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Example, my Dad paid around $5200 a month when he first moved in his 2 bedroom independent living apartment which had a large living room and full size kitchen, he got a discount because it was January when the rental market at facilities were much slower. With that cost he received once a week housekeeping which included vacuuming, dusting, cleaning the kitchen and bathroom... plus linen service where the bedding is washed and replaced, so are the towels.
Electricity was an extra $85 per month, and telephone service was an extra $40 per month. He wore a pendent but that was an one time cost with no monthly fee. His rent included dinner in the main dining room. The nurse would assess Dad once a month. And he got physical therapy which was paid for by Medicare and his secondary insurance.
Later down the road my Dad needed pill management as he wasn't taking his pills correctly. That was an extra $600 per month. Then he needed a higher level of care being he was getting dementia and was a fall risk, and that was an added $2000 a month. So that monthly rate really grew.
And like I had mention location, location, location. We live in a large metro area outside of Washington DC thus the cost of housing is much more then say if we had lived in a small town in the mid-west.