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Assisted Living in your area

Help with daily activities in a community Indiana licenses as a Residential Care Facility (RCF), with meals, housekeeping and medication assistance included.

Quick answer

Indiana regulates assisted living through the Indiana Department of Health.

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Assisted living is for someone who is largely independent but needs a reliable hand with the everyday things — bathing, dressing, medications, meals, getting to appointments. Indiana licenses these communities as Residential Care Facilities (RCF) under 410 IAC 16.2-5, a single license type, not tiered by evacuation ability the way Texas tiers Type A/B.

Short answer

We list 49 verified assisted living providers across your metro. Assisted living is for someone who is largely independent but needs a reliable hand with the everyday things — bathing, dressing, medications, meals, getting to appointments.

Three things worth knowing first

  • Ask which services are included in the base rate versus billed as a separate care level.
  • Ask whether the community holds a PathWays Waiver provider agreement and, separately, an RCAP room-and-board agreement, and how many current residents use each.
  • Ask what happens if your parent's needs exceed the community's RCF admission/retention limits under 410 IAC 16.2-5.
How Indiana licenses assisted living. Indiana licenses assisted living as a Residential Care Facility (RCF) under 410 IAC 16.2-5 -- one license type, not tiered like Texas's Type A/B. Read the full explanation →

Verified assisted living across the region

We list 49 verified assisted living providers across your metro. The full table with addresses and counties lives in the directory.

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Questions families ask

What does memory care cost in Indiana?

There is no published memory-care median for Indiana or any other state -- CareScout does not survey it as a category. Any memory-care price you see quoted online is an estimate or an extrapolation, not a sourced figure. Get quotes in writing from each community instead.

What does a nursing home cost in Indiana?

CareScout's 2025 survey puts Indiana's nursing home median at $8,943 a month for a semi-private room and $10,326 for a private room. Semi-private figures are often Medicaid-weighted and lower than a private-pay quote you'd actually be offered.

What does in-home care cost in Indiana, and when does a community become cheaper?

Indiana's 2025 CareScout median for non-medical home care is $35 an hour. A 40-hour week already runs about $6,067 a month, above Indiana's assisted living median -- so once care needs push past roughly 40 hours a week, it is worth running the math against a community's monthly rate.

Does Indiana have a state program that pays assisted living rent directly?

No broad, non-Medicaid state subsidy pays a family's assisted-living rent directly in Indiana. Available help is narrower: the PathWays Waiver for care services, RCAP for room-and-board assistance paired with a facility's waiver agreement, and VA Aid and Attendance for eligible veterans and surviving spouses.

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