Does Medicare Cover Assisted Living?

Roberta Pescow, NerdWallet.com
Fri, 01/22/2021 - 3:15pm

Medicare generally doesn’t cover the cost of residing in assisted living communities, which are facilities that offer housing and custodial services — such as laundry, cooking and managing medications — for older adults. However, it does cover care received at skilled nursing facilities, which are equipped to provide more medical care than assisted living communities,... Roberta Pescow writes for NerdWallet.

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