Before the 1980s, nursing homes were the only type of senior care option for aging adults who couldn't live on their own, didn’t have the money to pay for in-house nursing or didn’t have family who ...

The Caring.com analysis identifies Mississippi as the most affordable state overall for senior care, followed by Texas and Arkansas. The least affordable states: Hawaii, followed by Connecticut and ...

Aging isn’t just hard on your health — it can be hard on your wallet too. Genworth Financial’s 2023 Cost of Care Survey reports that the median cost of assisted living facilities is $5,350 per month.

With Medicaid reimbursements for skilled nursing units failing to keep up with the cost of care needed, some operators are shifting away from the practice ...

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The onset of the pandemic brought intense staffing challenges across all forms of long-term senior care facilities. A 2022 survey from the Agency for Healthcare Administration (AHCA) found that 87% of ...

More than 800,000 adults in the U.S. reside in an assisted living facility, according to the American Health Care Association, but the number of facilities and average costs vary widely from state to ...

AARP says the average family spends more than $7,000 a year caring for an aging parent — about 26% of their income — creating ...