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10 Best Memory Care Facilities in Mercer County, NJ

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Memory care in Mercer County 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 Mercer County is about $9,592 per month.

To find the best memory care options for your needs and budget, browse the 512 communities, read 14889 reviews of families’ experiences, and learn about available services and amenities. You may also consider nearby communities such as Doylestown, Burlington and Princeton.

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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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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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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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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, 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.
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.
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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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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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.
The Lakewood Courtyard's kitchen, under strict rabbinical supervision, provides three glatt kosher meals daily, as well as Shabbos and Yom Tov Seudos.
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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, 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, 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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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.
Whitemarsh House, a personal care residence, belongs to a quiet neighborhood in Flourtown, Pennsylvania. We specialize in caring for individuals with brain injury and other mental needs. High ceilings and large windows accompany the three-story residence and an open, wooded park is visible from...
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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.
Dover Woods Health Care Center is a residential health care facility located in Toms River, with an admissions policy for anyone over 18 years of age with physical and/or mental disabilities. Dover Woods Health Care Center is in a modern building with a full choice of room arrangements, catering...
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My mother chose the life plan at Elm Terrace moving into Independent Living. Thank God she did! Shortly after she moved in she needed skilled care for rehab after a fall. The therapist worked so hard to get...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, Independent Living, Senior Apartments
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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.
Senior Apartments: Senior apartments offer accessible, no-frills living for seniors who are generally active, healthy, and able to live on their own.
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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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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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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, Memory Care, Independent Living, Nursing Homes
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.
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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Provides: Assisted Living, Memory Care, 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.
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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Provides: Assisted Living, Memory 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.
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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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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Upon our arrival at Bayside Manor, we found it to be clean and inviting. Both staff and residents were very friendly and helpful. We met the facilities administrator and we were pleased to find out that...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory 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.
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, 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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They were top notch care wise. He was never in dirty clothes, and he was always well kept and well taken care of. He was the highest functioning person there in the dementia level. This was a pretty sterile...
Provides: Assisted Living, Independent 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.
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.
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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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.
At Cathedral Village, you have the flexibility to create your own experience. All of our senior living services are available as you need them in Philadelphia, PA. Ideally located near the Plymouth/Whitemarsh area of Montgomery County in the Roxborough community of Northwest Philadelphia, we are...
Provides: Assisted Living, Memory 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.
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 Mercer County, NJ

The average cost of senior living in Mercer County is $9,592 per month. Cheaper nearby regions include Fieldsboro, NJ with an average of $7,959 per month.

Memory care costs in Mercer County, NJ, vs. nearby counties

Mercer County, NJ
$9,592/mo

Memory care costs in Mercer County, NJ, vs. state and national averages

Mercer County, NJ
$9,592/mo
U.S. national average
$7,121/mo

Memory care costs in Mercer County, NJ, vs. other senior living options

Memory Care
$9,592/mo

Memory care costs in Mercer County, NJ, by floor plan type

Semi-Private
$5,449/mo
Studio
$9,486/mo
1 Bedroom
$8,266/mo

Senior living costs in Mercer County 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: Mercer County, NJ
Column state: New Jersey
Column national: U.S.
Community typeMercer County, NJNew JerseyU.S.
Memory Care$9,592/mo$9,554/mo$7,121/mo
Assisted Living$8,134/mo$7,822/mo$5,909/mo
Independent Living$4,031/mo$4,332/mo$3,532/mo
Memory Care
Mercer County, NJ:$9,592/mo
New Jersey:$9,554/mo
U.S.:$7,121/mo
Assisted Living
Mercer County, NJ:$8,134/mo
New Jersey:$7,822/mo
U.S.:$5,909/mo
Independent Living
Mercer County, NJ:$4,031/mo
New Jersey:$4,332/mo
U.S.:$3,532/mo
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Memory care costs in Mercer County, NJ, over time

The line graph below shows how monthly memory care costs have shifted over the past five years in Mercer County 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 Mercer County, NJ

The table below shows how monthly memory care costs in Mercer County 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 average 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
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Location2024 average cost2023 average costPercent change
Mercer County, NJ$8,843/mo$8,412/mo+5.1%
New Jersey$8,829/mo$8,040/mo+9.8%
National$6,599/mo$6,222/mo+6.1%
Mercer County, NJ
2024 average cost:$8,843/mo
2023 average cost:$8,412/mo
Percent change:+5.1%
New Jersey
2024 average cost:$8,829/mo
2023 average cost:$8,040/mo
Percent change:+9.8%
National
2024 average cost:$6,599/mo
2023 average cost:$6,222/mo
Percent change:+6.1%
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What families are saying about memory care in Mercer County

Recent reviews for memory care in Mercer County

Brookdale Hillsborough

5.0
Overall I have no complaints of this community they have provided my mother with excellent care and have really made her comfortable in her new living environment. They have a great menu for the residents to choose from with a wide variety of meals. They also have a great activity program ...
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Alcoeur Gardens of Toms River

4.0
Alcoeur Gardens of [Removed] was a nice place for dad to stay for a brief respite stay. The staff was very attentive and caring to his needs. The atmosphere was warm and inviting. The activities director was very young and hopefully, as she gains more experience they will have more ...
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The Residence at Voorhees in Voorhees Township, NJ

5.0
We loved the place. The staff and care was great. This made us feel that she was family to them. We are glad we choose this community. The room was easy access to the dining room, as well as in and out of the shower, and was offered help when needed.

Mercer County review score based on 2,977 family reviews

8.3
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This proprietary review score is based on 2977 reviews of 512 Mercer County memory care communities. All reviews were submitted in the past two years by verified community residents and family members.
The Mercer County 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

Mercer County review score compared against nearby cities

8.3
Mercer County, NJ512 facilities
8.4
Burlington County, NJ371 facilities
8.2
Somerset County, NJ569 facilities

Review subcategories for Mercer County 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 2,977 reviews of 512 Mercer County memory care communities. This chart helps you compare Mercer County 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.
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Cleanliness
3.3
3.7
Friendliness
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Care services
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Staff
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3.6
Meals & dining
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Activities
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Value for cost*
3.0
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Mercer County memory care services and amenities

These charts highlight some of the many care, dining, and entertainment offerings available in Mercer County memory care communities. They don’t represent all possible services and amenities available at assisted living communities in Mercer County, 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 Mercer County 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 Mercer County that offer these care services compared to the percentage of partners that offer them nationally.
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Full medication management
Full medication management
68.9%
63.9%
Doctor on call
Doctor on call
63.4%
47.3%
24-Hour awake staff
24-Hour awake staff
95.5%
82.2%
Diabetic care
Diabetic care
98.4%
98.2%
*Visiting health care professionals
*Visiting health care professionals
73.8%
70%
Home care agency on-site
Home care agency on-site
39.9%
28.4%
Non-ambulatory care
Non-ambulatory care
95.5%
89.4%
Respite or short term stays
Respite or short term stays
65.6%
59.1%
Hospice available on-site
Hospice available on-site
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Availability of select dementia care services in Mercer County 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 Mercer County Memory Care partners offer the selected dementia care services compared to the percentage of partners nationally.
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Dementia behaviors care
Dementia behaviors care
68.5%
72.2%
Specialized memory care training for staff
Specialized memory care training for staff
53.4%
45.6%
Secured community and/or wander guard
Secured community and/or wander guard
61.4%
68%
Memory care only community
Memory care only community
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Availability of select dietary accommodations in Mercer County 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 Mercer County partners making specific dietary accommodations for seniors compared to the percentage of assisted living partners making those accommodations nationally.
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Nutritionist / dietician
Nutritionist / dietician
49.1%
28%
Low / no sodium
Low / no sodium
62.4%
44.8%
No sugar
No sugar
59.9%
41.5%
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
56.4%
50.4%
Pureed meals
Pureed meals
40.1%
22.9%
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Availability of select dining options in Mercer County 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 Mercer County communities that offer dining options to their discerning residents compared to our partners nationally.
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Professional chef
Professional chef
50.7%
32.1%
Restaurant style dining
Restaurant style dining
60.1%
40.2%
Room service
Room service
50.9%
37.8%
Anytime dining
Anytime dining
30.5%
23%
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Availability of select programs and activities in Mercer County 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 Mercer County offer the selected activities, amenities, and programs compared to the percentage of partners nationwide.
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Activity director
Activity director
63.6%
45.5%
Pet-focused programs
Pet-focused programs
50.7%
33.2%
Community service programs
Community service programs
41.7%
29.1%
Devotional activities on-site
Devotional activities on-site
63.4%
53.2%
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
65.4%
51.1%
Outings / off-site activities
Outings / off-site activities
68.1%
59.7%
Piano or organ
Piano or organ
55%
39.7%
Arts and crafts center
Arts and crafts center
54.6%
35.9%
Educational speakers / life long learning
Educational speakers / life long learning
56%
36.9%
Clubs / games / karaoke
Clubs / games / karaoke
62.6%
47.2%
Live performances
Live performances
63.6%
47.3%
Dances
Dances
46%
32.2%
Fitness center
Fitness center
28.2%
22.4%
Fitness classes
Fitness classes
63.8%
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State regulations for memory care in Mercer County

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 New Jersey memory care regulations will help you understand how memory care communities in Mercer County protect seniors.
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Frequently Asked Questions

CareOne at Hamilton, Artis Senior Living of Princeton Junction and Azalea at Hamilton are the top-rated memory care facilities near Mercer County, New Jersey. See full list of communities.
There are 512 memory care facilities near Mercer County, New Jersey. See the full list.
The best memory care facilities near you in Mercer County, New Jersey are Arden Courts Whippany, A Memory Care Community, Azalea of Cinnaminson and Brandywine The Gables by Monarch. These memory care communities received the highest rankings based on verified family reviews.
The 512 memory care facilities near you in Mercer County, New Jersey typically provide housing, therapies, and care tailored to those who have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. To find memory care in Mercer County, New Jersey, 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 Mercer County, New Jersey, 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 Mercer County, New Jersey ranges from $$5,950 to $$13,713. The average Memory Care cost in Mercer County, New Jersey is $9,592. Prices often vary based on care provided, amenities, unit size, and more.
The cost of memory care in Mercer County, New Jersey typically starts at $$5,950. 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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