Cost of Memory Care

My grandmother was in WA. Her MC ran about $7000/month 3 years ago. This was not the highest level of care(it was about one or two levels to go…highest was maybe $8-9 thousand)and was for a semi-private room(shared bathroom between two bedrooms). It was private pay with the promise to allow her to age in place and have a Medicaid bed when her funds ran out. This did not cover “disposables” (gloves, soap, shampoo, incontinence wear, etc.), prescriptions or any of the “beauty parlor” extras(hairdresser, manicurist, etc.).

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Private room @ $8800 in Hampton Roads, VA., without any tiered payment. Semi-private was not going to be a good fit for Mom when she moved in. She'll be able to stay at the facility if she needs to go on Medicaid. Medicare and her private insurance have covered most of her medical requirements so far. We provide for her incontinence needs, bed & bath linens, laundry ($25/week), and personal care items.

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Entering as a self-pay resident tends to give more options if you anticipate needing institutional Medicaid at some point. Many of the nicer places that accept both have a limited number of beds designated for Medicaid recipients. Current residents who have spend down as self-pay will get first dibs on those beds which means getting one directly from home could mean a significant wait list.

Another point to consider about MCFs is that most require a resident to be ambulatory (some will allow a wheelchair if the PWD has used it long-term) and self-feeding. A fall with a broken hip or a stroke can take a MCF off the table in an instant leaving only SNFs as an option.

HB

in Portland OR $8500 seems to be the average. After a brief stay in memory care I brought my wife home and supplemented with home health care and it has worked out for the past year.

Just under $6,000/mo. for a hospitality-mode MCF in the Pittsburgh suburbs, according to my neighbor whose mother resides there. However, the facility will not allow the resident to continue to live there once they become a 2-person transfer.

DH is in an ALF with 5 levels of additional services and is in hospice care. I'm now paying $7,704/mo., not including cable and laundry, for the room and top level of care. If he were not in hospice care, he could not continue to live there because he has a chronic Foley catheter. He would then have to live in a nursing home. A year ago the nursing homes were charging $15,000-$18,000/mo. for private pay. We do not qualify for Medicaid because DH's pension is too high (though nowhere near even the $7700 we are paying).

Medicaid does not cover MCFs, ALFs or PCFs in Pennsylvania.

Wisconsin- I'm learning there's a range, $7-10k depending on location and all the other things (number of bird feeders per resident and landscaping budget - just kidding).