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Spring Hill, FL:
Why You Shouldn’t Sign A Nursing Home Or Assisted Living Facility Arbitration Agreement
Many long-term care facilities, including nursing homes and assisted living facilities, will routinely include arbitration agreements in their admission documents. It is never a good idea to sign such an arbitration agreement.
What to Do with Assets before Moving into Assisted Living
Seniors who want to move into assisted living don't necessarily have to sell other properties they own.
How to Recognize Signs It's Time for Assisted Living
Caring for a elderly parents takes a toll on families. When is the right time to move to assisted living? We ask a psychologist for signs.
How to Tell If Your Aging Parent Should Move to an Assisted Living Community
If you notice any or all of these signs, you may want to start considering assisted living care as beneficial for your loved one.
US Nursing Home Residents Should Know Their Rights
Human Rights Watch has released a guide about US nursing facility residents’ rights concerning medication in easy-to-read formats. This guide aims to fill an important gap, supporting older people in knowing and claiming their rights.
10 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Nursing Home
The decision to put a loved one in a nursing home is never easy. But if you're armed with the right information, you'll be able to find a facility that will treat your family member respect and allows them to live a healthy, vibrant life.
What If Residents Decided How Their Nursing Home Would Run?
It seemed like a radical idea: Let each nursing home residents decide when to eat. But that and other person-centered care helps make them happier.
How one nursing home is helping its residents regain a sense of purpose.
3 Tips for Celebrating Holidays with Seniors in Assisted Living
Holidays with seniors in assisted living can be festive & meaningful even if it means new traditions. Get answers to 3 top questions about how to celebrate.
How to Choose Between Home Health Care, Assisted Living, and a Nursing Home
Caring for someone can be time-consuming and exhaustingfor you and your bank account.
Assisted Living Memory Unit or Nursing Home: How to Choose
Dear Carol: Your column has been incredibly helpful for my family as we care for my sweet mother-in-law who is in late stages of frontal temporal dementia. As we've struggled to find the right care setting while she progresses through this disease, we've been confused by care options. From assisted living to skilled nursing, there appear to be many choices, but it's not always clear what each provides. Recently, we learned from a nurse in Mom’s current nursing home that some memory care…
How To Secure an Assisted Living Facility |
In assisted living facilities, resident safety is most important. Managing who is leaving the facility, is as important as who is entering Without a doubt, deploying an access control system in an assisted living facility is important on a number of different levels – including emotional, physical, and financial. On an emotional plane, it is …
Assisted Living: What Does A Luxury Assisted Living Community Provide?
Assisted Living: What Does A Luxury Assisted Living Community Provide? If you’re looking for an assisted living community, you may be...
How nursing homes and assisted living communities differ
Watching your parents age is rarely easy, and it may be difficult to accept that your parent may no longer be safe living on his or her own. There are many considerations involved in deciding whether
How Assisted Living is Like College
From my personal experience working in assisted living for over 20 years, I see a lot of similarities between moving to assisted living and going to college
How To Downsize For Assisted Living
Let these tips help you plan out the downsizing process!
What to Know About Assisted Living
Assisted living provides a residential setting with personal care services, 24-hour supervision, assistance, activities and health care. Some communities are free-standing, while others are located near or integrated with well-staffed nursing homes or hospitals. Other times, you'll find assisted living in continuing care retirement communities or at independent housing complexes<br>Nationally, you'll find different levels of care in assisted living communities — some provide lighter care…
How To Move A Parent Into Assisted Living
Steps to take when you need to move a parent into an assisted living facility. How to free up cash assets to afford assisted living.
15 Decorating Tips for Assisted Living
What's the new niche in interior decorating? Decorating for seniors! Learn 15 decorating tips to create functional, beautiful assisted living
How do I evaluate an assisted living facility?
My brother and I are searching for an assisted living community for our parents to move to this summer. How do I evaluate an assisted living facility?
