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10 Best Memory Care Facilities in Elwood, NE

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If your loved one needs memory care in Elwood, A Place for Mom can help. With 38 memory care facilities in Elwood, we’ll work with you to find the right fit for your family member’s budget, interests, and care needs.

Alzheimer’s care in Elwood incorporates memory care activities and therapies to reduce residents’ confusion and agitation. Elwood memory care also provides security features and supervision, along with trained staff. If you’re considering dementia care in Elwood, know it’s a safe setting for your older relative.

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Photo of Broadwell Senior Living Kearney
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My mom has been very happy with Broadwell as an I. Staff is so kind. Administration is very thorough, helpful and friendly. Facility is very clean and well kept. I would and have highly recommended Broadwell...
Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
Welcome to Kearney's newest Senior Living community. We are located across from Kearney Regional Medical Center to the west and Yanney Park to the east. Broadwell offers restaurant style dining with a view of our courtyard opening up to the park. Our staff has over 60 years combined experience...
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The staff is excellent. They are patient & kind. They facility is clean & has a great outdoor space. We are grateful for them. (And for A Place for Mom for all the help)
Provides: Memory Care
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Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
Welcome to CountryHouseDevoted exclusively to benefiting those living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, CountryHouse residence for memory care is not “typical” memory care. We’re all about experiences. Do more. Engage more. Live more.Walk into any CountryHouse community and see...
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I would have to give them all 5's. My mom is liking Kinship a lot. She is in independent living so there is not really any care required. The people are friendly, the food is good and it's a fine facility.
Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
Here it’s all about choices—your choices. With several floor plans to choose from so you’ll be able to find just the right space for you. With plenty of natural window light and space, some apartments even have garden views and a private balcony or patio. You’ll also have a working kitchen. And...
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7.5
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The staff are very friendly and helpful. My grandma has a hard time seeing and tremors and they always make sure her menu is filled out at lunch and help make sure her menu sure her food is cut up for easy...
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
In the spirit of love, Bethesda Adult Communities provides an environment where vintage lives blossom.  We strive to cultivate a vibrant, active and healthy community.  Bethesda Adult Communities are apart of a non-profit Christian based organization that have been caring for seniors...
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I thought it was going to smell and have cement block walls like the one where I'm from. nope, so nice, clean and caring staff. Mom loves the wine at happy hour and bingo. I am happy she is happy. thats...
Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
When you have all the comforts of home and none of the responsibilities for its upkeep, you can sit back and savor the little things. Run your fingers over the expansive book selection in the library before choosing a title that speaks to you. Savor the sweetness of a waffle cone—and the...
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My mom is well taken care of and she really likes it at Heritage Plaza Retirement.
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Photo of Avamere at Lexington
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Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
Avamere at Lexington's goal is to give you more time to pursue those activities you love and for us to meet each person's individual needs. The atmosphere is warm. Relaxed and the ambiance embraces the uniqueness of the local culture.At Avamere at Lexington, our month-to-month rent, without...
Provides: Assisted Living, Independent Living
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
Photo of Emerald Nursing and Rehab Cozad
Provides: Assisted Living, Nursing Homes
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Nursing Homes: Nursing homes provide short-and long-term care for seniors who have physical or mental health conditions that require 24-hour nursing and personal care.
What kind of healthcare are you looking for -- long-term nursing services? a little help with day-to-day activities? specialized care for a loved one showing signs of Alzheimer’s disease? Regardless of the level of care you need, our goal is to provide dignified, personal care assistance in a...
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Provides: Assisted Living
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Photo of Hilltop Estates
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Stone Hearth has been great so care, the community is very clean, the staff are very friendly, and we have been very pleased with the care services. Our loved one first went into assisted living for about a...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
Stone Hearth Estates is an assisted living community located in Gothenburg, Nebraska in Dawson county. Gothenburg is a lovely small town located in the heart of Nebraska and Stone Hearth Estates is located on the edge of it. This location means that resident of Stone Hearth Estates have a...
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Photo of Senior Living Choices
Provides: Assisted Living
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
For seniors needing assistance with activities of daily living, Senior Living Choices offers studio and one bedroom apartments. Our specially designed architectural layout promotes a unique home-like envionment without a long hallway that hints at an institutional atmosphere. These apartments...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living
Care types provided by this community
Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Memory Care: Memory care facilities provide housing, care, and therapies for seniors who have Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia in an environment designed to reduce confusion and prevent wandering.
Independent Living: Independent living facilities offer convenient, hassle-free living in a social environment for seniors who are active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
In elegant, residential environments, we deliver the finest in senior care, and are recognized internationally for both quality and innovation. Guided by our Principles of Service, Sunrise affords families peace-of-mind by providing today's seniors with a range of personalized assisted living...
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
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Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
Photo of Midwest Homestead Of Kearney
Provides: Assisted Living
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Assisted Living: Assisted living facilities offer housing and care for active seniors who may need support with activities of daily living, like bathing, dressing, and medication management.
As we turn the pages of our lives – growing up, working, experiencing loves and losses, raising our own children – we all experience times when we need a little extra help. At Homestead, we have created an environment which combines and celebrates these memorable aspects of life and creates new...

Cost of memory care in Elwood, NE

The average cost of senior living in Elwood is $3,394 per month. Cheaper nearby regions include Bertrand, NE with an average of $1,700 per month.

Memory care costs in Elwood, NE, vs. nearby cities

Elwood, NE
$3,394/mo
$2,278/mo

Memory care costs in Elwood, NE, vs. state and national averages

Elwood, NE
$3,394/mo
U.S. national average
$4,794/mo

Memory care costs in Elwood, NE, vs. other senior living options

Memory Care
$3,394/mo

Memory care costs in Elwood, NE, by floor plan type

Semi-Private
$5,895/mo
Studio
$4,113/mo
1 Bedroom
$4,112/mo
2 Bedroom
$4,134/mo

Senior living costs in Elwood vs. state and national costs

Cost comparison table showing community type costs by location. This table contains 3 rows of data across 4 columns.
Column communityType: Community type
Column destination: Elwood, NE
Column state: Nebraska
Column national: U.S.
Community typeElwood, NENebraskaU.S.
Memory Care$3,394/mo$4,138/mo$4,794/mo
Assisted Living$3,394/mo$4,158/mo$4,557/mo
Independent Living$3,030/mo$3,309/mo$4,016/mo
Memory Care
Elwood, NE:$3,394/mo
Nebraska:$4,138/mo
U.S.:$4,794/mo
Assisted Living
Elwood, NE:$3,394/mo
Nebraska:$4,158/mo
U.S.:$4,557/mo
Independent Living
Elwood, NE:$3,030/mo
Nebraska:$3,309/mo
U.S.:$4,016/mo
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Memory care costs in Elwood, NE, over time

The line graph below shows how monthly memory care costs have shifted over the past five years in Elwood and how those changes compare with state and national trends. The figures represent quarterly averages of what seniors actually paid after moving into A Place for Mom partner communities.

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Memory care cost trends in Elwood, NE

The table below shows how monthly memory care costs in Elwood have changed in the last two years and how those changes compare with state and national trends. The figures represent averages of actual costs paid by seniors who moved into A Place for Mom partner communities in 2023 and 2024.

Cost comparison table showing 2023 and 2024 median costs by location. This table contains 3 rows of data across 4 columns.
Column location: Location
Column cost2024: 2024 average cost
Column cost2023: 2023 average cost
Column percentChange: Percent change
Location2024 average cost2023 average costPercent change
Elwood, NE$8,728/mo$8,949/mo-2.5%
Nebraska$5,429/mo$5,333/mo+1.8%
National$5,506/mo$5,506/mo+0.0%
Elwood, NE
2024 average cost:$8,728/mo
2023 average cost:$8,949/mo
Percent change:-2.5%
Nebraska
2024 average cost:$5,429/mo
2023 average cost:$5,333/mo
Percent change:+1.8%
National
2024 average cost:$5,506/mo
2023 average cost:$5,506/mo
Percent change:+0.0%
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What families are saying about memory care in Elwood

Recent reviews for memory care in Elwood

Kinship Pointe Kearney Northridge

5.0
I tell people that it's a wonderful place, so friendly, lots of activities, and the food is AMAZING!!! The price is even reasonable ! The "chef's", the food and the staff in dining are AMAZING!!

Kinship Pointe McCook

5.0
My Grandmother is happy and healthy and enjoying life at Kinship Pointe McCook. I understand it had other names before, Brookdate, but the staff have been wonderful and she eats so well! she loves the activities, she isnt into BINGO, as she cant see that well, but they have so much else to ...
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Cambridge Court in Kearney, NE

5.0
Experience has been awesome, staff friendly and helpful housekeeping and tidy, done in timely manner office director and building director very helpful Minors and med daily prompt and available at all time. Kitchen staff great meals are tasty for the most part and hot.

Elwood memory care services and amenities

These charts highlight some of the many care, dining, and entertainment offerings available in Elwood memory care communities. They don’t represent all possible services and amenities available at assisted living communities in Elwood, but support comparisons against nationwide offerings. Our Senior Living Advisors can help you find communities that fit your preferences.

Availability of select care services in Elwood memory care

Memory care communities offer a variety of care services and visiting health care providers to meet seniors’ health needs. The chart below shows the percentage of memory care partners in Elwood that offer these care services compared to the percentage of partners that offer them nationally.
Elwood, NENational
Full medication management
Full medication management
29%
66.7%
24-Hour awake staff
24-Hour awake staff
100%
82.9%
Diabetic care
Diabetic care
100%
99.2%
*Visiting health care professionals
*Visiting health care professionals
25.8%
73.3%
Home care agency on-site
Home care agency on-site
9.7%
29.3%
Non-ambulatory care
Non-ambulatory care
100%
90%
Respite or short term stays
Respite or short term stays
25.8%
63%
Hospice available on-site
Hospice available on-site
29%
74%
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*Including nurse, dentist, OT, PT, speech or podiatrist

Availability of select dementia care services in Elwood memory care

Our community partners provide many services to keep residents with dementia or other memory concerns safe and engaged. Below, take a look at what percentage of Elwood Memory Care partners offer the selected dementia care services compared to the percentage of partners nationally.
Elwood, NENational
Dementia behaviors care
Dementia behaviors care
25.8%
75.6%
Specialized memory care training for staff
Specialized memory care training for staff
6.5%
47%
Secured community and/or wander guard
Secured community and/or wander guard
9.7%
72%
Memory care only community
Memory care only community
3.2%
27.1%
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Availability of select dietary accommodations in Elwood memory care

Memory care communities help seniors maintain a balanced diet by accommodating their health needs, allergies, and other restrictions. Below you’ll find the percentage of Elwood partners making specific dietary accommodations for seniors compared to the percentage of assisted living partners making those accommodations nationally.
Elwood, NENational
Nutritionist / dietician
Nutritionist / dietician
3.2%
28.4%
Low / no sodium
Low / no sodium
3.2%
45.1%
No sugar
No sugar
3.2%
42.2%
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
12.9%
51%
Pureed meals
Pureed meals
3.2%
17%
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Availability of select dining options in Elwood memory care

Our memory care communities know that seniors want top-quality meals and options for how they dine. The chart below indicates the percentage of Elwood communities that offer dining options to their discerning residents compared to our partners nationally.
Elwood, NENational
Professional chef
Professional chef
6.5%
32.5%
Restaurant style dining
Restaurant style dining
19.4%
40.4%
Room service
Room service
12.9%
37.4%
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Availability of select programs and activities in Elwood memory care

Senior living communities offer a variety of programming to keep seniors socially, mentally, and physically vibrant. The chart below shows what percentage of partnered memory care communities in Elwood offer the selected activities, amenities, and programs compared to the percentage of partners nationwide.
Elwood, NENational
Activity director
Activity director
22.6%
46.8%
Pet-focused programs
Pet-focused programs
12.9%
34.3%
Community service programs
Community service programs
6.5%
28.8%
Devotional activities on-site
Devotional activities on-site
25.8%
55.7%
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
22.6%
52.5%
Outings / off-site activities
Outings / off-site activities
29%
62.4%
Piano or organ
Piano or organ
22.6%
40.3%
Arts and crafts center
Arts and crafts center
6.5%
35.2%
Educational speakers / life long learning
Educational speakers / life long learning
12.9%
37%
Clubs / games / karaoke
Clubs / games / karaoke
19.4%
48.1%
Live performances
Live performances
19.4%
48.7%
Dances
Dances
12.9%
31.6%
Fitness center
Fitness center
19.4%
22.1%
Fitness classes
Fitness classes
22.6%
47.2%
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State regulations for memory care in Elwood

Safety is a primary concern when seniors and their families look for memory care. Each state has its own laws and inspection processes to help ensure seniors reside in a safe environment and receive quality care. Learning about Nebraska memory care regulations will help you understand how memory care communities in Elwood protect seniors.
Learn about Nebraska memory care regulationsDownload the Guide to Senior Living Licensure and Inspection Reports

Frequently Asked Questions

There are 38 memory care facilities near Elwood, Nebraska. See the full list.

The 38 memory care facilities near you in Elwood, Nebraska typically provide housing, therapies, and care tailored to those who have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. To find memory care in Elwood, Nebraska, browse our detailed listings showing photos, floor plans, amenities, activities, and reviews from real families.

Browse A Place for Mom’s listings for memory care in Elwood, Nebraska, to take a virtual tour. Our local senior living experts can arrange for a live tour of these communities as well.

The cost of memory care facilities in Elwood, Nebraska ranges from $1000 to $7795. The average Memory Care cost in Elwood, Nebraska is $3,394. Prices often vary based on care provided, amenities, unit size, and more. 

The cost of memory care in Elwood, Nebraska typically starts at $1000. A Place for Mom’s local, expert senior living advisors can help you find affordable memory care facilities near you and offer advice on how to lower costs and pay for care with VA benefits or public payment options.

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