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What Senior Care Costs in Greater Cleveland

Published Ohio median costs for assisted living, memory care, nursing homes, in-home care and adult day care, with the caveats that matter.

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What senior care costs in Greater Cleveland

Short answer

The 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey puts the Ohio median for an assisted living community at $6,103 a month and a private nursing home room at $10,389. CareScout does not publish a Cleveland-specific or Cuyahoga County figure, so treat these as a statewide starting point, not a local quote.

These are the published Ohio statewide medians from the 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey (The survey formerly published under the Genworth name is now released by CareScout, a Genworth subsidiary.), based on rates collected July through November 2025, from more than 25,000 provider rates nationwide.

Type of careMonthlyAnnualRate
Assisted living community$6,103$73,230$196 per day
Nursing home, semi-private room$9,186$110,230$302 per day
Nursing home, private room$10,389$124,666$342 per day
Homemaker services$6,483$77,792based on 44 hours per week
Home health aide$433$5,200based on 44 hours per week; see caregiver_caveat
Non-medical caregiver——$34 per hour
Private duty nurse at home——$100 per hour, or $85 per visit
Adult day health care$1,798$21,580$83 per day

For contrast, the 2025 national medians are $6,200 a month for an assisted living community, $9,581 a month ($315 a day) for a semi-private nursing home room, $10,798 a month ($355 a day) for a private nursing home room, $35 an hour for a non-medical caregiver, and $95 a day for adult day health care.

Read the home care lines carefully. CareScout's Ohio 'home health aide' figure ($433 a month) is far lower than its 'homemaker services' figure ($6,483 a month) and lower than the hourly non-medical caregiver rate would suggest for full-time care. This is a real, published state median, not a transcription error, but it should not be read as the cost of full-time in-home care; CareScout itself has begun merging homemaker and home health aide reporting into a single 'non-medical caregiver' hourly category ($34 an hour in Ohio, $35 nationally) going forward, precisely because these older category definitions were inconsistent. For budgeting full-time in-home care, use the hourly non-medical caregiver rate multiplied by expected weekly hours, not the home health aide line.
On memory care pricing: CareScout does not survey memory care as a separate category, so no authoritative memory care median exists for Ohio or for Cleveland. Any memory care price quoted online is an estimate, not survey data.

Why we do not publish a Cleveland-specific figure. No primary source publishes a Cleveland-specific or Cuyahoga County-specific cost figure. Cleveland-area pricing likely varies significantly by neighborhood, with the East Side inner suburbs and Lake County generally commanding higher rates than more rural stretches of Geauga, Medina, or Portage counties. Ask each community directly for a current all-in monthly quote. You will find sites quoting a precise Cleveland number. We could not trace any of them to a primary source, so we do not repeat them.

Source: 2025 CareScout Cost of Care Survey state median tables

Questions Cleveland families ask

What veterans' benefits exist to help pay for senior care in Ohio?

Beyond VA Aid & Attendance, which supplements a veteran's pension based on unreimbursed medical expenses, eligible veterans may access VA-run or VA-contracted home care, adult day health care, and in some cases VA community living centers, depending on service-connected status and local VA facility availability. The Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center is the primary VA hub for benefits navigation in the region.

How do I help my parent transition after a dementia diagnosis in Cleveland?

Start with an honest conversation about safety, daily functioning, and the parent's own wishes, and use the diagnosis as an opportunity to establish or confirm powers of attorney while the person can still participate in the decision. From there, evaluate whether in-home support, adult day care, or a memory care special care unit, with its required OAC 3701-16-07(F)(5) disclosure, best matches current needs, since dementia care needs typically evolve over time rather than settling at one level.

What is respite care and how do I access it in the Cleveland area?

Respite care provides short-term, temporary care for a senior so their regular family caregiver can rest, travel, or handle other responsibilities, delivered either in-home, at an adult day program, or as a short overnight stay in a licensed facility. Ohio's PASSPORT waiver covers some respite services for eligible participants, and the Area Agency on Aging serving your county, Western Reserve or Direction Home Akron Canton, can help identify local respite options and any available funding.

What senior care resources exist in Cuyahoga County, Ohio?

Cuyahoga County is served by the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging (WRAAA) and falls under MyCare Ohio's Northeast Ohio region and the Region 10A Long-Term Care Ombudsman, the Long-Term Care Ombudsman of Cleveland. As the region's population center, with about 265,000 residents 65 and older, Cuyahoga also has the largest concentration of assisted living and memory care communities, especially in the East Side inner suburbs and West Side lakefront corridor. The county also runs its own Adult Protective Services line through the Division of Senior and Adult Services, at 216-420-6700.

What senior care resources exist in Lake County, Ohio?

Lake County is served by the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging and is included in MyCare Ohio's Northeast Ohio region and the Region 10A Long-Term Care Ombudsman. With about 24.5% of its roughly 232,000 residents age 65 or older, Lake County has the highest senior population share of this site's seven counties, and it relies on Laketran's Dial-a-Ride and fare-free Seniors on the Go program for transportation, distinct from Cuyahoga's RTA system.

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