New Hampshire Senior Care – Adult Nursing Home & Elder Care

New Hampshire’s senior-care prices are pretty middle-of-the road for the Northeast. The state’s estimated adult day-care and nursing home prices are low for the region. Its home care, home health-care and assisted living rates are a bit above average.

 

Approximate number of facilities:

• Nursing homes: 78
• Assisted living residences: 142*

 

Types of care available:

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

 

Estimated average prices:**

• Adult day care: $63 per day
• Home care: $22 per hour
• Home health-care: $24 per hour
• Assisted living: $ 4,356 per month
• Nursing home, semi-private room: $270 per day
• Nursing home, private room: $295 per day

 

State websites for seniors:

• New Hampshire Legal Assistance: Senior Citizens Law Project
• Alton Senior Center
• Office of the Attorney General: information for senior citizens
• Health Facilities Administration
• Rules for health-care facilities (including long-term care facilities)

 

Where to report elder abuse:

• In domestic/community care: 1-800-351-1888
• In nursing homes: 1-800-442-5640

 

Financial assistance (partial list):

• Medicaid
• ServiceLink Aging and Disability Resource Center
• New Hampshire Family Caregiver Support Program

 

Top-10 largest cities:

•  Manchester
•  Nashua
•  Concord
•  Derry
•  Rochester
•  Salem
•  Dover
•  Merrimack
•  Londonderry
• Hudson

 

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

 

Berlin
Coos County Nursing Home
Saint Vincent de Paul Rehabilitation and Nursing Center

 

Epsom
Epsom Healthcare Center

 

Exeter
Exeter Healthcare
Riverwoods at Exeter

 

Fremont
Colonial Poplin Nursing Home

 

Hanover
Kendal at Hanover

 

Hillsboro
Hillsboro House Nursing Home

 

Hudson
Fairview Nursing Home

 

Manchester
Saint Teresa Rehabilitation and Nursing Center
St. Joseph Residence
Villa Crest

 

Nashua
Courville at Nashua

 

North Conway
Merriman House

 

Rochester
Rochester Manor

 

West Stewartstown
Coos County Nursing Hospital

 

Whitefield
Morrison Nursing Home

 

Windham
Warde Health 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.