Senior Care Cost Calculator

These three care types serve different needs and come at very different price points. Adult day care is the least expensive nationally, since it provides supervised daytime care rather than round-the-clock support, useful for working family caregivers who need coverage during the day. In-home care and assisted living land in a similar range nationally, though which one costs more depends heavily on your state and how many hours of care you actually need. In-home care is typically billed by the hour, so the national figure here assumes close to full-time coverage, 44 hours a week, your actual cost scales with fewer or more hours. Assisted living is typically billed as a flat monthly rate covering housing plus a defined level of support. Memory care, for those with Alzheimer's or related dementia, isn't tracked as its own category in the core cost survey, but industry sources consistently put it 20-30% above standard assisted living pricing, reflecting the higher staffing and specialized training these units require. All of these figures come from the same industry survey used for this site's separate Nursing Home Cost Calculator, since institutional nursing home care is licensed and regulated differently from these three community-based options.