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Respite Care in Tennessee

We're still building out our respite care directory for Tennessee. Pick a city below for local pricing and provider listings, or request a personalized shortlist.

What respite can cost in Tennessee

Respite is short-term relief for a family caregiver, not a separate facility class with its own national price survey. The ranges below are derived from published Tennessee figures for in-home care, adult day, and assisted living. They are planning estimates, not quotes.

  • In-home respite: about $31/hour from the local in-home monthly median (44 hrs/week survey standard). Roughly $248 for an 8-hour day, or $1,240 for a 40-hour week.
  • Adult day respite: about $87/day (monthly adult-day median ÷ 20 program days), or about $435 for a five-day week.
  • Facility short-stay (AL slice): about $195/day (local assisted-living monthly ÷ 30), or about $1,365 for a week. Communities often bill a higher short-stay rate; ask before booking.

Method: divide published monthly medians into hourly/daily slices as above. Full notes on our methodology page.

Tennessee licensing & regulation

State-by-state licensing agency details and how to check a facility's complaint history for Tennessee are coming soon.

Medicaid & local resources in Tennessee

Long-Term Care Ombudsman

Tennessee Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program helps residents of nursing homes, assisted living, and similar settings in Tennessee resolve concerns about care and rights.

Official Ombudsman locator / program page

Source: State LTC Ombudsman.GOV

Medicaid HCBS / LTSS programs

Named programs below are from official state Medicaid agency pages. We list eligibility dollar amounts and wait lists only when a primary source is cited.

  • CHOICES. TennCare CHOICES provides nursing facility and HCBS LTSS for seniors 65+ and adults 21+ with physical disabilities. Prior elderly/disabled 1915(c) is terminated on Medicaid.gov; CHOICES operates under TennCare 1115 authorities.
Source: State Medicaid program.GOV

Free national starting points. Official sites only; we do not scrape these directories.

Cities in Tennessee

Showing the 500 largest of 504 tracked cities.

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Providers disclosing respite care in Tennessee

No providers in Tennessee currently carry an official respite care service flag.

Respite Care is a service disclosed on other licensed settings, not a separate facility directory. We only list providers when a state source field says so.

How we rank these

Frequently asked questions

Which cities in Tennessee have respite care listings?

We track 504 Tennessee cities for respite care. See the city list on this page for options near you.

How to cite this page

Cite this: According to ElderCareCosts' 2026 index, licensed respite care providers in Tennessee are listed with government-sourced data. State median cost not yet published.

APA: ElderCareCosts Research. (n.d.). Respite Care in Tennessee. ElderCareCosts. Retrieved September 18, 2026, from https://www.eldercarecosts.com/respite-care/tennessee/

Chicago: ElderCareCosts Research. "Respite Care in Tennessee." ElderCareCosts. Accessed September 18, 2026. https://www.eldercarecosts.com/respite-care/tennessee/.

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