Page 19 of Best Memory Care in Iowa

Why trust this guide? Our editorial team analyzed 230 memory care providers in IA using IA Dept. of Inspections, Appeals & Licensing (DIAL) data, inspection records, complaints, amenities, and facility-level details. How we rank memory care in IA
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Info below is compiled from the IA Dept. of Inspections, Appeals & Licensing (DIAL), senior community websites & trusted data sources such as Walk Score & BBB.

Communities are listed from highest-ranked to lowest-ranked based on our methodology.

Care Types in This Table AL (Assisted Living): Housing with help for daily activities like bathing, dressing, and medication, without 24-hour skilled nursing. NH (Nursing Home): 24/7 skilled nursing care for residents with complex, ongoing medical needs. SNF (Skilled Nursing Facility): Round-the-clock nursing care, often for recovery after surgery, injury, or illness. MC (Memory Care): Secured, specialized care for people living with Alzheimer's or dementia. RC (Respite Care): Short-term temporary care that gives family caregivers a break. IL (Independent Living): Community living with dining, activities, and transportation for active seniors who need little personal care. HC (Home Care): Professional care delivered in the person's own home, from companionship to skilled nursing. HOS (Hospice Care): Comfort-focused care for those with a terminal illness, prioritizing quality of life over treatment. PC (Palliative Care): Comfort-focused care for serious illness at any stage, including alongside curative treatment. CCRC (Continuing Care Retirement Community): A campus with multiple care levels so residents can age in place without moving.
City and state of the facility. Used for mapping and state-average comparisons.
Licensed bed capacity (maximum allowed). Not the same as how many beds are currently filled.
Indicates whether residents are allowed to have pets in the facility.
Third-party neighborhood walkability score (0–100). Convenience/context metric, not a healthcare quality measure.
Description of bed or unit types offered (e.g. assisted living, memory care), as reported in state or facility disclosures.
Number of years the company has been in operation.
Reported or derived occupancy for the facility—typically how fully licensed capacity is utilized. Compare across peers in the same market.
Better Business Bureau grade for the operating company. Reflects complaint handling and business practices, not clinical care quality.
A 0–100 score of a facility's regulatory inspection record, shown as a letter and compared with other facilities of the same kind in the same state. This is a proprietary Assisted Living Magazine grade. It is not a government rating. A dash means we have no inspection data for that facility.
Westview of Indianola Care Center
MC
HOS
NH
RC
SNF
Indianola
71
Facility 71
IA AVG 76
Rank #90 / 211
No
75
Facility 75
IA AVG 45
Rank #33 / 224
--
89.4%
Facility 89.4%
IA AVG 62.6%
Rank #28 / 193
-?
Friendship Haven
MC
AL
CCRC
HOS
IL
NH
RC
SNF
Fort Dodge
155
Facility 155
IA AVG 76
Rank #16 / 211
No
17
Facility 17
IA AVG 45
Rank #188 / 224
Private Rooms-
76.1%
Facility 76.1%
IA AVG 62.6%
Rank #72 / 193
-?
Oelwein Health Care Center
MC
HOS
NH
RC
SNF
Se Oelwein
61
Facility 61
IA AVG 76
Rank #124 / 211
No
77
Facility 77
IA AVG 45
Rank #26 / 224
--
83.3%
Facility 83.3%
IA AVG 62.6%
Rank #50 / 193
-B+
Heritage Care & Rehabilitation Center
MC
HOS
NH
RC
SNF
Mason City
71
Facility 71
IA AVG 76
Rank #90 / 211
No
85
Facility 85
IA AVG 45
Rank #13 / 224
--
88.6%
Facility 88.6%
IA AVG 62.6%
Rank #35 / 193
-B+
Oakwood Care Center
MC
AL
HC
HOS
IL
NH
RC
SNF
Clear Lake
76
Facility 76
IA AVG 76
Rank #76 / 211
No
64
Facility 64
IA AVG 45
Rank #52 / 224
--
83.6%
Facility 83.6%
IA AVG 62.6%
Rank #49 / 193
-?
Accura Healthcare of Spirit Lake
MC
HOS
NH
PC
RC
SNF
Spirit Lake
80
Facility 80
IA AVG 76
Rank #64 / 211
No
76
Facility 76
IA AVG 45
Rank #30 / 224
--
88.8%
Facility 88.8%
IA AVG 62.6%
Rank #33 / 193
-C
Azria Health Longview
MC
AL
IL
NH
SNF
Missouri Valley
100
Facility 100
IA AVG 76
Rank #46 / 211
Yes
53
Facility 53
IA AVG 45
Rank #77 / 224
--
81.4%
Facility 81.4%
IA AVG 62.6%
Rank #56 / 193
-C+
Silvercrest Garner Senior Living
MC
AL
IL
Davenport
-Yes
55
Facility 55
IA AVG 45
Rank #73 / 224
Studio / 1 Bed / 2 Bed
26
Facility 26
IA AVG 16
Rank #34 / 171
-A+-
Bickford of Marshalltown
MC
AL
Marshalltown
-Yes
59
Facility 59
IA AVG 45
Rank #63 / 224
Studio / 1 Bed
29
Facility 29
IA AVG 16
Rank #18 / 171
-B--
Synergy HomeCare of Cedar Rapids
MC
HC
RC
Cedar Rapids (Wellington Heights)
-Yes
82
Facility 82
IA AVG 45
Rank #17 / 224
Private Rooms / Semi-Private Rooms
12
Facility 12
IA AVG 16
Rank #91 / 171
-A+-

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Overview of Friendship Haven

Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge, IA, is a non-profit continuing care retirement community (CCRC) that offers independent living, assisted living, rehabilitation, and skilled nursing. With a nurturing, home-like environment, the community ensures older adults can live comfortably during their stay. Light housekeeping, nutritious meals, and medication management are among the excellent services provided to improve residents’ living experiences. Residents also receive the utmost attention and care to recover and return to their routines with ease through personalized care plans.

Strength exercises, social events, and various recreational activities ensure residents can make friends and have fun. Safe trails, accessible common areas, and a garden also provide residents with more opportunities for recreation and wellness. Located near the Fort Museum and Frontier Village and bus stops along Kenyon Road, the community guarantees accessibility and convenience. This CCRC has a wide range of care options and a clean setting, making it a great choice for senior living in Iowa.

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Overview of Heritage Care & Rehabilitation Center

Heritage Care & Rehabilitation Center is a 71 bed nursing home in Mason City, Iowa, offering hospice care, memory care, respite care, and skilled nursing. Licensed nursing care is available on site around the clock, while memory care provides a secured setting with supervision for someone at risk of wandering. Hospice focuses on comfort for someone with serious illness, and respite care offers a short stay when a usual caregiver needs to travel or recover.

Rehabilitation services and short term rehabilitation give residents a temporary setting for recovery while they receive therapy. Total nurse staffing is 3 hours and 38 minutes per resident each day, representing that amount of daily nurse time allocated to each resident. An outdoor walking trail provides a place to walk outside on the property.

The area has an 85 out of 100 Walk Score, placing it in the very walkable range, where most errands can be completed on foot and a resident who no longer drives can still get out independently. Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted, giving families public payment options or the ability to fund care directly. Claire N. serves as the director, and the center may be a good fit for a resident who needs supervised memory support or short term rehabilitation, or for a family caregiver needing temporary care.

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Overview of Bickford of Marshalltown

Serving Marshalltown, Iowa for 29 years, Bickford of Marshalltown is an assisted living community offering personal care and memory care. It also features studio and one-bedroom apartments in a two-story setting. Moreover, its location on Newcastle Road has a Walk Score of 59, allowing some errands to be completed on foot.

Salon and transportation services support residents’ daily comfort and convenience. It also offers a Montessori-based memory care program with structured, personalized activities for individuals living with cognitive decline. The community also welcomes pets, allowing residents to bring small animal companions.

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Overview of Silvercrest Garner Senior Living

Silvercrest Garner Senior Living provides exceptional memory care and assisted living services tailored to each individual’s needs. The community prides itself on providing the best services, striving to be one of the top-ranked assisted living homes in the city. 

Silvercrest boasts elegant designs and upscale amenities such as its dining room, brightly-lit lounge areas, spacious apartments, courtyard, and arts and crafts studio. 

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Overview of Westview of Indianola Care Center

Westview of Indianola Care Center in Indianola, IA, provides nursing home care, hospice care, memory care, respite care, and skilled nursing. Memory care offers a secured setting with supervision for a resident at risk of wandering, while skilled nursing provides licensed nursing care on site around the clock. Hospice care supports residents at the end of life, and the range of care may suit someone whose needs change from short term support to ongoing nursing or end of life care.

Respite care provides a short stay while a usual caregiver travels or recovers. Rehabilitation services and short term rehabilitation support residents recovering from an illness, injury, or hospital stay, with care focused on helping them regain function. The community has 71 beds.

Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted. Medicare can cover short term skilled care after a hospital stay, Medicaid may help when savings do not cover a long stay, and private pay allows a family to pay directly. These payment options matter because coverage can differ depending on whether the need is temporary, ongoing, or related to end of life care.

Total nurse staffing is 4 hours and 23 minutes per resident per day, representing the daily nursing staff time allocated per resident. A Walk Score of 75 places the area in the very walkable band, meaning most errands can be done on foot. A resident who no longer drives may still reach nearby shops, a pharmacy, or cafes independently.

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Overview of Oelwein Health Care Center

Skilled nursing, memory care, hospice care, respite care, and nursing home care are the five care types on the board at Oelwein Health Care Center in Oelwein, IA. Skilled nursing means licensed nursing that does not thin out overnight. Memory care is secured and supervised, chosen where wandering is a risk. Hospice care attends to comfort and support at the end of life, and respite is the booking made while a usual caregiver travels or recovers.

Daily nursing, memory supervision, end-of-life care, and short-term relief for a caregiver are four different needs, and each has an answer here. Sixty-one beds are what the license allows, which is the capacity figure a family works from. Rehabilitation and orthopedic care both appear as named entries, and both point at getting movement back.

One resident’s day carries 3 hours and 48 minutes of nursing. Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are the routes in, taken according to what a family is covered for or willing to arrange itself.

Walking paths are on the amenity list, which gives residents a marked route to use outdoors, and dining is named as well. Walkability rates 77 in this area, so most errands can be handled on foot. Someone without a car keeps more of that ordinary week to themselves.

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Oakwood Care Center

400 Highway 18 West, Clear Lake, IA 50428-1108
Overview of Oakwood Care Center

Oakwood Care Center offers nursing home, assisted living, home care, hospice care, independent living, memory care, respite care, nursing care, and skilled nursing in Clear Lake, IA. Nursing home care, nursing care, and skilled nursing provide licensed nursing care on site around the clock, while assisted living helps with daily tasks such as dressing, bathing, and medication. Independent living provides private living with community services and no daily care.

Memory care provides a secured setting with supervision for someone at risk of wandering. Home care brings assistance in a person’s residence, hospice care supports end of life needs, and respite care provides a short stay. The range of care levels and respite care can suit a resident whose needs may change over time or a family caregiver who needs short term support.

Oakwood Care Center has 76 beds, with total nurse staffing of 3h 49m per resident per day, representing the daily hands on nursing time allocated to each resident. Rehabilitation services include short term rehabilitation and outpatient therapy, giving residents access to therapy during recovery while allowing outpatient clients to receive treatment without an inpatient stay. A relaxation room and open dining options are also available, and Krystal T. serves as director. Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted. A Walk Score of 64 places the area in the somewhat walkable band, meaning some errands can be done on foot and a resident who no longer drives can reach some nearby errands independently.

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Overview of Accura Healthcare of Spirit Lake

Accura Healthcare of Spirit Lake offers nursing home, hospice care, memory care, palliative care, respite care, and skilled nursing in Spirit Lake, IA. Skilled nursing and nursing home care provide nursing support for residents who need ongoing clinical care, while memory care provides supervision in a secured setting for someone at risk of wandering.

Hospice and palliative care focus on comfort and symptom management. Respite care provides a short stay for a resident whose usual caregiver needs time away. The community has 80 beds and offers rehabilitation services, short term rehabilitation, and outpatient therapy services for people recovering from illness, injury, or a hospital stay.

Private short stay suites support temporary rehabilitation or respite stays, while private and semi private long term care rooms accommodate longer term residence. An on site beauty and barber shop gives residents access to grooming services within the community. Total nurse staffing is 3 hours and 57 minutes per resident per day, representing the daily hands on nursing time allocated to each resident. Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay are accepted. A Walk Score of 76 means the area is very walkable, with most errands possible on foot, so a resident who no longer drives can still get out independently. The range of care services may suit a resident whose needs change over time or whose family caregiver needs short term support.

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Azria Health Longview

1010 Longview Road, Missouri Valley, IA 51555-1227
Overview of Azria Health Longview

Located in Missouri Valley, IA, Azria Health Longview provides nursing home, skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, and memory care. The community’s multiple levels of care can accommodate older adults’ needs, including those seeking support for daily tasks and older adults living with Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. With a doctor on-site and 24-hour staffing, residents receive care around the clock.

Moreover, postacute rehabilitation and specialized care programs support residents who need recovery support after a medical stay. Respite care also provides a short stay when a resident’s usual caregiver needs time to travel or recover.

Of 100 beds, 81.4% are currently occupied. Total nurse staffing is 4 hours and 13 minutes per resident per day, representing the daily nursing time allocated to each resident. Payment options also include Medicare, Medicaid, and private pay, giving families several listed ways to cover care depending on the resident’s circumstances.

Residents can use the beauty salon and spa services on-site. Dining includes home cooked meals served on a schedule that works for the resident. This pet-friendly community also provides housekeeping and laundry services to help with household chores.

A Walk Score of 53 places the area in the somewhat walkable band, meaning some errands can be done on foot and a resident who no longer drives may be able to manage some outings independently.

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Overview of Synergy HomeCare of Cedar Rapids

Ensuring the seniors’ comfort within their residences, Synergy Home Care of Cedar Rapids based at 1st Avenue SE D, Cedar Rapids, IA, is an exceptional in-home care provider offering a wide range of care services including but not limited to care and companionship, specialized care, fall and injury prevention, and health and wellness. With the seniors’ well-being in mind, Synergy Home Care of Cedar Rapids delivers care matched to their special needs and preferences to ensure that they receive the best care and assistance.

Synergy Home Care of Cedar Rapids boasts a team of experienced and dedicated professionals who strive to provide round-the-clock care and assistance to seniors. Moreover, the in-home care provider fosters meaningful connections with the families to meet their loved one’s needs and preferences.

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Weighting overview

  • 35%
    Resident Experience
  • 25%
    Regulatory
  • 15%
    Visual Media
  • 10%
    Website
  • 10%
    Stability
  • 5%
    Environment
01

Resident & Family Experience 35%

The single largest share of every ranking. Aggregated review sentiment and volume from major platforms — the closest signal to real resident experience.

  • Includes
  • Review Sentiment
  • Review Volume
02

Regulatory & Safety Record 25%

State inspection records, citations, and complaint visits. We weight per-inspection rates more heavily than raw counts.

  • Includes
  • State Inspections
  • Citations/Inspection
  • % Inspections w/ Citations
  • Complaint Visits
  • Accreditations
  • BBB Rating
03

Visual Media & Transparency 15%

Communities that publish high-quality visuals give families a real preview. No photos or tours = a negative transparency signal.

  • Includes
  • Video Tours
  • Virtual Walkthroughs
  • Photo Quantity
  • Photo Quality
04

Website & Operator Transparency 10%

Site quality and whether the operator publishes basic accountability information — staff names, contact details, ownership.

  • Includes
  • Website Content
  • Mobile Usability
  • Staff Info Available
  • Owner Info Available
05

Community Stability 10%

Operational signals indicating whether a community is well-run and meeting demand.

  • Includes
  • Occupancy Rate
  • Bed Options
06

Environment & Pricing 5%

Walkability and pricing transparency. Walk Score is weighted higher for Independent Living than for Memory Care, where most residents do not leave unaccompanied.

  • Includes
  • Walk Score
  • Pricing Transparency
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Memory Care in Iowa at a glance

Avg Walk Score: 45/ 100The average Walk Score across facilities in Iowa. A third-party neighborhood walkability score (0–100) measuring convenience and context, not healthcare quality. Individual facilities can vary widely from this average.
National Average: 50/ 100
Avg No. of Beds: 76The average licensed bed capacity across facilities in Iowa. Individual facilities can vary widely from this average.
National Average: 90
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Frequently Asked Questions about Memory Care in Iowa

What's the difference between assisted living and memory care in Iowa?

Assisted living in Iowa supports residents with daily activities (bathing, dressing, medication management) while preserving independence. Memory care is a specialized form of assisted living for residents living with Alzheimer's or dementia, and adds 24/7 secured environments, dementia-trained staff, and structured routines designed to reduce confusion and wandering.

Does Iowa Medicaid cover memory care?

Iowa Medicaid does not directly pay room-and-board for memory care, but most states (including Iowa) offer Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) waivers that can offset the cost of care services delivered inside a licensed community. Eligibility, waitlists, and covered services vary — check directly with the state Medicaid agency.

What is memory care?

Memory care is a specialized form of assisted living for residents living with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia, with secured environments, dementia-trained staff, and routines built to reduce confusion and wandering.

How many memory care communities are listed on this page?

This page features 230 memory care communities in Iowa. Use the filters and comparison tools above to compare ratings, amenities, and pricing.

How do I choose the right memory care community in Iowa?

Start by matching the level of care offered to the resident's current and anticipated needs, then compare licensing status, staff-to-resident ratios, recent inspection results, and pricing. Tour at least two or three communities in Iowa, talk to current residents and families, and confirm what is included in the base rate versus billed as add-on services.

What should I look for when visiting memory care communities in Iowa?

Pay attention to staff interactions with residents, cleanliness and odor, food quality at meal times, the activity calendar, and how questions about pricing and care plans are answered. Ask to see the most recent state inspection report, the move-out / level-of-care-change policy, and a sample monthly bill that lists every fee.