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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Shumway MansionShumway Mansion is a residential care home located in beautiful Kirkland, Washington, in King County. Our gorgeous community is situated near Juanita Beach Park, in a safe and cozy neighborhood. The vibrant city of Kirkland is located on the shores of Lake Washington, just east of...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Above and Beyond AFH is a senior care home located in the city of Renton, WA. You will find this picturesque city on the south shore of Lake Washington. Here your everyday view is emerald coniferous peaks pointing up to the broad expanse of snow-capped Olympic mountains. Here you will experience...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
A beautifully and newly renovated home with plenty of room to offer both private retreats and socialization spaces. Extremely close to the heart of the old downtown of Issaquah, transportation, activities, shopping, and more! Fully staffed 24hrs with awake staff at night for all of your loved...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
A beautifully and newly renovated home with plenty of room to offer both private retreats and socialization spaces. Extremely close to the heart of the old downtown of Issaquah, transportation, activities, shopping, and more! Fully staffed 24hrs with awake staff at night for all of your loved...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Prolife Adult Family Home is located in Kirkland, WA in King County. Our residential care home provides the best kind of care in an area that is filled with attractions. Those who spend any amount of time in Kirkland find that the area offers much to both residents and guests. The area offers...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
At Bright Hope, we are guided by a set of core values that include compassion, respect, integrity, and excellence. We believe that these values are essential to providing the best possible care to our clients, and we strive to uphold them in everything we do.
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
At Bright Hope, we are guided by a set of core values that include compassion, respect, integrity, and excellence. We believe that these values are essential to providing the best possible care to our clients, and we strive to uphold them in everything we do.
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Golden Pine AFH is a retirement community located in the beautiful state of Washington, in the city of Redmond. Redmond being a suburb of Seattle means not only beautiful weather and nature, but proximity to one of the northwest's best cities filled with all kinds of activities to keep almost...
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The care giver was very patient with my friend, the 84 year old man in hospice. My friend was up at all hours of the night, ringing the bell constantly, because he could only really sleep in the wee hours...
Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Covenant Care is a church-based, not-for-profit healthcare provider based in Central Valley, California, but with presences in Denver and Chicago. The organization partners with physicians, nurses, therapists and hospice to provide wide-spectrum health care to their clients. Or, as they say on...
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I don't believe those who wrote one star ratings ever had a loved one in this home. My father is a current resident and i cannot praise or recommend this faculty highly enough. My father had stayed in other...
Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Magnolia Domicile is a senior care home located in the world class city of Seattle, WA. As the largest city in Washington state, the seat of King County, and a major worldwide seaport, Seattle offers an excellent quality of life. Seafood lovers will be thrilled with the abundance and variety of...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Magnolia Bestcare Adult Family HomeMagnolia Bestcare Adult Family Home is a residential care home for seniors that is located in the city of Seattle, Washington which is in King County. Surrounded on three sides by water, Seattle is on of the most unique cities in the country. There are many...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
The Magnolia Adult Family Home is managed by Margie R. Vega, a certified nursing assistant. Her extensive nursing experience includes medical and surgical intensive care, coronary care, geriatrics and rehabilitation. Mary resides at the home to ensure on-going quality care. At The Magnolia Adult...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
The Magnolia Adult Family Home is managed by Margie R. Vega, a certified nursing assistant. Her extensive nursing experience includes medical and surgical intensive care, coronary care, geriatrics and rehabilitation. Mary resides at the home to ensure on-going quality care. At The Magnolia Adult...
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They seem very caring and compassionate. The food is excellent. They have a very nice courtyard, with vegetables and flowers. They eat out of that garden and that’s one of the reasons that I chose this...
Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
Evergreen Home Service is a senior care home located in the active community of Kent, Washington in King County. As a bedroom community in the great Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area, the city of Kent is just 20 miles south of downtown Seattle. With a population of 128,000, the city of Kent has...
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.
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Provides: Memory Care, Residential Care Home
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.
Care Homes: Residential care homes are shared neighborhood homes for seniors who need a live-in caregiver to assist with activities of daily living, like dressing and bathing.

Cost of assisted living in Mercer Island, WA

The average cost of senior living in Mercer Island is $5,216 per month. Cheaper nearby regions include Kent, WA with an average of $5,103 per month.

Average monthly cost of Assisted Living in Mercer Island, WA vs. nearby cities

Mercer Island, WA
$5,216/mo
$5,185/mo

Average monthly cost of Assisted Living in Mercer Island, WA vs. the state and national average

Mercer Island, WA
$5,216/mo
U.S. national average
$4,515/mo

Average monthly cost of Assisted Living in Mercer Island vs. other types of senior living

Assisted Living
$5,216/mo
$5,240/mo

Median monthly costs of Assisted Living in Mercer Island, WA by room type

Semi-Private
$6,184/mo
Private
$6,995/mo
Studio
$5,305/mo
1 Bedroom
$6,223/mo
2 Bedroom
$7,366/mo
Detached Cottage/Bungalow
$5,938/mo

Ways to pay for Assisted Living in Mercer Island, WA

Paying for assisted living may seem daunting, but knowing all your options can be empowering. Read about the many private and public payment options that families use to pay for assisted living in Mercer Island.

What families are saying about assisted living in Mercer Island

Recent reviews for assisted living in Mercer Island

Regency Newcastle

4.8
Really enjoyed my stay. Wonderful staff. Breakfast is served a little to early for me.I really like the varirty of activities. I was at Newcastle 14 days i met a lot of nice people with each of them having an interesting story to tell.

Viktoria AFH in Bellevue, WA

4.5
My mother moved into Viktoria AFH about one month ago, and while she was completely resistant to doing so, she is content and happy. The staff treat her like she is gold, and make her feel loved and special. She loves them and especially the meals that they prepare from scratch every day. ...
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Harbour Pointe Senior Living in Mukilteo, WA

4.4
This is a nice community. The apartments are a nice size and roomy. They have a good list of activities for the residents to choose from. They have friendly front desk staff. My loved one seems to enjoy the food.

Mercer Island review score based on 268 family reviews

8.1
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This proprietary review score is based on 268 reviews of 266 Mercer Island assisted living communities. All reviews were submitted in the past two years by verified community residents and family members.
The Mercer Island review score informs your search by letting you see at a glance how assisted living residents and family members rate assisted living 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 Island review score compared against nearby cities

8.1
Mercer Island, WA266 facilities
8.1
8.3
Newcastle, WA311 facilities

Review subcategories for Mercer Island assisted living

When assisted living 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 268 reviews of 266 Mercer Island assisted living communities. This chart helps you compare Mercer Island resident and family assisted living 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.
Mercer Island, WA averageNational average
Cleanliness
4.6
4.5
Friendliness
4.7
4.6
Care services
4.1
4.2
Staff
4.6
4.5
Meals & dining
4.1
4.1
Activities
4.2
4.1
Value for cost*
4.2
4.1
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Mercer Island assisted living services and amenities

These charts highlight some of the many care, dining, and entertainment offerings available in Mercer Island assisted living communities. They don’t represent all possible services and amenities available at assisted living communities in Mercer Island, 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 Island assisted living

Assisted living communities offer a variety of care services and visiting health care providers to meet seniors’ health needs. The chart below shows the percentage of assisted living partners in Mercer Island that offer these care services compared to the percentage of partners that offer them nationally.
Mercer Island, WANational
Full medication management
Full medication management
67%
43.3%
Doctor on call
Doctor on call
45.4%
28.4%
24-Hour awake staff
24-Hour awake staff
68.3%
85.2%
Diabetic care
Diabetic care
83.5%
85.6%
*Visiting health care professionals
*Visiting health care professionals
68.9%
48.4%
Home care agency on-site
Home care agency on-site
18.4%
25.5%
Non-ambulatory care
Non-ambulatory care
77.1%
85.4%
Respite or short term stays
Respite or short term stays
55.9%
39.9%
Hospice available on-site
Hospice available on-site
65.7%
44.2%
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*Including nurse, dentist, OT, PT, speech or podiatrist

Availability of select dementia care services in Mercer Island assisted living

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 Island Assisted Living partners offer the selected dementia care services compared to the percentage of partners nationally.
Mercer Island, WANational
Dementia behaviors care
Dementia behaviors care
69.8%
43.7%
Specialized memory care training for staff
Specialized memory care training for staff
29.2%
27.2%
Secured community and/or wander guard
Secured community and/or wander guard
58.7%
34.1%
Memory care only community
Memory care only community
21.3%
11.5%
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Availability of select dietary accommodations in Mercer Island assisted living

Assisted living communities help seniors maintain a balanced diet by accommodating their health needs, allergies, and other restrictions. Below you’ll find the percentage of Mercer Island partners making specific dietary accommodations for seniors compared to the percentage of assisted living partners making those accommodations nationally.
Mercer Island, WANational
Nutritionist / dietician
Nutritionist / dietician
17.8%
22.4%
Low / no sodium
Low / no sodium
43.2%
33.8%
No sugar
No sugar
41%
31.2%
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
65.7%
29.7%
Pureed meals
Pureed meals
23.8%
10.8%
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Availability of select dining options in Mercer Island assisted living

Our assisted living communities know that seniors want top-quality meals and options for how they dine. The chart below indicates the percentage of Mercer Island communities that offer dining options to their discerning residents compared to our partners nationally.
Mercer Island, WANational
Professional chef
Professional chef
21.6%
26%
Restaurant style dining
Restaurant style dining
26.3%
34.3%
Room service
Room service
35.2%
29.8%
Anytime dining
Anytime dining
30.5%
14.7%
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Availability of select programs and activities in Mercer Island assisted living

Senior living communities offer a variety of programming to keep seniors socially, mentally, and physically vibrant. The chart below shows what percentage of partnered assisted living communities in Mercer Island offer the selected activities, amenities, and programs compared to the percentage of partners nationwide.
Mercer Island, WANational
Activity director
Activity director
28.9%
38.9%
Pet-focused programs
Pet-focused programs
19.7%
26.1%
Community service programs
Community service programs
22.5%
25.3%
Devotional activities on-site
Devotional activities on-site
47%
42.2%
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
Parties / BBQs / happy hour
42.2%
41.4%
Outings / off-site activities
Outings / off-site activities
53.7%
44.5%
Piano or organ
Piano or organ
25.1%
34.6%
Arts and crafts center
Arts and crafts center
26%
28.4%
Educational speakers / life long learning
Educational speakers / life long learning
23.8%
31.5%
Clubs / games / karaoke
Clubs / games / karaoke
34%
39.2%
Live performances
Live performances
32.4%
39.5%
Dances
Dances
24.1%
24.7%
Fitness center
Fitness center
15.2%
20.3%
Fitness classes
Fitness classes
34.3%
38.5%
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State regulations for assisted living in Mercer Island

Safety is a primary concern when seniors and their families look for assisted living. Each state has its own laws and inspection processes to ensure seniors reside in a safe environment. Learning about Washington assisted living regulations will help you understand how assisted living communities in Mercer Island protect seniors.

Learn about Washington Assisted Living regulations

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AMC Private Care, Absolute Love and Care Adult Family Home and Elderly Home Care are the top-rated assisted living facilities near Mercer Island, Washington. See full list of communities.

There are 332 assisted living facilities near Mercer Island, Washington. See the full list.

The best assisted living facilities near you in Mercer Island, Washington are Garden of Eden Adult Family Home, Cogir of Mill Creek and Cogir of Kent. These assisted living communities received the highest rankings based on verified family reviews.

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