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In-Home Care in your area

Caregivers and skilled clinicians who come to the home, from a few hours a week to around-the-clock support.

Quick answer

Ohio's Department of Health regulates in-home care under its Residential Care Facility and nursing home licensing rules.

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In-home care covers two different things that families often conflate. Non-medical home care is help with daily activities, companionship and household tasks. Home health is clinical care ordered by a physician and delivered by licensed staff.

Short answer

We list 3 verified in-home care providers across your metro. In-home care covers two different things that families often conflate.

Three things worth knowing first

  • Non-medical home care is generally private pay. Medicare does not cover it. Get your state's CareScout non-medical caregiver hourly median.
  • Medicare-covered home health is intermittent and skilled — nursing visits, physical therapy — not a caregiver who stays with your parent.
  • Once you need more than roughly forty to fifty hours a week, run the math against assisted living.
You can check any facility's record free. The Ohio Department of Health licenses and inspects RCFs and nursing homes; ask any community for its most recent state inspection report directly. Read the full explanation →

Verified in-home care across the region

We list 3 verified in-home care providers across your metro. The full table with addresses and counties lives in the directory.

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In-Home Care by city

Questions families ask

Is Ohio's Medicaid expansion the same thing as long-term care Medicaid for seniors?

No. Ohio expanded Medicaid under the ACA in 2014 for lower-income adults generally, using an income-based (MAGI) test. Long-term care Medicaid for seniors uses a completely different, non-MAGI aged/blind/disabled eligibility pathway that predates the ACA expansion.

Does Ohio's Assisted Living Waiver have a waiting list?

Waiver capacity and waitlist status change over time and are not a fixed fact this site publishes a number for. Ask the Council on Aging of Southwestern Ohio directly for current status before assuming either way.

What happens to a Medicaid recipient's estate after they pass away in Ohio?

Ohio's Medicaid Estate Recovery Program can seek repayment from the estate of a Medicaid recipient who received long-term care services, generally pursued after the recipient's death and, where a spouse survives, typically deferred until after the surviving spouse's death.

What does assisted living cost in Ohio?

The 2024 CareScout Cost of Care Survey put Ohio's assisted living median at roughly $66,000 a year, or about $5,500 a month, statewide. No Cincinnati-metro-specific figure is published by any primary source.

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