Those figures are the national medians from CareScout's 2025 Cost of Care Survey: adult day health care at the bottom, a private nursing home room at the top. Which one your family needs is a question about hours, not about which setting sounds right — and that question has an arithmetic answer you can get in under 30 seconds.
Data: CareScout Cost of Care Survey — 2025 national medians
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Data: CareScout Cost of Care Survey — 2025 national medians. National medians — your local price can differ by up to 40%. Every row links to the page that breaks that care type down.
| Care type | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Non-Medical Caregiver (In-Home) | $6,673 | $80,080 |
| Adult Day Health Care | $2,058 | $24,700 |
| Assisted Living Community | $6,200 | $74,400 |
| Nursing Home — Semi-Private Room | $9,581 | $114,975 |
| Nursing Home — Private Room | $10,798 | $129,575 |
These are the categories that come up again and again when people try to keep someone at home longer. Prices change constantly, so instead of quoting a number that will be wrong next month, here is what to check before you buy.
Falls are the most common reason a family moves from home care to a facility — and the most expensive to recover from.
A rollator with a seat and brakes lets someone stay mobile — and keep the hours of paid care lower.
Most falls happen in the bathroom. Grab bars and a shower chair are the cheapest intervention on this page.
If the person is alone for part of the day, this is the difference between a fall and a fall found hours later.
A recurring cost families rarely budget for — and one of the first things that pushes hours of care up.
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This site exists to answer the cost questions families actually have. If there is a number you could not find — a state, a care type, a benefit offset — tell us and we will build it.
In-home care assumes 44 hours per week — the calculator lets you change that, and every figure above moves with it.
Open the care cost calculator →Each guide works out the price of one setting in full: what is included, what gets billed on top, and the point at which it stops being the cheaper choice.
Every care type here is priced per month except this one, which is billed by the hour. That one difference is what makes in-home care cheap at 15 hours a week and the most expensive option at 50.
The cheapest care type in the survey, and the one families most often skip past without pricing. Here is what a day of attendance buys compared with the same hours of in-home care.
The most common step up from care at home. What the monthly fee covers, what gets billed on top of it, and the two line items to ask for in writing before signing.
Two published rates, and a $14,600-a-year gap between them. Room type and billing period (31-day months cost more than 28-day months) are the two things that move this number.
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