Editorial standards

How does Boise Senior Advisor source its facts?

Every rule we describe is tied to the text of IDAPA 16.03.22 or the statute or agency page it came from, and every number traces to one named publication: CareScout's 2025 state tables, IDHW program pages, the Idaho Commission on Aging, the Census Bureau's Vintage 2025 estimates and the VA's current pension tables.

These are the documents we work from:

• IDAPA 16.03.22, Residential Assisted Living Facilities (current rules)
• Idaho Code Title 39, Chapter 33, Residential Care or Assisted Living Act
• IDHW Residential Assisted Living Facilities (RALF) program
• IDHW RALF Facility Search (licenses and survey results)
• IDHW Certified Family Homes
• IDHW Home and Community Based Services
• IDHW Nursing Home Coverage
• Idaho Commission on Aging: Area Agencies on Aging and contacts
• Idaho Commission on Aging: Adult Protective Services
• CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, state data tables
• CMS Care Compare nursing home provider data
• VA Veterans Pension rates
• U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 estimates

What does Boise Senior Advisor refuse to publish?

Anything we cannot trace back to a primary record: invented averages, facility claims that are not in IDHW or CMS data, testimonials, star ratings of our own making and reviews.

• No Boise or Treasure Valley price median; the only published Idaho cost figures are statewide.
• No memory care price median; nobody publishes one.
• No grade or ranking for assisted living; IDHW's Gold and Silver awards are shown as IDHW's, and nothing else.
• No amenities or prices lifted from operator marketing.

When is the Treasure Valley directory rebuilt?

Each rebuild uses the registry pulled from IDHW's RALF search (the version on the site was retrieved November 6, 2026) and the CMS nursing home file dated October 1, 2026; the fetch script can be rerun at any time.

Listing pages print their data date in the source line. The sitemap's last-modified date for a page moves only when that page's text actually changes, not on every rebuild.

Why does the site leave out phone numbers from some state lists?

IDHW's Bureau of Facility Standards provider lists carry an Idaho Code 74-120 notice that they may not be used as a telephone or mailing list, so we do not republish them; nursing home, home health and hospice details come from CMS open data instead.

Assisted living phone numbers shown on facility pages come from IDHW's public facility search, which families use to contact buildings directly.

How are mistakes fixed?

Write to advisors@boisesenioradvisor.com with the page address and what needs changing. We fix display errors ourselves; a wrong license field or CMS figure has to be corrected at its source, and we will tell you which agency to contact.

When a benefit amount or rule changes, we check the new figure in the agency's own document first, update the reference page that owns it, and then every guide that quotes it.