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A Look Back – Assisted Living and Personal Info

Hello again from Assisted Living Placements.  I sometimes wonder if anyone is reading these articles.  I certainly hope so, but regardless, they are good for me we are creating at archive of incredibly important information.  With that in mind, I wanted to review a topic that we have covered before.  Assisted living referrals services commonly [...]

Happy New Year from Assisted Living Placements

Well, once again we start a new year, and so I thought I would say hello and comment on some of the changes we are seeing in the Assisted Living industry in California and specifically, Orange County.  As we have discussed in depth, our industry is heavily regulated but, unfortunately, poorly supervised.  This is partially [...]

Helping Adult Children Understand They Are Not The One Going To Assisted Living

Happy Holidays from Assisted Living Placements!  This is my favorite time of year, but unfortunately, it is also a very busy time of year for us here at Assisted Living Placements.  It seems that accidents and mental down-turns happen more frequently during the holidays.  We also hear from adult children who might be seeing their [...]

Excerpt From Our New Book On Assisted Living

Salutations from Assisted Living Placements.  We have been very busy here, helping seniors and their families navigate the confusing maze of assisted living options.  But, somehow, I have found the time to work on a new Assisted Living Book.  This book, the second in the Assisted Living series, is address to the assisted living owners [...]

A Closer Look at Board & Care Homes – Part 2

In our first installment on Board & Care homes we painted a very broad, general picture of the assisted living type known of in the vernacular of the industry as Board & Care.  In this article we will refine our discussion.  Here we will focus on specifics of this type of care option and will [...]

So How Many Assisted Living Homes Have You Evaluated?

Welcome back to the Assisted Living Placements Blog, or more probably, welcome for the first time to the Assisted Living Placements Blog.  Our goal here is to provide a forum for education on assisted living.  We work diligently to keep our readers informed on changes and important events in this fascinating and important subject.Â
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A Discussion On Referral Agents -Part 6- The Ideal vs The Real

In the first five parts of our six part series, we have delved deeply into the world of the assisted living referral agent.  We have discussed everything from evaluating facilities to assessing senior needs.  We have illustrated how matching facility services with senior needs is one key of a good referral, and we have talked [...]

Assisted Living Referral Agencies and Your Privacy

I would like to take this opportunity to talk about one of the Assisted Living Placements policies that causes much contention between us and the assisted living communities and homes with which we work.  It is a very interesting and illuminating subject, because it delves to the very base workings of an assisted living referral [...]