Memory Care Communities in Wichita, KS

On average, memory care facilities in Wichita charge $6,781 per month. This rate is $1,056 higher than the Kansas statewide average ($5,725) and $1,156 higher than the national average ($5,625). Manhattan’s average is close to Wichita’s, averaging $6,748 per month. Memory care facilities in Lawrence ($5,673) and Topeka ($5,619) charge nearly the same. Across the Oklahoma border, memory care costs just $4,819 per month in Tulsa.

Assisted living facilities may offer memory care as an add-on service. Typically, memory care services cost 20-30% more than base-level assisted living care. Since there aren’t any authoritative resources on citywide, statewide or national memory care costs in the United States, we took the assisted living costs listed on Genworth’s 2021 Cost of Care Survey and increased them by 25% to arrive at the estimates below.

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 Kansas page.

In Wichita, adult day care is easily the most budget-friendly senior care option at just $1,706 per month. Home care and home health care are next up, both averaging $4,767 per month even though home health care includes additional clinical services. Assisted living costs slightly more, averaging $5,425. Nursing homes charge anywhere from $6,524 for semiprivate and $6,965 for private rooms.

The Kansas Secretary of Aging and Disability Services licenses long-term care providers, including memory care facilities, in the Sunflower State, classifying them as either assisted living facilities or residential health care facilities — the difference being that residential health care facilities aren’t required to have kitchens. 

• Wichita is very isolated, surrounded by nothing but rural areas for well over 150 miles. The closest city is Tulsa, Oklahoma, which is 175 miles southeast of Wichita. Seniors thinking about retiring here should make sure Wichita has all the resources they need before moving.
• Wichita has a low cost of living. The city’s overall cost of living is 17.9% below the national average and 1% below the Kansas statewide average. This latter statistic is remarkable considering the affordability of small, rural towns, which make up the majority of the Blue Hen State.
• Wichita sees more crime than the majority of Kansas. On a scale of 1 to 100, where low scores indicate less crime, Wichita’s violent crime rating is 48.4, over twice as high as the Kansas statewide average (23.6) and the U.S. average (22.7). The city’s property crime rating (73.6) is also more than double the national average of 35.4.
• Per the BestPlaces Water Quality Index, which rates cities’ water quality on a low-to-high scale of 1 to 100, Wichita’s water supply has a rating of 35, substantially lower than the U.S. average of 55. 
• Wichita’s median home price of $160,700 is a little more than half the national median of $291,700 and 9.4% lower than the statewide median of $177,400.