What is adult day care and how does it work in the Cleveland area?

Adult day care provides supervised daytime programming, meals, and social or health-related activities for seniors, typically allowing a family caregiver to work or rest during the day while a parent returns home each evening. Ohio's PASSPORT waiver covers adult day care as one of its supported services, and the 2025 CareScout survey puts the Ohio median cost at $1,798 a month ($83 a day).

How do I know when memory care becomes necessary instead of staying in standard assisted living?

The signal is usually a change in safety risk rather than the diagnosis itself, wandering, exit-seeking behavior, an inability to recognize danger, or care needs a standard RCF isn't staffed or secured to manage safely. Because Ohio doesn't certify memory care separately, the decision comes down to a facility's own assessment against its documented special care unit criteria, part of the OAC 3701-16-07(F)(5) disclosure, rather than a state-defined threshold.

What does the Ohio Department of Health license, and what law covers it?

The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) licenses Residential Care Facilities (RCFs), the single license type that covers nearly all assisted living and memory care communities in Ohio, along with nursing homes, home health agencies, and hospice. RCF licensing is governed by Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3721 and Ohio Administrative Code Chapter 3701-16. Nursing homes fall under a separate rule chapter, OAC 3701-17, so the two license types are not interchangeable.

The Kensington at Anna Maria | Independent Living in Aurora, OH

Independent living companion community on the same 70-acre wooded Anna Maria campus.

The Kensington at Anna Maria, at 849 North Aurora Road, offers independent living and functions as a companion community to Anna Maria of Aurora, located on the same 70-acre wooded campus in Aurora. This arrangement gives Kensington residents proximity to Anna Maria's assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing services, including the skilled nursing program that was named Ohio's number one nursing home on Newsweek's 2025 'Best Nursing Homes' list, should their care needs progress beyond independent living in the future.

Because The Kensington is specifically an independent living community without its own on-site assisted living, memory care, or skilled nursing services, it is best suited to seniors who are still fully independent but want the reassurance of a higher level of care being available nearby on the same campus, should that need arise later, without requiring a move to an entirely different property or organization.

Located on North Aurora Road in Aurora, a Portage County suburb southeast of Cleveland, The Kensington at Anna Maria's 70-acre wooded shared campus with Anna Maria of Aurora, combined with the strong, independently verified reputation of its companion skilled nursing facility just down the road, make it a distinctive independent living option for families thinking ahead to potential future care needs within the same family-owned campus.

Short answer

The Kensington at Anna Maria is an independent living provider at 849 North Aurora Road, Aurora, Ohio 44202, in Portage County.

Location and contact

Community	The Kensington at Anna Maria
Care type	Independent Living
Address	849 North Aurora Road, Aurora, OH 44202
County	Portage County, Ohio
Website	Official site

What we do not publish, and why. We list only details we confirmed against this provider's own published information. We do not publish bed counts, license numbers, pricing or quality ratings for this community because we could not verify them from a primary source. Aggregator sites publish those figures freely; some are wrong, and Austin's sister-site research turned up exactly this problem elsewhere in the network. Confirm licensing yourself using the state tools below, and get pricing in writing directly from the community.

How Ohio regulates this provider type. The Ohio Department of Health licenses and inspects this provider type, and publishes the record free. Read the full explanation →

Current license status and inspection history: ODH Licensed Facilities, Services, and Program Search (verify a facility's current license status)
Consumer-facing quality information: Ohio Department of Aging Long-Term Care Quality Navigator (consumer-facing information on assisted living and nursing homes; not a CMS-style star rating)
To report a concern: Ohio Department of Health, 1-800-342-0553, Live call coverage Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern. Voicemail is available 24 hours a day and is checked twice daily outside live hours.

Evaluating an independent living community. The questions that actually separate providers of this type. Read the full explanation →

Aurora in context

Cleveland proper holds a mix of historic University Circle campuses and West Side communities, and it is where the region's three major hospital systems concentrate discharge planning. Traffic between the East Side and West Side of Cleveland runs through downtown, which matters more for visit frequency than the map distance suggests.

Other independent living options near Aurora

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Eliza Bryant Village — Cleveland
Saint Luke's Manor — Cleveland
Garrett Square Senior Apartments — Cleveland
O'Neill Healthcare Lakewood — Lakewood
Mount Alverna Village — Parma

Listing details verified 2026-07-21 against the provider's own published information. We are not affiliated with this community and do not represent it. Details change — confirm directly before making a decision.

The Kensington at Anna Maria

Location and contact

Aurora in context

Other independent living options near Aurora

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