Greenville Senior AdvisorWhat types of senior care are available around Greenville?
Upstate families choose among assisted living (South Carolina CRCFs), memory care (Alzheimer's special care units inside CRCFs and nursing homes), nursing homes, in-home care from licensed in-home care providers and home health agencies, adult day care, and hospice.
Independent living without personal care needs no CRCF license. Each guide below explains what the license allows, what it costs at South Carolina's 2025 medians, and how many licenses DPH lists in the four counties.
How do I choose the right care type?
Work from needs, not labels: daily help with bathing, dressing and medications points to a CRCF, wandering points to an Alzheimer's special care unit, daily skilled nursing points to a nursing home, and a parent who is safe at night but alone all day may do well with adult day care.
Our comparisons put two options side by side, and the situation guides start from what just happened.
Which care types do Medicare or Medicaid pay for in South Carolina?
Medicare pays for short skilled nursing stays after a qualifying inpatient admission, intermittent home health and hospice; Healthy Connections Medicaid pays for long-term nursing home care, and its Community Choices waiver pays for help at home, adult day health care and Residential Personal Care in participating CRCFs.
Optional State Supplementation helps very-low-income CRCF residents, and PACE-Upstate combines medical care and long-term services in Greenville, Pickens and Anderson counties. VA pension with Aid and Attendance can help veterans and surviving spouses with any of these.
Care types guides
Assisted living in the Greenville area
What assisted living means in South Carolina: the CRCF license, who it serves, staffing, what it costs at the 2025 median and how OSS and Community Choices can help, for Greenville-area families.
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Memory care in the Greenville area
What memory care means in South Carolina: Alzheimer's special care units in CRCFs and nursing homes, the disclosure law, staffing, costs and how to find a unit in the Upstate.
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Nursing homes in the Greenville area
What nursing homes provide in South Carolina, how DPH licenses them and CMS rates them, what they cost at the 2025 median, and how Medicare and Medicaid pay, for Greenville-area families.
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In-home care in the Greenville area
In-home care in South Carolina: DPH-licensed in-home care providers and home health agencies, what each does, costs at the 2025 median, Medicare and Community Choices coverage, for Greenville-area families.
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What adult day care offers in South Carolina, how DPH licenses centers, what it costs at the 2025 median, and how Community Choices and PACE cover it, for Greenville-area families.
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Hospice care in the Greenville area
What hospice provides in South Carolina, how DPH licenses hospice programs and houses, where hospice care happens, and how Medicare pays, for Greenville-area families.
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