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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 does long-term care insurance typically cover for a senior in Ohio?

Long-term care insurance policies vary by contract, but most cover some combination of nursing home care, assisted living, home care, and adult day care up to a daily or monthly benefit cap and a lifetime maximum, after an elimination period. Ohio does not regulate benefit levels directly; what a specific policy pays depends entirely on its own terms, so families should review the actual policy document rather than assume standard coverage.

How does the cost of in-home care in Ohio compare to moving to a facility?

According to the 2025 CareScout survey, a non-medical caregiver in Ohio runs about $34 an hour, while assisted living runs a median of $6,103 a month. At roughly 20 hours a week, hourly in-home care can cost less than assisted living, but full-time round-the-clock in-home care quickly exceeds facility costs since hourly rates add up fast across 24-hour coverage.

What does Ohio's Long-Term Care Ombudsman do, and who covers Cuyahoga County?

Ohio's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program advocates for residents of nursing homes and residential care facilities, investigating complaints about care quality, residents' rights, improper transfer or discharge, restraint use, and abuse or neglect, free, confidential, and only with resident consent. Cuyahoga County falls under Region 10A, Eastern Lakefront, served by the Long-Term Care Ombudsman of Cleveland (LTCO) at 1-800-365-3112, which also covers Geauga, Lake, Lorain, and Medina counties.

What should I do if an assisted living facility in Cleveland won't resolve my complaint?

If direct conversation with facility management doesn't resolve a concern, escalate to the Region 10A Long-Term Care Ombudsman (1-800-365-3112) for advocacy and mediation, or file a formal complaint with the Ohio Department of Health at 1-800-342-0553 if the issue involves possible abuse, neglect, or a licensing violation. These paths can run in parallel; an ombudsman advocacy effort doesn't preclude also filing an ODH complaint.

What does the Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging actually do for families?

The Western Reserve Area Agency on Aging (WRAAA) covers Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, and Medina counties, offering benefits counseling, care coordination, funding for congregate and home-delivered meals, caregiver support, long-term care options counseling, and administration of the Region 10A Long-Term Care Ombudsman program. It does not cover Summit or Portage counties, which fall under a different agency, Direction Home Akron Canton.

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