If you are a senior who has come to the point where you are considering making the transition to an assisted Senior Living Community, or moreover you have a loved one who has decided they may like to receive selective assistance with some of the more arduous daily tasks, you will be faced with a plethora of options.
Here is some helpful, useful, and wholly interesting advice to assist you in choosing the right Senior Living Community for you or for a loved one.
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Continuing-care retirement communities, or CCRCS, include several different types of housing options for seniors and vary from type to type. Furthermore, you can choose to move from one area to another as your needs and desires change and develop over time.
Continuing-care retirement communities are sensible options for those who no longer want to deal with the demands of owning their own home yet have no intentions of moving in with friends or relatives at any point in the near future. In addition, such communities allow their residents to transition from one type of care to another and are therefore a good choice for anyone who is still inherently independent and ready to move into a senior community but who may need more assistance in the Senior Living Community future.
The benefits of continuing-care retirement communities include the option to move to a place that offers a higher level of care without losing access to their social community and afford couples who currently require different levels of care to be able to live next to each other and remain as close as ever. Additionally, residents of continuing-car retirement communities can bond and connect with the staff and engage in a plethora of social and relaxation hobbies and activities.
Senior Home Sharing
Senior home sharing programs allow seniors to receive monthly or weekly rent or help around the house from seniors in the same position as you are, in exchange for them essentially renting their own private room. There are a multitude of benefits in choosing senior home-sharing, which include but are by no means limited to:
- Receiving help around the home with general chores and day to day tasks
- Transportation to and from malls, medical appointments are more
- Valuable and treasured companionship and friendship
- Postponing your decision to move to assisted living communities
- An added and valued income support to you and your home
- Increased safety and security in your own home
Suppose you are interested in pursuing a senior home-sharing program. In that case, it is strongly advisable and considerably more safe and secure to go through a professional, established, and experienced senior home-share company that will ensure everything is as simple as possible when arranging your home-share.
Home share programs cleverly and perfectly match seniors and housemates by going through numerous distinct steps. Both the home provider and the person seeking a home begin by applying to the program. They will then undergo in-person interviews to ensure that the program staff will be able to make better and more accurate matches.
Prior to starting the matching process, a member of staff will conduct a home visit whenever is convenient for you. The home seeker’s references will be thoroughly checked by both the staff and the homeowner and will form the basis of the home Share Agreement that you and your guest will sign prior to moving.
Assisted Senior Living Community
Assisted living communities, often referred to as extra-care housing, are the most flexible option for senior living. Essentially, this is because the level of assisted living and personal care you or your loved one will receive is entirely up to and dependent on the individual.
You will reside in a self-contained flat or apartment with your own front door access, and trained staff are available onsite 24/7 should they be needed, whether that is to provide personal care or more general support services. For example, assisted living Aliso Viejo, based in California, offers independent and assisted living services as well as memory care for residents diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Valuable Questions To Ask The Staff
There will certainly be a plethora of questions you would like to ask each potential facility, and you are certainly entirely within your right to do so. However, if a particular facility’s staff seems reluctant to afford you the time and space to sit down with them and enquire about the details of how the site is operated, it may be pertinent to take this as a warning sign.
Valuable and important information you may want to ask the staff of an assisted senior living facility you are interested in may include:
- Ask for complete and utter transparency pertaining to the restraints on the business as a whole as well as any which will directly affect your loved ones themselves
- Ask for a complete and detailed visit and tour throughout the entirety of the facility
- Ensure you ascertain whether or not the particular facility you are interested in is a for-profit or non-profit organization, as this may well influence how the resources are allocated for care and personal services
- Ask for an entirely detailed and all-encompassing comprehensive list of all the costs, including any optional extras for day trips and other such leisure and social activities
- Ask for a copy of the admission agreement prior to making your final decision. Admission agreements are usually lengthy and particularly complex, so you should take the time to read the document thoroughly, cover to cover.
Once you have found a senior living community that you are interested in for yourself or for a loved one, it is strongly advisable to visit the facility in person to see for yourself how the place is operated. Additionally, it would be incredibly useful to try and speak to residents currently living in the community and ask them any other questions you are not comfortable with or forget to ask the staff.
