Posts Tagged ‘assisted living homes’
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 [...]
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 Large Assisted Living Communities – Part 2
In our first installment on large assisted living communities, we covered quite a bit of ground. In general, we should now know about costs, services, strengths and weaknesses and layouts. In this episode, we will continue this education, by looking more deeply into these subjects. We will explore a day in the life of a [...]
A Closer Look at Board & Care Homes – Part 3
In our last two segments on Board & Care Homes, we have covered quite a bit of the information that makes this type of assisted living special. We understand that they offer the highest ratio of caregivers to residents and that their pricing is quite fare, usually less than other options with lower ratios. in [...]
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 Closer look at Board & Care Homes – Part 1
We hear a lot about Board & Care home in our industry and we have talked about them to some extent here, but what really are Board & Care Homes? After all, there is actually no term Board & Care in the legal vernacular of the state. So do they even exist and if so, what [...]
Many People, One Mind – Building Consensus
Assisted Living Placements is coming off another busy week, and as I reflected I started thinking about how much of our job is education and consensus building. So much of the assisted living placement process is sifting through multiple points of view, and helping educate people so that agreements can be reached. I think this [...]
A Discussion On Referral Agents – Part5 – Client Needs Assesment
In our last article we discussed how thorough evaluation of facilities prepares a referral agent for the challenges of finding care for diverse clientele. Even though facilities receive the same type of license, we have shown how different they can still be.  We have illustrated how an in-depth evaluation will educate an agent of the [...]