What senior care costs in Sarasota and Manatee counties

How much does assisted living cost in Sarasota, Florida?

No Sarasota-specific median is published; CareScout's 2025 survey puts Florida's statewide assisted living median at $66,000 a year, about $5,500 a month, up 3 percent from 2024 and below the national median of $74,400.

CareScout 2025 Cost of Care Survey, Florida results (Business Wire, March 2, 2026). Monthly, hourly and daily figures are our arithmetic on CareScout's annual medians (annual / 12; home care annual / 2,288 hours; nursing home annual / 365; adult day annual / 260 days).

CareScout gathers prices by metro area but released only state and national figures for 2025, so any website quoting a precise “Sarasota average” is not citing this survey. Expect larger campuses on the bay and in Lakewood Ranch to quote above the state median, and small residential homes inland to quote below it; ask for written rates.

What does a nursing home cost per day in Florida?

Florida's 2025 nursing home medians are $124,100 a year for a semi-private room and $146,000 for a private room, about $340 and $400 a day, both above the national medians of $114,975 and $129,575.

Those are the private-pay rates. Medicare pays for short skilled stays after a qualifying hospital admission, and Florida Medicaid pays for long-term stays once a resident qualifies; see Medicaid long-term care.

How much does in-home care cost per hour in Florida?

CareScout's 2025 Florida median for a non-medical home care worker is $73,216 a year at 44 hours a week, which works out to about $32 an hour and roughly $6,100 a month at that schedule.

The table shows why round-the-clock care at home usually costs far more than assisted living: 24-hour coverage is 168 paid hours a week. Most families mix a few hours of paid help with family care and adult day care.

Is there a published cost of memory care in Florida?

No: CareScout does not survey memory care as a category, so no Florida or Sarasota memory care median exists; memory care is typically quoted as an assisted living rate plus a dementia care charge, so ask each facility for its total monthly figure in writing.

Florida's new memory care services license (s. 429.076) will require licensed facilities to spell out memory care services in the resident contract, which should make quotes easier to compare once AHCA's rules take effect.

What does adult day care cost in Florida?

CareScout's 2025 Florida median for adult day health care is $19,500 a year for five days a week, about $75 a day, well below the national median of $24,700.

AHCA licenses 8 adult day care centers in the two counties: Empath Life in Bradenton, Meals on Wheels Plus Adult Day Center in Lakewood Ranch, Town Square Bradenton at University Parkway in Sarasota, Activage Sarasota in Sarasota, Senior Friendship Centers, Inc in Venice, Senior Friendship Centers, Inc in Sarasota, Tina's Adult Day Care in Sarasota, Town Square Sarasota in Sarasota. Several assisted living facilities also run day programs.