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Assisted Living in Shaker Heights, OH

Compare licensed assisted living in Shaker Heights and the surrounding Cuyahoga County area. Free guidance, no obligation.

2 verified in Shaker Heights
Cuyahoga County
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There are 2 verified assisted living options listed in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The Ohio Department of Health licenses and inspects these providers, and you can check any community's license status and inspection history free through the state search tool.

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Assisted living is for someone who is largely independent but needs a reliable hand with the everyday things — bathing, dressing, medications, meals, getting to appointments. In Ohio it is a licensed Residential Care Facility, not a medical setting. Staff are caregivers and med aides, not nurses on every shift.

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We list 2 verified assisted living options in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Assisted living and memory care in Ohio are licensed under a single Residential Care Facility license, and memory care additionally requires a written special care unit disclosure rather than a separate certification.

What to watch for with assisted living in Shaker Heights

  • Ask which services are included in the base rate versus billed as a separate care level. Base rent is rarely the real number; care levels can add several hundred to well over a thousand dollars a month.

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Verified assisted living in Shaker Heights

CommunityCare typeAddressCounty
StoryPoint Shaker HeightsAssisted Living17000 Van Aken Boulevard
Shaker Heights, OH 44120		Cuyahoga
The Woodlands of Shaker HeightsAssisted Living16333 Chagrin Boulevard
Shaker Heights, OH 44120		Cuyahoga

Assisted Living elsewhere in the region

Greater Cleveland's 7-county area is compact enough that families in Shaker Heights regularly place a parent one city over, especially when a specific care level is needed.

CommunityCare typeAddressCounty
Judson ManorIndependent Living1890 East 107th Street
Cleveland, OH 44106		Cuyahoga
St. Augustine TowersAssisted Living7821 Lake Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102		Cuyahoga
Algart Health CareAssisted Living8902 Detroit Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44102		Cuyahoga
Haven at LakewoodAssisted Living1341 Marlowe Avenue
Lakewood, OH 44107		Cuyahoga
O'Neill Healthcare LakewoodAssisted Living13900 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, OH 44107		Cuyahoga
Mount Alverna VillageIndependent Living6765 State Road
Parma, OH 44134		Cuyahoga

The Shaker Heights market specifically

Shaker Heights borders Cleveland's Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood along Shaker Boulevard, and shares the East Side's proximity to both major hospital systems.

Shaker Heights families often also consider Saint Luke's Manor just across the city line in Cleveland's Buckeye-Shaker neighborhood, since the two areas share a border along Shaker Boulevard.

What the contract does that the tour does not

The residency agreement decides what happens when things change: how care levels are reassessed and repriced, how much notice is required on either side, what the deposit covers and whether it is refundable, and what happens if the resident exceeds the RCF's 120-day skilled-nursing cap.

Ask for a blank copy to take home before you are asked to sign anything. A community that will not provide one has told you something useful.

You can check any Ohio facility's record free. Use the ODH Licensed Facilities Search for current license status and inspection history, and the Ohio Department of Aging's Long-Term Care Quality Navigator for consumer-facing detail. Assisted living is not CMS star-rated. Read the full explanation →

Questions Cleveland families ask

What is a CCRC or Life Plan Community, and are there any in the Cleveland area?

A Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), also called a Life Plan Community, offers a continuum of care on one campus, independent living, assisted living, and often skilled nursing, typically under a contract that lets a resident move between levels of care as needs change without relocating to a new organization. In Ohio, the assisted living and nursing home components of a CCRC are still licensed separately as an RCF and a nursing home, respectively, under their own OAC chapters.

What's the difference between short-term rehab and long-term nursing home care in Ohio?

Short-term rehab typically follows a hospital stay and focuses on recovering function through physical, occupational, or speech therapy, often covered for a limited period by Medicare, within a nursing home building licensed under OAC 3701-17. Long-term nursing home care serves residents whose needs are ongoing rather than recovery-focused, and is typically funded through private pay, long-term care insurance, or Medicaid once resources are exhausted, rather than Medicare's short-term rehab benefit.

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.

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