Massachusetts Assisted Living and Senior Care Resource

Massachusetts’s home-care and home health-care prices are among the highest in the Northeast. But its adult day-care prices are among the lowest.

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes: 425
• Assisted living residences: 285*

 

Types of care available:

• Adult day care
• Home care
• Home health-care
• Continuing-care retirement communities
• Assisted living residences (including residential care homes)
• Nursing homes

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $59 per day
• Home care: $23 per hour
• Home health-care: $25 per hour
• Assisted living: $ 4,798 per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $324 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $348 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• Elder information: links to resources and programs

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 1-800-462-5540
• In nursing homes: 1-800-922-2275

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• MassHealth (Medicaid)
• SHINE (Serving the Health Information Needs of Elders)

 

Top-10 largest cities:

• Boston
• Worcester
• Springfield
• Lowell
• Cambridge
• Brockton
• New Bedford
• Fall River
• Lynn
• Quincy

 

Top nursing homes, based on Medicare ratings:***

 

Abington
Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation – Colony House

 

Amherst
Center for Extended Care at Amherst

 

Attleboro
Golden Living Center – Garden Place

 

Auburndale
Lasell House

 

Bedford
Carleton-Willard Village Retirement & Nursing Center

 

Boston
Armenian Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Goddard House, A Skilled Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Recuperative Services Unit – Hebrew Rehab Center
Roscommon On the Parkway
Sherrill House
South Cove Manor Nursing Home

 

Canton
Commons Residence at Orchard Cove

 

Cohasset
Golden Living Center – Cohasset

 

Dorchester
The Bostonian Nursing Care & Rehabilitation Center

 

Duxbury
Duxbury House Nursing Home

 

Fairhaven
Alden Court Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Framingham
Bethany Skilled Nursing Facility
Countryside Nursing Home

 

Gardner
Heywood Transitional Care Center

 

Gloucester
Seacoast Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

 

Groton
Seven Hills Pediatric Center

 

Hampden
Wingate at Hampden Rehabilitative & Skilled Nursing Residence

 

Haverhill
Lakeview House Skilled Nursing and Residential Care Facility

 

Hingham
Queen Anne Nursing Home

 

Holden
Wachusett Extended Care Facility

 

Holyoke
Holyoke Health Care Center

 

Hyde Park
Park Place

 

Lakeville
Island Terrace Nursing Home

 

Lawrence
The Berkeley Retirement Home

 

Lenox
Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center

 

Lexington
Brookhaven at Lexington

 

Littleton
Life Care Center of Nashoba Valley

 

Lowell
Lowell Health Care Center

 

Marlborough
Marlborough Hills Healthcare Center

 

Mattapan
Roscommon Extended Care Center

 

Melrose
Epoch Senior Healthcare of Melrose
Golden Living Center – Melrose
Tuell Nursing Home

 

Methuen
St. Raphael’s Transitional Care Unit at Holy Family

 

Middleborough
The Neuro-Rehabilitation Center – Middleboro

 

Milford
Countryside Health Care of Milford

 

Nantucket
Our Island Home

 

Needham
Skilled Nursing Facility at North Hill

 

New Bedford
New Bedford Jewish Convalescent Home,
Royal Taber Street Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
Southeast Mass Health & Rehabilitation Center

 

Newburyport
Kindred Nursing & Rehabilitation – Brigham

 

Newton Upper Falls
The Stone Institute

 

North Andover
The Meadows

 

North Billerica
New England Pediatric Care

 

Northborough
Coleman House

Northbridge
Beaumont Rehab & Skilled Nursing Center – Northbridge

 

North Falmouth
Royal Megansett Nursing & Rehabilitation

 

Norton
Epoch Senior Healthcare of Norton

 

Norwood
Victoria Haven Nursing Facility

 

Oak Bluffs
Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Martha’s Vineyard

 

Peabody
Renaissance Gardens at Brooksby Village
Rosewood Nursing & Rehabilitation Center

 

Pittsfield
Berkshire Place

 

Plymouth
Golden Living Center – Plymouth

 

Quincy
Hancock Park Rehabilitation & Nursing Center
William B. Rice Eventide Home

 

Revere
Lighthouse Nursing Care Center

 

Rockland
Coyne Healthcare Center
Southshore Health Care Center

 

Sandisfield
Berkshire Health Care Center

 

South Natick
Riverbend of South Natick

 

Springfield
Park View Rehabilitation & Nursing Center

 

Stoneham
Bear Hill Nursing Center at Wakefield
Life Care Center of Stoneham

 

Stoughton
Kindred Nursing & Rehab – Blue Hills Alzheimer’s

 

Topsfield
Masconomet Healthcare Center

 

Waban
Waban Health & Rehabilitation Center

 

Waltham
Marquardt Nursing Center

 

Wareham
Tremont Health Care Center

 

Webster
Lanessa Extended Care Facility

 

West Roxbury
Spaulding Nursing & Therapy Center – West Roxbury
Stonehedge Health Care Center

 

Uxbridge
Lydia Taft House

 

Waltham
Meadow Green Nursing and Rehabilitation Center

 

Wellesley Farms
Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation – Newton & Wellesley Alzheimer’s

 

Westborough
Beaumont Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center – Westboro

 

West Bridgewater
Life Care Center of West Bridgewater

 

West Newton
Golden Living Center – Chetwynde
Golden Living Center – West Newton

 

West Yarmouth
Mayflower Place Nursing Center

 

Weston
Campion Health Center

 

Weymouth
Pope Nursing Home

 

Wilmington
Woodbriar of Wilmington Rehabilitation

 

Woburn
Woburn Nursing Center

 

Worcester
Jewish Healthcare Center
Knollwood Nursing Center
Notre Dame Long Term Care Center

 

Wrentham
Serenity Hill Nursing Center

 

*Assisted-living residence numbers are from the Department of Health and Human Services’ 2007 Residential Care and Assisted Living Compendium. According to the National Center for Assisted Living, this is the industry’s only resource for such data. Depending on the state, the number may or may not include small residential-care homes, such as adult foster care.

**Senior-care price estimates are based on the 2011 MetLife Market Survey of Long-Term Care Costs, which reports average rates,and the Genworth 2011 Cost of Care Survey, which reports median rates.

***Medicare rates nursing homes in four categories using a five-star system. These are the nursing homes with five stars in the “Overall” category. The ratings were accessed on Medicare’s Nursing Home Compare site in November or December 2011 and are subject to change. The Medicare ratings system isn’t perfect, so use additional criteria to evaluate nursing homes as well.