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"Get to know the warm, friendly environment at The Waterford at Fitchburg and you'll see how thoughtful amenities and world-class services co..."
READ MOREThe average cost of assisted living in the county is $4,363 a month. This guide is a starting point covering the cost of assisted living care in the county, as well as financing options to pay for it. You’ll find in-depth information on 89 Assisted Living Communities in Dane County and several in surrounding areas. The Cost of Senior Care in Dane County, WI
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"Get to know the warm, friendly environment at The Waterford at Fitchburg and you'll see how thoughtful amenities and world-class services co..."
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"Centrally located near downtown Madison, the University of Wisconsin Arboretum and just down the road from Hatchery Hill Towne Center, Avalo..."
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"_______________________________________ Heritage Senior Living of Monona features a full range of amenities and services for seniors to t..."
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"Brookdale Madison West (formerly Wynwood of Madison West) welcomes seniors seeking outstanding personalized assisted living care, innovative..."
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"_________________________________________ Heritage Senior Living of Middleton features a full range of amenities and services for seniors..."
READ MORE6916 Century Avenue, Middleton, WI 53562
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"At Brookdale Middleton Century Ave (formerly Sterling House of Middleton), our focus is on creating an environment in which our residents fe..."
READ MORE275 North City Station Drive, Sun Prairie, WI 53590
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"If you are looking for convenience, camaraderie, and high quality care, Talamore Sun Prairie is the community offering that and more. We hav..."
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"When your loved one joins Prairie Gardens, they will create new memories here: new memories filled with friends and caring staff who quickly..."
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"Eden Vista Madison provides assisted living services in a fun environment. Located just minutes from downtown Madison near area attractions,..."
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"_________________________________________ Providing excellent services for Madison seniors, Madison Pointe is an inviting and warm senior l..."
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"________________________________________ Providing excellent services for Stoughton-area seniors, Stoughton Meadows is an inviting and warm..."
READ MORE2620 Military Rd. #9683, Cross Plains, WI 53528
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"Our Cross Plains home is a CBRF (community-based residential facility) assisted living community that offers a secure, home-like environment..."
READ MORE1936 Tennyson Ln, Madison, WI 53704
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"Tennyson Retirement Living is the ideal retirement community - located blocks from Warner Park (home of the Madison Mallards) and around the..."
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"Oak Park® Place Nakoma is located on the west side of Madison in the well-established Nakoma neighborhood offering skilled nursing, rehabili..."
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"_________________________________________ Providing excellent services for McFarland seniors, McFarland Villa is an inviting and warm senio..."
READ MORE5475 Westshire Circle, Waunakee, WI 53597
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"Life is a journey. And no matter where it leads, we all need a place to call home. Sylvan Crossings Assisted Living in Westshire Village pro..."
READ MORE5765 Chapel Valley Rd, Fitchburg, WI 53711
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"Life is a journey. And no matter where it leads, we all need a place to call home.Sylvan Crossings at Chapel Valley provides that home when..."
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"______________________________________ Welcome to Heartsong Assisted Living. Our inviting senior living community offers residents the comf..."
READ MORE6205 Mineral Point Road, Madison, WI 53705
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"Oakwood Village University Woods off Mineral Point Road sits amid nearly 30 acres of wooded grounds that include sidewalks and a nine-acre n..."
READ MORE222 South Bristol Street,, Sun Prairie, WI 53590
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"The Lighthouse of Sun Prairie, our newest community, is scheduled to open early in 2013. At Lighthouse of Sun Prairie, beautiful and creativ..."
READ MORE400 North Morris Street, Stoughton, WI 53589
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"Waunakee Manor is a Continuing Care Community. This means Continuity of Care is consistent, and as someone ages, they are cared for by the s..."
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"Refund Plan: Declining balance refund over 25 mos. Priority Assisted Living and Nursing Care on Fee-For-Service basis."
READ MORE2220 Lincoln Avenue, Stoughton, WI 53589
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"___________________________________________ Milestone Senior Living Stoughton is a beautiful assisted living community nestled in high on..."
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"Conveniently located just 10 minutes north of Madison among rich farmlands and rolling hills, Parkside Independent and Assisted Living retir..."
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"Homestead Living is a 16 bedroom Residential Facility that has been serving our community's Memory Care needs for the last 25 years. We are ..."
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"Our unparalleled apartments are spacious, bright and comfortable with an element of elegance that cannot be found in any other independent a..."
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1870 Market Street, Cross Plains, WI 53528
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"___________________________________________ Milestone Senior Living Cross Plains is an assisted living community nestled on a hillside of..."
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"______________________________________________ Faith Living Center, in Sun Prairie, is a unique community providing for individualized expe..."
READ MORE201 W. Madison Street, Cambridge, WI 53523
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"________________________________________ Enabling our residents to maintain a sense of purpose and zest for life is our mission at Cambridg..."
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7710 SOUTH BROOKLINE DRIVE, Madison, WI 53719
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"Cedarhurst of Verona offers compassionate senior care in Verona, WI. We strive to create a home-like atmosphere where you and your loved one..."
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325 West Cottage Grove Road, Cottage Grove, WI 53527
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"Consisting of two sister communities located next to each other, KindredHearts of Cottage Grove offers seniors the best in homelike and pers..."
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"Sage Meadow of Middleton is sandwiched between the Pheasant Branch Conservancy and Lake Mendota, providing residents with ample resources fo..."
READ MORE200 Cross Street, Waunakee, WI 53597
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"Offering personalized independent and assisted living services and first-class amenities, KindredHearts of Sun Prairie is a vibrant senior c..."
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"Home Again's newest community in Waunakee is Now Open! This beautiful new location will have many new unique features like an on-site chef,..."
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"The population is aging and changing dramatically. Sienna Crest is attuned to the shifts in health, finances, family relationships, and mobi..."
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"Westshire Village at the Lake is set on the northern shore of Lake Mendota, a scenic 20-minute drive from Madison, WI. Nearby Town Center Pa..."
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"Emerson Assisted Living is a beautiful ranch-style home on 1.25 acres in a residential neighborhood located at 402 Rustic Drive, Madison, WI..."
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"Ingleside Communities is located on seven acres of rolling hills on the edge of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. We're just a short 15 minute drive f..."
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"Cedarhurst of Madison offers compassionate senior care in Madison, WI. We strive to create a home-like atmosphere where you and your loved o..."
READ MORE4897 Innovation Drive, De Forest, WI 53532
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"Named in honor of our owner's beloved Grandmother Marion, The Koselig House is the premier provider of Assisted Living and Memory Care in De..."
READ MORE"My community is based on caring for the mentally ill and brain trauma. We are a family base community and resident focus. We provide 24/7 ca..."
READ MORE"CherryTree is an Apara Care Community. CherryTree is a new assisted living community in Beloit, Wisconsin that will offer 48 units of afford..."
READ MORE6550 Schroeder Rd, Madison, WI 53711
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1001 Quinn Dr, Waunakee, WI 53597
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"Chamomile Assisted Living is nestled in a quiet residential neighborhood of Madison, Wisconsin, about 15 minutes northeast of the city cente..."
READ MORE2842 Cimarron Trail, Units #1 & #2, Madison, WI 53719
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"Home Again Assisted Living offers a personal touch in a home like environment with on-staff Registered Nurses. Dedicated to quality and serv..."
READ MORE405 N 8th St, Mount Horeb, WI 53572
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"The village of Mt. Horeb has over 7,000 people and among its farmland and fertile soil sits the Inglewood Residential Care Apartments. This ..."
READ MORE"Sienna Crest is an assisted living facility located in Marshall, a lovely community in the northeastern part of Dane County, WI. Situated ad..."
READ MORE"Whitcomb Square Apartments is located in Madison, WI. The capital city of Wisconsin, Madison offers seniors the chance to enjoy a thriving c..."
READ MOREChristopher Ory
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June 5, 2022
DO NOT LEAVE YOUR LOVED ONES HERE! All the positive reviews you might see are from before this facility changed hands to a new management company. It was pretty good then. Now it is an absolute dumpster fire. -They have repeatedly raised the rent on residents to the limit of ability to pay while slashing costs and reducing staff and services. -The food is awful. It\'s cheap and doesn\'t meet minimum nutrition requirements. -Their staff is nice but the facility is horribly understaffed and under-skilled. -For most of my mother\'s time there there has been no driver or activities director for the residents. They can’t keep staff for longer than a couple months. -There have been multiple COVID outbreaks leading to hospitalizations. These outbreaks have not been reported to the state as required. Every time I go the staff are unmasked. They quickly put masks on when they see me. The residents are all unmasked and gathering in communal areas. They won’t deliver food to residents\' rooms forcing them to eat together in the communal area. -It regularly takes up to 3 hours for them to respond to a help call from a resident. -There have been several injuries recently with no RN on duty or available when called. Including a broken leg where the resident had to wait 3 days in her room with the injury before someone could take her to a doctor. This facility has been on the state\'s radar for a while with multiple complaints of poor care. Be Warned..
ReviewerRD12122020g
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January 13, 2021
We're at The Jefferson. It's strictly independent, so we really have no help at all. We get three meals a day, which has been wonderful during the pandemic because they deliver three meals a day right to our apartment. We're so thankful for that. The Jefferson is pretty nice. They have a lot of things that would be offered in any senior community. However, they have very limited transportation. Actually, what we have is, they will take you Monday through Thursday to your medical appointments on a very limited schedule. The bus leaves here at 9:00 a.m., and you have to finish your appointment and be picked up and back here by noon. That's pretty limited. Then in the afternoon, sometimes, they will take you for a very quick trip to some of the nearby grocery stores. I think all of the staff members are caring people. We had lived in several different senior communities in Arizona before our family insisted that we come back here, and in all the ones we lived in Arizona there would be a staff person for whatever the thing was, like we had a person in charge of housekeeping, and we had the same housekeepers. It was always the same person. However, all these people who work here in The Jefferson interchange their duties. One day you may have them in the dining room, and the next day you may have them up doing housekeeping. It is so different from anything we have been used to. Maybe that's the way it is in a lot of places. Some days the food is wonderful. Other days, I just don't eat it, and I will eat something that I have saved from some time before. Food is OK; it's pretty good. My husband thinks it's wonderful. I'm more picky than he is I guess. Activity is quite limited since COVID has set in. Prior to that, and even right now with COVID being as bad as it is, they're trying to have a maximum of ten people at a time for a session of bingo like a couple of times a week. We had bridge in Arizona, but they don't have bridge here. They show movies nearly every night a week. They have a room where they show some movies. Both my husband and I have not been in the best of health since we have been here, so we don't do a lot with the activities. Before, they would have musical entertainment or some local people who are musicians who would come in, which was entertaining. The beauty shop has excellent people in it. Based on the rent that we pay, I don't think we're getting what we're paying for. Also, we have one elevator for all these many residents here, not only one elevator to get the residents from one spot to another, but only one elevator for people moving in or out. They don't even have a freight elevator.
Richard
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September 16, 2020
Everything seems quite good at The Jefferson. My friend is new so he's learning how they operate and what he is allowed and not allowed to do. Everybody's very friendly. They're trying to do what they can to help him when he has questions. It's a positive experience. I've personally been very happy about it. He seems to be getting along well. The only one person that I wasn't totally happy with was their maintenance man who had promised to help set things up and do things and then said, "I can't do that, I'm not supposed to do that." Maybe it was a misunderstanding on my part, but the rest of the staff has been great. The facility seems pretty good. The one thing I was concerned about right from the start is there's only one elevator and it probably could hold four people, but they have it restricted to two people with the virus going on. I don't see how people on the third floor are gonna get out of their if there's an emergency. I looked at other places and this one was the least expensive of the bunch. They're not cheap though. It's a reasonable value given what the cost of going to one of those homes is and what they do.
Jack H.
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January 8, 2020
My sister moved into the Jefferson. It has wonderful staff, they're very helpful, and they have a beautiful facility. It's independent, but they have a relationship with a higher level care providers that are able to provide additional support in place, like give medications and clean the house. They have the ability to bridge into higher level of care, but start as independent, kind of let someone age in place, without having to go to assisted living. It's a good location, with great food, and caring staff and it's a nice place. They have a professional concert band that plays there several days a week, they're really amazingly good, they have movies 4 nights a week, they have shuttle buses that take them to doctor's appointments or places they want to go, and they have art classes and lectures for people to come in and talk.
VB
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June 25, 2019
The Jefferson was rather small and much more limited than some of the other places we looked at, although the location was perfect. We were just looking for something with quite a lot more activity. The place was perfectly pleasant, it just wasn't quite what we were looking for. They need to be much bigger to have the resources to meet the standards of some of the other places we saw. Also, when we looked at the menus they offered, it was clear that there wasn't anything in there that I was interested in eating since I'm vegetarian. My husband wasn't impressed either. It was kind of Wisconsin comfort food, like burgers and meatloaf.
Marion
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February 12, 2019
The Jefferson's main area badly needed new carpeting. The man who was showing us around was not dressed professionally. Some of the staff was very obliging to talk to, though. It wasn't really bad, but it wasn't really good. They had a small workout room and had a hairdresser come in. People were friendly, and the chef seemed interesting. They had outings on a little bus. The building itself looked nice on the outside, and they had a big foyer. The grounds looked beautiful.
Shanda
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January 16, 2019
The Jefferson is an independent living plus facility. The residents are fairly independent for the most part, but they provide three square meals a day and weekly housecleaning. They have a variety of food, and my grandmother can choose which meal she wants. They have two weekly housecleanings, which includes linen cleaning, her bed being made, transportation, and some of the basic things that she's not able to do for herself. It was a huge draw but when you add in the amount of care that the staff members have for the residents and the respect that they show, it's absolutely astounding. It will be a great place for her and they have the ability for her to age in place. As she needs more care and more services, they have programs there that you can add on to be able to keep her comfortable in her home for as long as possible. She loves the activities. There's a variety from adapted physical activities as well as card games, social activities like movie night and activities for New Year's Eve. They're always asking the residents for feedback and adding things in and adjusting. The food is absolutely fantastic.
Evamarie
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March 14, 2018
I really like The Waterford at Fitchburg, that's why I chose it. The staff is very nice and helpful, and I don't have any complaints. The grounds look very pretty, and the location is convenient for me.
kar
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February 12, 2018
Lazy staff. The new management never interacts with the residents. The Dementia Care area smells like urine and the resident's look dirty. Staff spends more time on their cell phones than taking care of my family member. It's a dump.
Assisted living costs an average of $4,363 per month in Dane County, which is just $63 more than the median rate in Wisconsin, and $363 higher than the national average of $4,000. Monthly rates fluctuate considerably between other communities across the state, from a low of just $2,638 in La Crosse to a high of $5,000 in Oshkosh.
Prices for assisted living are near the national average in Green Bay ($4,075) and Janesville ($4,068), and they’re close to the state median ($4,300) in Milwaukee, where seniors pay $4,264 per month.
Note: Data for senior care costs in Dane County wasn’t available, so data for the county seat, Madison, was used instead.
Dane County/Madison Area
$4,363
National Average
$4,000
State Average
$4,300
Oshkosh Area
$5,000
Racine
$4,888
Milwaukee Area
$4,264
Janesville Area
$4,068
Fond du Lac
$3,744
La Crosse Area
$2,638
Senior care costs in Dane County tend to vary due to various factors. The skill level of care, number of dedicated service hours and whether room and board are included all affect the rates seniors pay. Compared to assisted living ($4,363) room-and-board prices, home health aides ($4,767) and nursing homes ($8,821) provide personalized care, but the 24/7 skilled nursing services available in nursing homes explain why these facilities charge over $4,000 more than assisted living communities, while home health aide services average $400 more per month. In-home services from homemakers ($4,004) average about $350 less than assisted living expenses. The rates for in-home care cover service hours only, so costs for food, upkeep, utilities, taxes and insurance must be added to the in-home care prices for a realistic cost comparison.
Assisted Living
$4,363
Homemaker Services
$4,004
Home Health Aide
$4,767
Adult Day Health Services
$1,842
Nursing Home Care
$8,821
Residents of Wisconsin who can’t afford health insurance may qualify for coverage through the Wisconsin state Medicaid program. Those who meet the eligibility requirements receive a range of health care benefits, including:
Reverse Mortgage
Dane County homeowners who need extra monthly income to cover assisted living costs for one spouse may consider applying for a reverse mortgage. Instead of requiring a regular payment to a lender, this type of mortgage provides homeowners with a monthly equity-based check to use as needed. When the last borrower moves out or the property is sold, the lender must be repaid in full. The homeowners’ ages, financial situation and equity level determine eligibility and how much is received each month.
For more information about reverse mortgages, interested seniors can contact Elderlife Financial Services at (888) 228-4500.
State Supplemental Payment
Residents of Dane County who receive SSI benefits can also qualify for a monthly stipend from the state of Wisconsin. The amount of this State Supplemental Payment is based on a person’s income and living arrangement, but the maximum available is $179.77 per individual.
To apply for federal SSI and Wisconsin state SSP benefits, seniors can call the Social Security Administration at (800) 772-1213.
The Dane County Area Agency on Aging operates the ADRC as an aging-related resource hub for local seniors and their families. County residents can receive free information, advice and referrals for valuable resources, including nutrition programs, in-home support services, long-term care options counseling, disability services, case management and public health care benefits. ADRC of Dane County
2865 N. Sherman Ave., Madison, WI 53704
(855) 417-6892
The Veterans Service office of Dane County has trained staff available to help senior veterans and their loved ones identify and apply for local, state and VA benefits.
Veterans in need of medical services can visit the Madison West VA outpatient clinic for primary care, medication and disease management, lab work and nutrition counseling. Referrals for specialist care at the city’s Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital are also provided.
Dane County Veterans Service Office
210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., Madison, WI 53703
(608) 266-4158
Madison West VA Clinic
1 Science Ct., Madison, WI 53711
(608) 284-6360
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