Weekly Links – 6/14/18 Including Father’s Day Gift Ideas
Number-Crunching: A Look at Differing CCRC Pricing Sheets When is it Time for Assisted Living? Father’s Day Gifts for Older Dads
New LifeStyles Senior Living & Care Blog
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Home Care Assisted Living
As we get older, our bodies as well as our minds change. For many of us, our lives become very static for the last few decades of life. We become set in our routines, surrounded by objects and mementos that remind us of our lives and personal history. It is…
Senior Abuse: 4 Ways To Spot Mistreatment of a Loved One
It’s hard to believe that anyone would cause harm to the elderly anywhere, specifically in a nursing home, but the sad truth is that it happens. From 2015-2016, investigators found 134 cases of abuse of nursing home residents. Most nursing home residences hold strict codes to ensure these abuses don’t happen, but this…
Assisted Living – Do you know all of your options?
A good friend recently asked me to help them find assisted living for her husband’s grandmother. First, I had to call her and get the whole story. Had something happened? Why did she need assisted living? What was the time frame? After learning that she had fallen, was coming out…
Weekly Senior Living and Care Links – 2/15/18
African-Americans are at a higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease. What Every Dementia Caregiver Must Know Ft. Worth Area Community In the News for a Kind Act Planning for the Future After a Spouse’s Death Text reminders raise medication adherence in Medicare patients by 14%
The Bottom Line: Assisted Living Costs
The national average for an assisted living facility in 2017 for a private, one-bedroom unit was $45,000 a year, but costs can be more than 50 percent higher in some states and a third lower in others. The costliest states for assisted living are Delaware: $72,000, Alaska $72,000, New…