Naomi Foster

Naomi Foster researches and writes the cost content on this site: what assisted living, in-home care, nursing homes and memory care run in each state, and how families typically cover the bill.

She is a health cost writer, not a nurse, a licensed clinician, or a social worker, and she wants that stated plainly rather than implied. Her work is tracking down reliable cost benchmarks, mostly government data and industry cost-of-care surveys, and turning them into numbers a family can actually plan around. Nothing she writes should be read as medical guidance or a care-placement recommendation.

Before joining this site, Naomi covered consumer health costs, the kind of reporting that tries to answer "what will this actually cost me" instead of "what should this cost in theory."