Find Senior Living & Care in Minot, ND

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47,791

Population of Minot

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6,832

Residents aged 65 and older in Minot

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22

Senior Living & Care Options in Minot

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$5,643/Month

Average cost of Senior Living & Care in the area.

Minot, with a population of 47,791, is home to 6,832 residents aged 65 and older. The city offers 22 senior living and care options. The average monthly cost of senior living & care in the area is $5,643.

Since Sept. 23, 2024, the downtown transit center has been the first and last stop on every Minot City Transit route in Minot, ND. You'll find it at 205 1st Street SW, near City Hall. Buses run on weekdays. With every route meeting in one place, a cross-town errand that needs a second bus makes the switch at a stop you already know.

Learning the system doesn't have to happen alone. Minot City Transit offers free travel training to anyone who wants it. A trainer meets you at a spot you pick and talks through the trips you have in mind. Then the two of you ride the bus together. Sessions cover planning a trip, tracking a bus, making transfers, and reading the route booklet.

Some outings don't fit a bus schedule. Souris Basin Transportation brings public transportation to Ward County and six other counties. In Minot, ND, it gives reserved rides from where you start to where you're headed, in accessible vehicles. It runs on Saturdays and Sundays as well as weekdays. On Thursdays, its Ward County route heads out to small towns such as Kenmare, ND, and Bowbells, ND, and the public can ride along.

Seasons are a big part of senior living in Minot, ND. The weather station at Minot International Airport supplies NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals. By those numbers, the average January low is 4.4°F, far below freezing, and the average July high is 83.8°F. So a winter errand calls for warm layers and as little waiting outside as possible, and a reserved ride helps with that. Summer afternoons are warm enough for long stretches outdoors.

For medical care, Trinity Hospitals in Minot, ND, appears on Medicare's hospital list. Medicare classes it as an acute care hospital, and it has emergency services, so it treats sudden illness and injury. Trinity Health says doctors cover its emergency center around the clock, with nurses and other clinical staff in support. US 83 and US 2 both run through Minot, ND, on the way to its campus.

Each guide below sticks to one kind of care, from help that comes to the house through daily nursing. Every one ends with questions for a visit. Read the one that fits today, peek at the next level up, and contact any providers you'd like to hear from.

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Minot, ND at a Glance

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Minot City Transit buses and ADA Paratransit both run on weekdays.
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The Parker Senior Center, 21 1st Ave SE, serves lunch on weekdays.
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Easy loops at Oak Park and Scandinavian Heritage Park, plus a paved trail.
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Minot, ND, averages a 4.4°F January low and an 83.8°F July high (NOAA).

Independent Living & Active Adult Living in Minot, North Dakota

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Independent living in Minot, ND, suits people who run their own days but would gladly hand off the snow shovel, the lawn mower, and the leaky faucet. Most retirement communities take that upkeep off residents' hands. Many independent living communities also offer meals, outings, or a shuttle, though no two packages look quite alike. Just as important is what a week outside the building could hold. Minot State University lets people 65 and older audit on-campus courses with tuition waived, when the classroom has room. Auditing earns no credit, and an application fee and course fees still apply. Oak Park, along 4th Ave. NW, has a band shelter, an amphitheater, and picnic shelters. At the Minot Public Library, fiber artists meet for Twisted Stitches, an adult group that needs no sign-up. An easy craft program meets there on the second Wednesday of each month. The library also keeps an online list of nearly 600 clubs and groups around Minot, ND, with choices for social life, the arts, health, and service. And the North Dakota State Fair, which calls itself the state's largest annual event, is held in Minot, ND. Some people bring a short list of their own weekly habits, such as a class, a church, or a card game, and check how each one would fit. Money is a fair first topic on any tour: what the monthly fee covers, and what gets billed as an extra. Since getting around matters here, you may want to learn whether the shuttle runs to classes and stores in January as well as July. It also helps to ask whether a later move to assisted living or memory care would mean leaving the campus. Sitting in on an activity, or staying for a meal, shows what an ordinary afternoon feels like. Pet rules, a guest room for visiting family, and the way newcomers are welcomed round out the list. A notebook page per visit, kept in the same order each time, turns your tours of independent living in Minot, ND, into an easy comparison.
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Assisted Living in Minot, North Dakota

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Assisted living in Minot, ND, gives each resident an apartment of their own and a staff that steps in with the hard parts of the day. Care teams call those parts activities of daily living. Think of a hand in the shower, help with buttons and zippers, help taking pills, or an arm on the way to lunch. The leap from independent living is that personal care, laid out in a plan made for one person and rewritten as needs shift. Someone who needs skilled nursing every day, with medical care at the center, is usually a better match for a nursing home. North Dakota law gives families two papers to request before anyone signs. Each assisted living community in North Dakota has to share its tenancy criteria in writing before the tenancy agreement is signed. Those are the written standards a tenant must meet to live there. At least once every 24 months, each community also has to run a consumer satisfaction survey and give every tenant the results. So asking for the latest results on a tour is fair. On the tour itself, a good opener is how staff figure out what a newcomer needs, and who sits down to revisit that plan later. Medicine is the next topic: who hands it out, and how errors get caught. Nights matter, too: who's on the floor at 2 a.m., and how fast does someone reach a resident who presses the call button? Price talk belongs on every tour, since extra care tends to raise the bill. A written list of the base rate and add-ons makes later comparisons easier. Make sure to ask how staff respond to a fall, how an ER visit is handled, and when family gets a call. Whether residents keep their own doctor and pharmacy is good to know, too. With winters this cold, notice where residents walk and gather indoors in January. A visit at lunch, then another at a different hour, shows how a full day runs. Reading those two documents next to your tour notes at home makes it clearer which assisted living communities in Minot, ND, below suit the person moving in. The average price of care for Assisted Living in the area is $4,899 - $5,202 per month.
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Memory Care in Minot, North Dakota

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Memory care in Minot, ND, is meant for someone whose memory loss, from Alzheimer's disease or another dementia, now calls for a secure home and staff trained in dementia care. Picture assisted living with secured exits, a steady rhythm to each day, and a calendar of activities shaped for memory loss. The added staff time and security usually make it pricier than assisted living. North Dakota licenses memory care in its own way. A community or unit serving only residents with dementia needs a basic care license. Before it offers that care, it also needs written approval from the state and a new printed license. An assisted living community can't advertise itself as memory care at all. So when a community calls itself memory care, you may want to ask which license it holds and whether the approval is printed on it. Care often begins at home, with a spouse or a grown child doing most of it. North Dakota's Family Caregiver Support Program serves people caring for an adult 60 or older. It also serves anyone caring for a person with Alzheimer's or another dementia, at any age. Its help includes a caregiver coordinator, counseling, support groups, training, and respite, which means a short break from caregiving. The state also funds a free Dementia Care Services Program. It offers care consultation and education to family caregivers across North Dakota. On tours of dementia care communities, it's wise to learn what new hires are taught about memory loss and how often they're retrained. Wandering at night, agitation, and sleepless spells are common with dementia, so ask how this team handles each one. You might also ask how families get updates, and at what point the community would suggest another setting. Watching staff help residents through a meal says more than any brochure could. With each license noted beside the tour answers, the memory care communities in Minot, ND, below are easier to sort out.
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Long Term Care & Skilled Nursing in Minot, North Dakota

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Nursing homes in Minot, ND, are where skilled nursing happens: licensed nurses tend to medical needs at every hour, and many residents also work with therapists. People usually move to one when their health needs outgrow assisted living or memory care. A slow recovery from surgery is one example. A long illness that needs a nurse's care each day is another. A short rule of thumb sorts the three. Assisted living helps with the day. Memory care adds secured doors and a dementia-friendly routine. Skilled nursing puts medical care at the bedside. Before a visit, you can look up any Medicare-certified nursing home on Medicare's Care Compare, which gives separate scores for health inspections, staffing, and quality. Questions for the visit might cover how many therapy sessions fill a week, how nurses are spread across shifts, and how a return home gets planned. Bringing your Care Compare notes to each skilled nursing option near Minot, ND, below makes the talk with staff more specific. The average price of care for Long Term Care in the area is $8,013 - $8,509 per month.
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Home Care in Minot, North Dakota

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Home care in Minot, ND, brings a caregiver to the house on the days and hours you set. That way, the morning coffee, the favorite chair, and the neighbors next door all stay part of the routine. Caregivers help with things like bathing, dressing, cooking, laundry, light cleaning, errands, and company. The work is hands-on personal help, and nursing or medical treatment falls outside it. Long shifts and overnight help take more planning, and they cost more. If the home still works well and the needs fill only part of the day, support at home may be all that's needed for now. A few local services fit in around a caregiver's visits. A local nonprofit, listed by the state for all of Ward County, runs Meals on Wheels. On weekdays, a volunteer brings the meal along with a visit and a wellness check. Frozen meals are available for weekends. The same state listing says the nonprofit lends out walkers and hearing equipment, among other items. For anyone living alone, it's good to know about Hyper-Reach, the system Ward County uses to alert residents to emergencies and other critical community matters. When you phone an agency, a good opening question is how it matches a caregiver to a client, and how often that match changes. You may want to learn the shortest shift on offer and who covers a sick day. It's also fair to ask who comes by the house to check on a caregiver's work. Winters here raise questions of their own. Does the caregiver still come on a bitter January morning, and can they drive to the doctor? Needs can jump after a fall, so you may want to know how many days an agency would need to add hours to the schedule. Mention pets, steep steps, or a front walk that drifts over with snow on that first call, too, since each one shapes the caregiver's visit. Once three agencies have answered the same questions, the choices for home care in Minot, ND, listed below are much easier to sort. The average price of Home Health services in the area is $27 - $29 per hour.
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Compare Assisted Living Costs in North Dakota

Below, a chart weighs the usual monthly price of North Dakota assisted living against the figure for the whole country.

Want the statewide numbers for other care? Our North Dakota page has them, along with how people cover the bill, for independent living and assisted living, as well as nursing homes and home care.

That page gives memory care no section of its own. With memory care questions, a sensible first stop is the state's Aging and Disability Resource Link.

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$5,050
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$5,350

Local Resources for Older Adults in Minot, ND

Older adults in Minot, ND, and the rest of Ward County can turn to these programs. The link beside each one leads to hours, eligibility, and sign-up details.

  • Minot City Transit. Weekday city buses, with every route meeting at the downtown transit center, plus free travel training. City of Minot
  • ADA Paratransit. Shared, curb-to-curb rides, booked ahead, for riders whose disability rules out the bus. City of Minot
  • North Dakota Aging and Disability Resource Link. The state's place to search for in-home help, caregiver support, respite, and rides. ND Care Choice
  • Ward County Human Service Zone. The county's office for reaching services and finding local referrals, on 3rd St. SE. ND Health and Human Services
  • Minot Public Library. Monthly homebound delivery, free technology tutoring, and adult programs. Minot Public Library
  • Minot Park District trails. A trail list you can sort by difficulty, distance, and paved or natural surface. Minot Park District
  • Medicare Care Compare. Inspection, staffing, and quality scores for every nursing home Medicare certifies. Care Compare

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The Parker Senior Center is at 21 1st Ave SE in Minot, ND. The state's Care Choice directory lists the local nonprofit based there as serving all of Ward County. Its services include congregate, home-delivered, and frozen meals, health maintenance, homemaker help, telephone reassurance, and a Senior Companion Program.

At the center, the nonprofit lists yoga, an exercise class, and educational talks. It also holds health clinics with blood pressure checks, foot care, and flu shots across a seven-county area. Lunch is served at the center on weekdays, so a class and a shared meal can fit into one visit.

ADA Paratransit in Minot, ND, is a shared-ride, curb-to-curb service for people with disabilities who can't use the regular bus. Minot City Transit offers it, and Souris Basin Public Transportation provides the rides. Who qualifies depends on what a rider is able to do, not on a diagnosis or the mobility aid used.

Trips run on weekdays and can be booked up to 14 calendar days ahead. The City asks riders to book at least one day before, though a same-day trip may work if there's room. Rides can serve any purpose, from a checkup to lunch with friends. Booking a regular weekly trip a few days out keeps the routine simple.

North Dakota's Aging and Disability Resource Link is the state's door to services for older adults and adults with disabilities. Find it at ndcarechoice.hhs.nd.gov. Its common searches include in-home help, caregivers, respite care, and transportation. North Dakota runs aging services through its Health and Human Services department, so this statewide link is a good place to start.

Every North Dakota county also has a human service zone office, once called the county social service office. These offices help people reach services and supports. They also point people to other local resources and programs. Searching the Resource Link first, then calling the county office with what you found, keeps the steps simple.

A good search starts with three notes: how much help the day requires, what the budget allows, and which side of town keeps family close. Use them to trim the assisted living listings to a handful. For local service questions, the Ward County Human Service Zone office, 225 3rd St. SE in Minot, ND, is open on weekdays.

Then plan two or three visits, each with the same written questions. Bring up care plans, who works the night shift, and which costs the monthly rate doesn't cover. Going back at a different hour fills in the picture. Comparing answers line by line points toward the best fit, whether the move is yours or someone else's.

The Minot Public Library, at 516 2nd Ave SW, runs a Homebound Delivery Service. Each month, it brings books and other items to people in Minot, ND, who are homebound or have a visual or physical disability. People living in assisted living or another extended care setting qualify, too. Volunteers or library staff deliver on a Thursday set by route.

With a library card, you can book a free Technology Tutors session. It's about 45 minutes, one on one with a staff member, on a topic you pick, such as email or eBooks. Cards are open to people with an address in Minot, ND, or the seven-county region around it. Those who can't come in can get a Digital Only Library Card.

Yes. The Minot Park District calls the Oak Park Loop a generally easy route, taking about 24 minutes on average, and good for walking. Leashed dogs are welcome, and the Park District names June through October as the prime season. At Scandinavian Heritage Park, a 0.3-mile loop takes about eight minutes.

The paved trail at the Minot Outdoor Rec. Area circles a grassy field along a small valley overlooking a creek. The Park District calls the path smooth and easy-going. It's mostly flat, with a small incline to the rim, and good for birding. Its online trail list can be sorted by difficulty, distance, and surface, so a short, paved route is easy to find.

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