New analysis details where the cost for home health aides is highest — and lowest

Effective Aug 5, 2019

Published Aug 5, 2019

Last Reviewed Aug 5, 2019

The price patients and clients pay for home health care can vary greatly from state to state or city to city.

Care was most affordable — as a percentage of annual household income — in Maryland (64.5%), West Virginia (68.5%), District of Columbia (68.9%), Connecticut (71.3%), and New Jersey (711.8%), according to a recent study by Senior Living.

But the cost as a percentage of annual household income was least affordable in Washington (145.4%), Maine (112.2%), Montana (108.1%), Oregon (106.0%) and South Dakota (105.7%).

Senior Living conducted the calculations based on Genworth’s Cost of Care study.

Related links: Find Senior Living’s analysis at http://bit.ly/2ZuS7WO. Find Genworth’s Cost of Care study at http://bit.ly/2GFcHfF.

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