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The average daily cost of a private room in a nursing home in the United States is $75,190 a year, or $206 a day, according to the 2006 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home and Home Care Costs. This is a 3.9 percent increase over last year, when the average daily rate for a private room in a nursing home was $74,095 a year, or $203 a day, according to MetLife.Once again, the highest rates for a private room in 2006 were found in Alaska, where the cost is $578 a day on average. The lowest rates were again found in Shreveport, Louisiana, at $111 a day, a $4 drop from last year. The survey also reports on the cost of a semi-private room, which now averages $183 a day, or $66,795 a year, also a 3.9 increase over last year. The study also found that the cost of a home health care aide averaged $19 per hour nationally, the same as last year, while homemaker/companion care averages $17 per hour, also unchanged. The lowest costs for both home health care aides and homemaker companions are $12 per hour in Shreveport, while Rochester, Minnesota, had the highest costs for a home health care aide at $29 an hour. For the full 2006 report, including a list of average daily nursing home and home health care costs in selected cities, click here. (The report is available in PDF format. If you do not have the free PDF reader installed on your computer, download it here.)
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