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After
leveling off last year, the cost of adult day care services went up by
4.5 percent to $70 per day. But the average cost of home health aides
and homemaker/companion service rates remained unchanged at $21 and $19
per hour, respectively.
The
survey also reports on the cost of a semi-private room in a nursing
home, which also increased 4.4 percent to $214 a day, or $78,110 a year.
The cost of a semi-private room in an Alzheimer's wing rose from an
average of $75,190 to $81,030 annually.
Once
again, the highest rates for a private nursing home room in 2011 were
found in Alaska, where the average cost dropped slightly from $687 a day
to $655 a day. The lowest rates were found in Louisiana (with the
exception of Baton Rouge and the Shreveport area), at and average of
$141 a day.
The
cost of assisted living was the highest in the Washington, D.C., area,
at $5,757 a month and the lowest in Arkansas (except for Little Rock) at
$2,156 a month. Average home health care aide services ranged from a
high of $34 an hour in Rochester, Minnesota, to $14 and hour in the
Shreveport area of Louisiana. Adult day care services were highest in
Vermont at an average of $148 a day and lowest in the Montgomery,
Alabama, area, at $29 a day, a $2 drop from 2010.
Costs.
Private room nursing home rates rose 4.4 percent to $87,235 a year or
$239 a day, while assisted living facility costs jumped 5.6 percent on
average to $41,724 a year or $3,477 a month.
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