Montana Senior Care – Adult Nursing Home Elder Care

If you’re 65 or older, Montana’s apparently the place to be in the Northwest. Almost 15 percent of Montanans fall into that age range. That’s among the highest percentages in the country. Montana also has the lowest assisted living and nursing home rates in the region.

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes: 84
• Assisted living residences: 184*

 

Types of care available:

• Adult day care
• Home care
• Home health-care
• Continuing-care retirement communities
• Assisted living facilities
• Residential care homes (adult foster care)
• Nursing homes

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $84 per day
• Home care: $20 per hour
• Home health-care: $21 per hour
• Assisted living: $ 2,932 per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $182 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $194 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• Health-care facility licensing and certification
• Rules for health-care facilities (PDF download)

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 1-800-551-3191
• In nursing homes: 1-800-551-3191

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• Medicaid
• Montana State Health Insurance Assistance Program

 

Top-10 largest cities:

•  Billings
•  Missoula
•  Great Falls
•  Butte-Silver Bow
•  Bozeman
•  Helena
•  Kalispell
•  Havre
•  Anaconda-Deer Lodge County
• Miles City

 

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

 

Anaconda
Community Nursing Home of Anaconda

 

Baker
Fallon Medical Complex Nursing Home

 

Big Sandy
Big Sandy Medical Center Long-Term Care

 

Billings
Aspen Meadows Retirement Community

 

Chinook
Sweet Memorial Nursing Home

 

Columbia Falls
Montana Veterans Home Nursing Home

 

Deer Lodge
Deer Lodge Care & Rehabilitation Center

 

Ekalaka
Dahl Memorial Nursing Home

 

Eureka
Good Samaritan Society – Mountain View Manor

 

Fort Benton
Missouri River Medical Center Nursing Home

 

Glasgow
Valley View Home

 

Hamilton
Marcus Daly Memorial Hospital Transitional Care Unit

 

Hardin
Heritage Acres Nursing Home

 

Havre
Northern Montana Care Center

 

Ronan
Mountain View Care Center

 

Wibaux
Wibaux County Nursing Home

 

Wolf Point
Faith Lutheran Home

 

*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.