking at.