Consumer prices are down from last year, but costs for long term care continue to rise.
According to the "2009 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services, and Home Care Costs," long term care service providers have raised prices across the board from 2008 to 2009.
Private room nursing home rates rose 3.3 percent to $219 per day or $79,935 per year, while assisted living also rose 3.3 percent on average to $3,131 per month. Home health care aides now cost an average of $21 per hour, a 5 percent increase; adult day services run $67 per day, a 4.7 percent increase.
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