Assisted Living in Nevada: A Family Guide
What assisted living is called in Nevada, what it costs, how Medicaid can help, how to check a community’s license and inspections, and who to call if something goes wrong. Every fact links to the official source.
- Licensed communities on Lilisity
- 436 assisted living
- Medicaid help
- Yes: Waiver for the Frail Elderly (FE)2
- Typical cost
- $6,241 a month (state median, CareScout 2025)
- Long-term care ombudsman
- 1-888-282-11553
What assisted living is called in Nevada
- Residential facility for groupsNevada's license for assisted living. It covers places that give food, housing, help, and limited supervision to people who are aged or infirm or who have a physical or intellectual disability.4
Memory care rules
If a resident's dementia is severe enough that they could be a danger to themselves or others without a secure unit or at least one staff member for every six residents, they must live in a residential facility for groups that meets the state's special licensing rules for Alzheimer's and severe dementia care.4
Questions to ask memory care about nights.
What assisted living costs in Nevada
The median cost of assisted living in Nevada is $6,241 a month, above the national median of $6,200 (CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, collected July to November 2025). Prices vary with the apartment, the level of care and the community, so ask each one for its current rate sheet, including care-level fees.
If more care is needed later: nursing home costs in Nevada, with CareScout medians and the private-pay rates Nevada nursing homes publish.
Plan with our free tools: how long will the money last? and home care or assisted living?
Paying for assisted living in Nevada
Medicare does not pay for assisted living. Families pay from savings and income, long-term care insurance, or benefits such as VA Aid and Attendance (estimate it). Who actually pays for long-term care.
Medicaid. Yes, for some people. Nevada Medicaid's Waiver for the Frail Elderly offers Augmented Personal Care in residential facilities for groups or assisted living settings, for people 65 and older who need nursing home level care. Program: Waiver for the Frail Elderly (FE).2 Medicaid does not pay rent or meals in assisted living in any state, and not every community accepts it, so ask each one.
How to check a community in Nevada
Look up a license. Search active state-licensed health facilities by type, county, or address. Click "View Details" on a result to see state inspection findings. Search Nevada’s records.5
Inspection reports. Find the facility in the Health Facility Locator and click "View Details" to read its state inspection findings.6
Lilisity shows Nevada’s inspection record on each community’s page where the state publishes one: the state’s own records, dated and linked to the official source.
Always visit in person, at a mealtime or in the evening if you can. Bring the tour scorecard and the 8 tour questions.
If something goes wrong
Complaints about care or conditions. HCQC takes complaints against health facilities through its facility complaint form. It rates each complaint by how much harm could result, investigates, and issues a citation for each allegation it confirms. file online.7
Abuse, neglect or exploitation. Call (888) 729-0571 statewide; (702) 486-6930 Las Vegas/Clark County. How to report.8 If someone is in danger, call 911.
The long-term care ombudsman is a free advocate for residents of assisted living and nursing homes: they help resolve problems with a community, including move-out notices. Call 1-888-282-1155 or find your local ombudsman.3
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Every community and county in Nevada
Common questions
Yes, for some people. Nevada Medicaid's Waiver for the Frail Elderly offers Augmented Personal Care in residential facilities for groups or assisted living settings, for people 65 and older who need nursing home level care. Medicaid does not pay rent or meals in assisted living.
The median is $6,241 a month (CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025), compared with $6,200 nationally.
Nevada Health Authority, Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance (HCQC).
HCQC takes complaints against health facilities through its facility complaint form. It rates each complaint by how much harm could result, investigates, and issues a citation for each allegation it confirms.
Search active state-licensed health facilities by type, county, or address. Click "View Details" on a result to see state inspection findings.
Sources
- Licensing agency (hcqc.nv.gov)
- Medicaid (nevadamedicaid.nv.gov)
- Ombudsman (adsd.nv.gov)
- License types, memory care rules (leg.state.nv.us)
- License lookup (hcqc.nv.gov)
- Inspection reports (hcqc.nv.gov)
- Complaints (hcqc.nv.gov)
- Reporting abuse (adsd.nv.gov)
- CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025 (state medians)
Facts checked against these official sources on September 28, 2026. Rules and programs change; confirm with the agency before making a decision. General information, not legal or financial advice.
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