Ohio's 2024 CareScout medians put a home health aide at roughly $75,504 a year and homemaker services at roughly $73,216 a year -- both above the $66,000 assisted living median once care approaches full-time hours.
The detail behind the number
The math surprises a lot of families who assumed home care would automatically be the cheaper option. At a handful of hours a week, home care is almost always less expensive. But as weekly hours climb into the 30-40 hour range and beyond, the picture flips, and by the time a parent needs supervision around the clock, a licensed community's flat monthly rate usually beats stacking enough in-home caregiver hours to cover the same ground. Run the actual math for your parent's specific hours-needed estimate rather than assuming either option is automatically cheaper.
