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Memory care in Elwood offers 24-hour care and supervision, trained staff, and specialized activities to accommodate the needs of seniors with Alzheimer’s or dementia. These communities typically offer advanced security features and engaging activities to help ensure residents’ well-being. The cost of memory care in Elwood is about $4,329 per month. To find the best memory care options for your needs and budget, browse the 116 communities, read 923 reviews of families’ experiences, and learn about available services and amenities. 

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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, Memory Care
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.
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Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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.
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, Home Care
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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.
Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
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.
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Provides: Memory Care
Care types provided by this community
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.
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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, 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.
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It's good they really like it. They do a real good job. They really like how friendly the staff are too. The food is fine. The price was a little higher but his wife can walk to visit him so the location...
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.
We offer Independent Living Apts., Assisted Living Apts., & Memory Care Unit on a beautifully landscaped setting in a planned communityand a quiet neighborhood near shopping, medical clinics, & churches. On the grounds there are walking paths & Outdoor patios. The property has...
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Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, 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.
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.
Welcome to Lutheran Living Senior Campus!Nestled in the lush fields of Muscatine, Iowa, we provide you with residences,services, and conveniences for a full life today and the full continuum of health care and rehabilitation to support you into the future. Lutheran Living is the onlyContinuing...
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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: Memory Care, Nursing Homes
Care types provided by this community
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.
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.
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The personnel at Terrace Glen Village not only provide the residents with food and shelter but it is the manner in which it is given that is significant. Personal make an effort to know each other residents...
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.
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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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My Husband had passed away and my family wanted me to be where I could interact with others. I really believe God led me here as every where we looked was no vacancy, one facility said try Irving Point I am...
Provides: Assisted Living, Senior Apartments
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.
Senior Apartments: Senior apartments offer accessible, no-frills living for seniors who are generally active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
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.
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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.
Photo of Liberty Village
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care
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.
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 Promise House
Provides: Memory Care
Care types provided by this community
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.

Cost of memory care in Elwood, IA

The average cost of senior living in Elwood is $4,329 per month. Cheaper nearby regions include Monmouth, IA with an average of $3,713 per month.

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

Elwood, IA
$4,329/mo
$4,162/mo

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

Elwood, IA
$4,329/mo
$4,485/mo
U.S. national average
$4,955/mo

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

Memory Care
$4,329/mo

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

Semi-Private
$5,636/mo
Studio
$5,100/mo
1 Bedroom
$4,368/mo
2 Bedroom
$5,258/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, IA
Column state: Iowa
Column national: U.S.
Community typeElwood, IAIowaU.S.
Memory Care$4,329/mo$4,485/mo$4,955/mo
Assisted Living$4,312/mo$4,480/mo$4,705/mo
Independent Living$2,777/mo$3,268/mo$4,161/mo
Memory Care
Elwood, IA:$4,329/mo
Iowa:$4,485/mo
U.S.:$4,955/mo
Assisted Living
Elwood, IA:$4,312/mo
Iowa:$4,480/mo
U.S.:$4,705/mo
Independent Living
Elwood, IA:$2,777/mo
Iowa:$3,268/mo
U.S.:$4,161/mo
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Memory care costs in Elwood, IA, 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.

Elwood, IAIA stateNational

Memory care cost trends in Elwood, IA

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, IA$6,080/mo$5,689/mo+6.9%
Iowa$6,855/mo$6,382/mo+7.4%
National$6,490/mo$6,152/mo+5.5%
Elwood, IA
2024 average cost:$6,080/mo
2023 average cost:$5,689/mo
Percent change:+6.9%
Iowa
2024 average cost:$6,855/mo
2023 average cost:$6,382/mo
Percent change:+7.4%
National
2024 average cost:$6,490/mo
2023 average cost:$6,152/mo
Percent change:+5.5%
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What families are saying about memory care in Elwood

Recent reviews for memory care in Elwood

Corridor Crossing in Cedar Rapids, IA

5.0
I have been very pleased. My husband had to be in another facility for 9 days before I found Corridor Crossing Place. It was a huge facility, no windows, no outdoor area and cost more, I was very happy that this fit what I had hoped for him. Aspects I most like are the small size with small ...
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Bickford of Davenport

5.0
My mom's memory is improving, before she would say little phrases and now she is asking me questions. They have challenging activities and she participates in a lot of things. I talked with the staff and they tell me she is pleasant and happy. She is where she should be and they treat her with ...
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New Perspective Silvis

4.7
We have been very happy with New Perspectives in Silvis, IL. The facility is very clean and inviting. The staff is very friendly. They have done everything possible to make Mom's transition as easy as possible!

Elwood review score based on 211 family reviews

8.0
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This proprietary review score is based on 211 reviews of 104 Elwood memory care communities. All reviews were submitted in the past two years by verified community residents and family members.
The Elwood review score informs your search by letting you see at a glance how memory care residents and family members rate memory care in your area. Compare review scores in multiple locations to understand how overall satisfaction rates differ from city to city. Based on recent reviews, the maximum possible score is 10.Methodology: How we calculate our city review scores

Elwood review score compared against nearby cities

8.0
Elwood, IA104 facilities
8.0
Lost Nation, IA124 facilities
7.7
Maquoketa, IA95 facilities

Review subcategories for Elwood memory care

When memory care residents and family members submit a review on our site, they rate each community on categories such as cleanliness, activities, meals, and more. The chart below is based on 211 reviews of 104 Elwood memory care communities. This chart helps you compare Elwood resident and family memory care satisfaction rates against national averages. Use it to assess your needs and develop criteria for your own search. If you know that one of these categories is important to you or your loved one, our senior living advisors can help you find communities to match your needs.
Elwood, IA averageNational average
Cleanliness
4.0
4.1
Friendliness
4.1
4.2
Care services
3.7
3.9
Staff
4.0
4.1
Meals & dining
3.8
3.8
Activities
3.7
3.7
Value for cost*
3.7
3.8
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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, IANational
Full medication management
Full medication management
49%
63.2%
Doctor on call
Doctor on call
14.4%
46.7%
24-Hour awake staff
24-Hour awake staff
96.2%
82.2%
Diabetic care
Diabetic care
100%
98.1%
*Visiting health care professionals
*Visiting health care professionals
52.9%
69.3%
Home care agency on-site
Home care agency on-site
19.2%
27.9%
Non-ambulatory care
Non-ambulatory care
98.1%
89.1%
Respite or short term stays
Respite or short term stays
46.2%
58.9%
Hospice available on-site
Hospice available on-site
46.2%
69.2%
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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, IANational
Dementia behaviors care
Dementia behaviors care
51.9%
71.5%
Specialized memory care training for staff
Specialized memory care training for staff
33.7%
44.9%
Secured community and/or wander guard
Secured community and/or wander guard
47.1%
67.5%
Memory care only community
Memory care only community
18.3%
25.7%
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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, IANational
Nutritionist / dietician
Nutritionist / dietician
22.1%
27.4%
Low / no sodium
Low / no sodium
31.7%
43.9%
No sugar
No sugar
26.9%
40.8%
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
28.8%
49.3%
Pureed meals
Pureed meals
5.8%
20.7%
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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, IANational
Professional chef
Professional chef
17.3%
31.5%
Restaurant style dining
Restaurant style dining
37.5%
39.3%
Room service
Room service
29.8%
36.7%
Anytime dining
Anytime dining
15.4%
22.5%
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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, IANational
Activity director
Activity director
42.3%
44.7%
Pet-focused programs
Pet-focused programs
23.1%
32.7%
Community service programs
Community service programs
28.8%
28.3%
Devotional activities on-site
Devotional activities on-site
51%
52.6%
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
46.2%
50.3%
Outings / off-site activities
Outings / off-site activities
51.9%
59%
Piano or organ
Piano or organ
36.5%
38.8%
Arts and crafts center
Arts and crafts center
29.8%
34.9%
Educational speakers / life long learning
Educational speakers / life long learning
30.8%
36.1%
Clubs / games / karaoke
Clubs / games / karaoke
44.2%
46.3%
Live performances
Live performances
44.2%
46.5%
Dances
Dances
24%
31.4%
Fitness center
Fitness center
31.7%
21.8%
Fitness classes
Fitness classes
41.3%
45.5%
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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 Iowa memory care regulations will help you understand how memory care communities in Elwood protect seniors.
Learn about Iowa memory care regulationsDownload the Guide to Senior Living Licensure and Inspection Reports

Frequently Asked Questions

Grand Living at Indian Creek, Cottage Grove Place, a CCRC and The Summit of Coralville are the top-rated memory care facilities near Elwood, Iowa. See full list of communities.
There are 116 memory care facilities near Elwood, Iowa. See the full list.
The 116 memory care facilities near you in Elwood, Iowa typically provide housing, therapies, and care tailored to those who have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. To find memory care in Elwood, Iowa, 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, Iowa, 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, Iowa ranges from $360 to $9929. The average Memory Care cost in Elwood, Iowa is $4,329. Prices often vary based on care provided, amenities, unit size, and more.
The cost of memory care in Elwood, Iowa typically starts at $360. 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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