Find Senior Living & Care in Howard, WI

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21,087

Population of Howard

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3,675

Residents aged 65 and older in Howard

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108

Senior Living & Care Options in Howard

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$5,793/Month

Average cost of Senior Living & Care in the area.

Howard, with a population of 21,087, is home to 3,675 residents aged 65 and older. The city offers 108 senior living and care options. The average monthly cost of senior living & care in the area is $5,793.

Howard, WI, is a suburban village on the northwest side of Green Bay, WI. It became a village in 1959. For anyone weighing senior living in Howard, WI, that setting puts much of the region close at hand. The Village says it has direct access to Interstate 43, US Highway 41, and State Highway 29.

The Village gives its own travel times, too. Lambeau Field is five minutes away. Austin Straubel International Airport is a 10-minute trip, and Door County, WI, is 45 minutes out. So relatives who fly in land a short ride from the Village.

The Village's gathering place is Howard Commons Activity Complex, at 550 Commons Place. It has an open-air pavilion and an indoor activity center. There's a rink for roller and ice skating, plus an outdoor amphitheater ringed by green space. A splash pad gives visiting kids something to do as well.

Duck Creek Quarry Park offers a quieter outing. The 30.83-acre Village park sits on an old limestone quarry. The Village has added a sand beach, a fishing dock, and a trail system. It's open sunrise to sunset for walks, paddle boarding, and boating without a motor. Anglers can fish catch-and-release from the Lakeview side.

Winter here takes some planning. NOAA keeps 1991 to 2020 normals for a Green Bay, WI, weather station, which isn't in Howard, WI. They put January's average low at 11.1°F. July's average high is 81.0°F. In short, January nights drop far below freezing, and July afternoons are warm. On a winter visit, you might ask how each community clears snow from its sidewalks and lots.

For medical care, Medicare's hospital list shows no hospital in Howard, WI. It does list four acute care hospitals with emergency services in Green Bay, WI. They're Bellin Memorial Hospital, St. Vincent Hospital, St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center, and Aurora BayCare Medical Center. Acute care means short-term treatment for a sudden illness, an injury, or surgery. HSHS St. Vincent Hospital lists its emergency department as open 24 hours, so that care is there at any hour.

Below, the page moves from help at home to nursing homes, one care type at a time, with questions to ask in Howard, WI. Families can search here for free, and every provider is listed. Once a handful look promising, you can contact them directly, and those conversations stay between you and each provider.

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Howard, WI at a Glance

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Active Seniors bingo, Sheepshead, and craft groups meet at Village Hall.
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Duck Creek Quarry Park: beach, fishing dock, and trails, open sunrise to sunset.
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Howard, WI, has its own Brown County Library branch, Weyers-Hilliard.
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NOAA normals for Green Bay, WI: January low 11.1°F, July high 81.0°F.

Home Care in Howard, Wisconsin

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Home care in Howard, WI, puts a paid caregiver in the house on a set schedule, so a person can stay in familiar rooms. Typical tasks include help with a shower, getting dressed, fixing lunch, and a steady arm on the stairs. Agencies often add laundry, tidying, grocery runs, and conversation over coffee. It isn't nursing, and it won't cover every hour of the day unless a family books and pays for that. The fit is strongest if the house is still easy to live in and the needs come in blocks of a few hours. It gets harder when someone needs a hand overnight or can't safely spend long stretches alone, and long hours grow costly. Paid help can sit beside services that cost nothing to ask about. The ADRC of Brown County, which the state lists as the county's aging and disability resource center, keeps a list of caregiver services. On it are personal care, homemaker and chore help, and respite, meaning a planned break for the family caregiver. Adult day care, a daytime program outside the home, counts as respite there, too. Before signing on with an agency below, it's good to learn how its caregivers are vetted and trained. You might ask whether one familiar face covers most shifts or whether the roster rotates. Find out the shortest shift it books and its plan when a caregiver is out sick. A supervisor usually oversees the caregivers, and you could ask who that is and how often they visit the house. Snowy mornings can slow a visit, so it helps to learn how the agency handles bad roads. You may also want to know whether caregivers run errands with clients in their own cars. Needs can jump after an illness, so see how soon extra hours could start. It's also good to hear how the agency introduces a new caregiver. A one-page list of the must-do tasks, with their days and times, keeps each call short and on point. With that page in hand, the home care listings for Howard, WI, below turn into a quick round of phone calls. The average price of Home Health services in the area is $28 - $30 per hour.
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Independent Living & Active Adult Living in Howard, Wisconsin

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Independent living in Howard, WI, suits people who still manage their own bathing and dressing. They'd just like to hand off the mowing, the shoveling, and the leaky faucet. Upkeep becomes someone else's job at retirement communities and independent living communities, and many add meals, outings, or a shuttle besides. Exactly what's bundled in changes from one community to the next. The Village adds plenty outside the door. Its Public Works Department looks after the parks, pavilions, trail systems, and sport fields. Village parks include Barney Williams Park, Clear Brook Park, Deer Run Park, and Deerfield Docks Park. A newly built 8-foot concrete trail along Glendale Avenue gives walkers and cyclists a path of their own. For longer outings, Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources says the 83-mile Mountain-Bay State Trail ends at Howard Memorial Park near the city of Green Bay, WI. In winter, Pinewood Park on Harwood Avenue has two outdoor ice sheets. Both are free and lit for night skating, and a warming shelter is usually open when the ice is. Gardeners can ask about the Village's community garden at Fire Station #2 on Shawano Avenue, which has free water on site. Summer brings a farmers market with live music to the Commons, along with a free concert series on the amphitheater stage. Anyone who misses the classroom can look into the UW-Green Bay Lifelong Learning Institute. It's a member-led program with courses each fall and spring, both in person and online. On a walk-through, it's wise to get the monthly fee's inclusions, and each add-on charge, on paper. You might ask whether a driver takes residents to the clinic, the grocery store, and Village events. Pets and a guest suite for visiting relatives are good topics, too. Health can change down the road. So it's smart to learn whether a higher level of care sits on the same grounds, and how a move between levels works. Leafing through a recent activity calendar tells you how busy an ordinary week gets. Two trips, one at dinner and one on a Saturday, give a clear view of daily life at the independent living choices around Howard, WI, below.
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Assisted Living in Howard, Wisconsin

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Assisted living in Howard, WI, pairs a private apartment or room with staff who help with daily routines. Those routines are known as activities of daily living. They cover things like a morning shower, getting dressed, taking pills on time, and walking to the dining room. Here, unlike independent living, aides lend a hand with personal care every day. A written plan for each resident guides them, and it changes when needs do. Someone who needs nurses around the clock would look instead at a nursing home, the more medical choice. Wisconsin uses three license types for what people call assisted living. The Division of Quality Assurance, part of the state's Department of Health Services, licenses all three. They're adult family homes, residential care apartment complexes (RCACs), and community-based residential settings, which the state calls CBRFs. Since each type follows its own rules, it's good to ask a community which of the three licenses it holds. During a visit, you might learn how staff size up a new resident's needs and how often the care plan gets a fresh look. Medication deserves its own question, including who sets out the pills and who confirms they were taken. Staffing after dark is another fair topic. Who's on duty in the small hours, and how fast does help show up after a call light goes on? Pricing needs a careful look. Make sure to get a plain list of what the base rate includes and which extra charges kick in as needs rise. Hospital stays happen, so it helps to hear how staff welcome someone back afterward and when they phone family. You may also wonder whether residents can stay with their own doctor and pharmacy. A midday stop lets you see the dining room in use, chat with a resident or two, and watch how aides handle the lunch rush. A return trip in the evening rounds out the picture, since the mood of a building can shift after supper. Afterward, jot the license type beside your notes on every assisted living community in Howard, WI, below, then compare them side by side. The average price of care for Assisted Living in the area is $5,335 - $5,665 per month.
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Memory Care in Howard, Wisconsin

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Memory care in Howard, WI, gives people with dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, a protected home and caregivers who understand memory loss. It builds on the everyday help of assisted living with secured exits, a steady daily schedule, and activities designed around changing memory. CBRFs are one of Wisconsin's assisted living license types. The state's rule for them names dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease, among the client groups a CBRF may serve. Staff have 90 days from their start date to finish training for that group. Each year, the administrator and resident care staff need at least 15 hours of continuing education, with training for that group as part of it. That's a floor, so it's good to ask how much dementia training each caregiver has had and how often it gets refreshed. The ADRC of Brown County also has Dementia Care Specialists, trained to understand each family's situation. Talking with one before you tour can sharpen what you look for. While touring, you might ask how caregivers calm someone who's anxious, heads for the door, or wakes in the night. It helps to hear how the team keeps relatives in the loop. It's just as useful to learn what signs would mean a resident needs more care than the community gives. Request a sample day's schedule, and see how much of it happens outdoors. Mealtimes matter as well. You may want to know how staff coax a resident who skips meals or forgets to drink water, and whether family can sit in. The first few weeks after a move are often the hardest, so ask what the team does to help a newcomer feel at home. It's also good to learn whether a quilt, family pictures, or a well-loved armchair can come along. Familiar things can make a new room feel less strange. Pay attention to how aides speak to a resident who's upset, since their tone says as much as any training record. Take that list to each memory care community listed for Howard, WI, below, and vague answers will stand out quickly.
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Long Term Care & Skilled Nursing in Howard, Wisconsin

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Nursing homes in Howard, WI, and the wider area offer skilled nursing. That means nurses give medical care day and night. Therapists often work with residents to rebuild strength after an operation or a long illness. People usually move to this level when their medical needs are more than an assisted living or memory care team can handle. Think of a long recovery after a hospital stay, or an illness that needs close watching. Assisted living and memory care focus on daily routines and supervision. A nursing home adds ongoing medical treatment to that mix. Before any visit, Medicare's Care Compare lets you pull up a nursing home and see how it's rated. Wisconsin's Board on Aging and Long Term Care names a regional ombudsman for each county, so it's good to check which one covers your address. Anyone may call an ombudsman, whose client is always the long-term care resident age 60 or older. Visiting a skilled nursing home near Howard, WI? It helps to ask how staff plan each resident's next step, such as going home or moving to a lighter level of care. The average price of care for Long Term Care in the area is $9,913 - $10,526 per month.
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Compare Assisted Living Costs in Wisconsin

This chart lines up what assisted living typically costs per month in Wisconsin with the U.S. figure.

For statewide costs and the ways people cover them, read the matching sections of our Wisconsin page: independent living, nursing homes, home care, or assisted living.

No memory care cost section exists on our Wisconsin page so far. For memory care questions, the ADRC of Brown County is a good first call.

Wisconsin -
$5,500
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$5,350

Local Resources for Older Adults in Howard, WI

Here's where older adults in Howard, WI, and across Brown County can turn. Each link opens the organization's page with its current hours and eligibility rules.

  • Howard Active Seniors. Bingo, Sheepshead, and craft groups for older adults, run by the Village's Leisure Services at Village Hall, 2456 Glendale Avenue. Active Seniors
  • ADRC of Brown County. The resource center the state lists for Brown County, serving older adults, people living with a disability, and those who care for them. ADRC of Brown County
  • ADRC transportation. Volunteer ride options, plus help mapping out a transportation plan. Transportation
  • Howard Commons Activity Complex. The Village's gathering spot at 550 Commons Place, with a pavilion, an amphitheater, and a skating rink. Howard Commons
  • Brown County Library. Hours and locations for every branch, Weyers-Hilliard included, plus the Bookmobile. Locations and hours
  • Wisconsin ombudsman coverage map. Shows which regional ombudsman covers each county, Brown and Outagamie included. Ombudsman coverage map
  • Medicare Care Compare. Run by Medicare, it shows ratings for each nursing home. Care Compare

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. The Village's Leisure Services Department runs Active Seniors programs at the Village Hall Community Center. Senior Bingo is played from 1 to 3 p.m. on the first, second, and third Thursdays of each month. You don't have to live in Howard, WI, to play. Senior Sheepshead, a classic card game, is free to join.

Sheepshead tables meet Wednesday afternoons and on the second and fourth Monday mornings. According to the Village's newsletter, beginners are welcome, and other players will teach the game. The newsletter also lists monthly knitting and crocheting, modern quilting, and hand needlework groups in the Village Hall Activity Room. Programs are aimed at adults typically 55 and older. Reading the newsletter is an easy way to see what's coming.

The ADRC of Brown County points riders to Curative Connections, whose volunteer drivers give rides to Brown County residents age 60 and up, as well as people with disabilities. An application comes first. The ADRC also offers help sketching out a transportation plan that works for someone's week.

One gap is good to know about. Green Bay Metro's service area covers Green Bay, WI, and four other communities, and Howard, WI, isn't among them. So Metro buses and Metro paratransit aren't a ride to count on from a Howard, WI, address. On tours, it's smart to learn whether a community runs its own van to appointments and shops.

The Aging and Disability Resource Center of Brown County is the center the state lists for Brown County. Its office is on South Adams Street in Green Bay, WI. It partners with adults 60 and older, people with disabilities, and family caregivers, and it calls itself a source of unbiased information.

Callers don't need a polished question, the center says. They can simply tell their story. Its caregiver help includes support groups as well. The Census places Howard, WI, in both Brown and Outagamie counties, and most programs on this page serve Brown County. If your address is on the Outagamie County side, it's good to check which county's center serves you.

Yes. The ADRC of Brown County runs Home Delivered Meals, with volunteers bringing meals around the noon hour on weekdays. Howard, WI, is on its delivery list. The program is meant for people who are 60 or older, mostly homebound, and unable to prepare meals safely alone.

Anyone who'd rather eat in company can try the ADRC's Community Cafe, which serves lunch at two dining sites in Green Bay, WI. One site is open to the public. Each meal must be reserved in advance, so it helps to call ahead. A shared lunch is a simple reason to get out of the house and catch up with others.

The ADRC of Brown County holds a Memory Cafe each month in Green Bay, WI. These social gatherings welcome people with memory loss or thinking changes together with their care partners. A caregiver doesn't need to find a sitter to attend, since the person they care for comes along.

The Brown County Dementia Friendly Community Coalition, which includes the ADRC, wrote a Dementia Resource Guide. It covers support systems, respite options, education, home safety, and more. Reading it ahead of a memory care tour can help you choose which questions to lead with.

The Brown County Library's Weyers-Hilliard Branch sits at 2680 Riverview Drive in Howard, WI. You can call the branch to book a free tech tutoring session: 30 minutes one-on-one with a librarian, covering a device, a website, email, or library tools. Appointments are required.

The Bookmobile also rolls through Brown County. The public is welcome at every regular stop, and the library takes requests for a visit. On tours, you could see whether a community brings residents to the branch or has hosted a Bookmobile stop.

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Sources, checked Oct. 9, 2026: Village history, Village location, Duck Creek Quarry Park, Pinewood Park, Village community garden, Glendale Avenue trail, Village parks, Howard Commons, Village farmers market, Rock the Commons, Active Seniors, Active Seniors newsletter, U.S. Census Bureau, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Department of Health Services, ADRC list, ADRC of Brown County, City of Green Bay, Metro Transit, ombudsman coverage map, Brown County Library, CMS hospital data, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital, UW-Green Bay Lifelong Learning Institute, NOAA climate normals, Wisconsin assisted living guide, and Wisconsin Administrative Code, DHS 83.