CareScout's 2025 Cost of Care Survey puts New York State's Adult Day Health Care median at $144 per day, or about $3,120 per month based on five days a week, $37,440 per year. That's up from $113 per day in the 2024 survey, an increase of roughly 27 percent year over year, the largest percentage jump among CareScout's surveyed New York categories.
The detail behind the number
Adult day health care programs, offering structured daytime supervision, meals, and often therapy or health monitoring, typically Monday through Friday, are one of the lower-cost ways to support an aging parent living at home, especially compared to the $225-per-day median for a full assisted living placement. At $144 per day for five days a week, a family might spend roughly $3,120 per month, versus $7,110 per month for full-time assisted living, making adult day care a meaningful bridge option for a working caregiver who needs daytime coverage rather than round-the-clock residential care. That said, the year-over-year jump from $113 to $144 per day in CareScout's own data is worth flagging to families as a sign that adult day care costs are rising quickly, not staying flat, so budgeting forward on a stale figure could understate real costs. As with all CareScout figures cited here, this is a New York State median, not a Long Island-specific number.
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