Assisted Living in your area

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. In Wisconsin, most communities marketed as “assisted living” are licensed as a Community-Based Residential Facility (CBRF), for five or more unrelated adults receiving room, board, supervision and up to three hours of nursing care a week, or as a Residential Care Apartment Complex (RCAC), which provides private apartments and can deliver up to 28 hours a week of supportive care — a materially higher care ceiling than a CBRF.

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 accepts Family Care or IRIS, Wisconsin's two Medicaid long-term-care programs, and how many current residents use one of them — room and board is generally not covered by either, even when care services are.
• Ask what happens if your parent's needs exceed a CBRF's roughly three-hour-per-week nursing ceiling, since that can trigger a required move to a higher level of licensed care.

Verified assisted living across the region

We list 15 verified assisted living providers across your metro. The full table with addresses and counties lives in the directory.

• St. Camillus Life Plan Community — Wauwatosa
• Clement Manor — Greenfield
• Saint John's on the Lake — Milwaukee
• Tudor Oaks Senior Living Community — Muskego
• Newcastle Place — Mequon
• Cedar Community — West Bend

See all 15 in the directory →