Memory Care Communities in Scottsdale, Arizona

On average, memory care facilities in Scottsdale charge $4,969 per month. This rate is $31 below Arizona’s statewide average ($5,000) and $656 below the national average ($5,625). Across Arizona, citywide memory care costs range anywhere from $6,250 (Flagstaff) to $4,750 per month (Yuma). In Lake Havasu City, memory care providers charge around $5,875 per month. On average, facilities in Tucson charge $5,063 per month.

Select assisted living facilities offer memory care as a standalone, add-on service, usually charging 20-30% more for memory care than standard assisted living care. Since there aren’t any authoritative resources on memory care costs in the United States, we’ve estimated memory care costs in Scottsdale, Arizona and nearby cities by pulling assisted living costs from Genworth’s 2021 Cost of Care Survey and adding 25%.

While many families use their own funds or personal assets to pay for memory care, there are plenty of additional options to cover these costs. Some additional ways to finance memory care costs include:

• Veterans Benefits
• Life Insurance Policy
• Long-Term Care Insurance
• Reverse Mortgage

For more information about different ways to finance memory care, visit our Memory Care in Arizona page.

Adult day care ($2,167) is the most affordable senior care option in Scottsdale. Assisted living costs $3,975 per month. Home care and home health care providers both charge around $5,958. Nursing homes are the costliest senior care providers in Scottsdale, with rates ranging from $6,418 for a semiprivate room and $7,908 for a private room. 

The Bureau of Residential Facilities Licensing, a division of the Arizona Department of Health Services, oversees, regulates and licenses assisted living facilities in Scottsdale that offer memory care services. The BRFL provides numerous resources to memory care facility residents, family members, caregivers and the public at large, including a comprehensive directory of memory care facilities in Arizona.

• Seniors thinking about moving to Scottsdale should factor the city’s high cost of living into their decision, as Scottsdale’s overall cost of living is 33.2% higher than the national median and 31% more expensive than Arizona’s statewide average. Homes are remarkably expensive in Scottsdale, with the median home price ($673,400) being more than double the U.S. median ($291,700).
• Scottsdale is one of the safest areas in the Phoenix metropolitan area. On a scale of 1 to 100, where 1 indicates less crime, Scottsdale’s violent crime rating is 11, less than half the national average of 22.7. The city’s property crime rating is 35.1, slightly below the U.S. average of 35.4. 
• Although summers in Scottsdale get quite warm, the city has some of the most pleasant winters in the country. Averaging 0 inches of snowfall per year, the average January low temperature is 42.4 degrees Fahrenheit, 20.7 degrees higher than the national average of 21.7 degrees. Scottsdale also averages 299 sunny days per year, blowing the national average of 205 days out of the proverbial water. 
• Scottsdale has a substantial senior population, with 24.3% of its 241,000+ residents being seniors aged 65 and up. The city’s proportion of seniors is much greater than the national average of 16.5%. Thanks to the city’s considerable share of seniors, those who plan on moving to Scottsdale should have little trouble finding others to befriend.
• Scottsdale has slightly fewer physicians per capita, 201 per 100,000 residents, than the U.S. average of 210 per 100,000 residents. And although Scottsdale has no renowned hospitals of its own, it’s just 12 miles east of Phoenix, which is home to three of the top five hospitals in Arizona. Ultimately, seniors living in Scottsdale have better access to high-quality health care than most Americans.