In-home care covers two different things that families often conflate. Non-medical home care is help with daily activities, companionship and household tasks. Home health is clinical care ordered by a physician and delivered by licensed staff.
We list 1 verified in-home care option in Milwaukee.
What to watch for with in-home care in Milwaukee
- Non-medical home care is generally private pay. Medicare does not cover it. Wisconsin's 2024 CareScout homemaker-services median was $82,368/yr and home health aide was $86,944/yr, both above the national medians.
- Medicare-covered home health is intermittent and skilled — nursing visits, physical therapy — not a caregiver who stays with your parent.
- IRIS, Wisconsin's self-directed Medicaid long-term-care option, lets a participant hire and direct their own in-home workers, but IRIS is only available for home, apartment, adult family home or RCAC settings, not a CBRF or nursing home.
Verified in-home care in Milwaukee
| Community | Care type | Address | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visiting Angels Milwaukee | Home Health & Home Care | 7635 W Bluemound Rd #1B, Milwaukee, WI 53213 Milwaukee, OH 53213 | Milwaukee |
In-Home Care elsewhere in the region
Families in Milwaukee sometimes place a parent one city over, especially when a specific care level is needed.
| Community | Care type | Address | County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assisting Hands Central Milwaukee | Home Health & Home Care | 10909 W. Greenfield Avenue, Suite 200, West Allis, WI 53214 West Allis, OH 53214 | Milwaukee |
The Milwaukee market specifically
Milwaukee has the deepest senior-housing supply in the metro, spread across neighborhoods from the lakefront East Side to the near-South Side. Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Ascension Columbia St. Mary's Milwaukee and Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center all discharge patients into the city's assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing communities, and Milwaukee County Transit System's fixed-route buses and Transit Plus paratransit make it the most transit-served part of the metro.
Because Milwaukee has the most verified communities in the metro, it is also where most families start their search even when they eventually choose a suburb closer to where they themselves live — the city's supply sets the comparison point for the rest of the metro.
