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7. I'm on Social Security ...

Reply to marybourg (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 06:30 PM

Oct 2017

... and get the national average, which is way lower than the cost of assisted living.

“In the Cost of Care Survey conducted by Genworth Financial, assisted living national median monthly rate is $3,750 ($45,000 a year)."

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Saw my doctor today [View all] left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 OP

They are expensive, that's for sure Siwsan Oct 2017 #1

Don't forget that if your aunt marybourg Oct 2017 #4

Had she not broken her hip, I'd have brought her home, when I retired Siwsan Oct 2017 #6

I Have you added up what it costs you marybourg Oct 2017 #2

I'm on Social Security ... left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #7

im dealing with this decision for my parents... samnsara Oct 2017 #3

As someone who lives in a retirement community marybourg Oct 2017 #5

If the doctor actually recommended assisted living PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2017 #8

"you can't be living on your own" left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #9