Posts Tagged ‘assisted living placement’
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 [...]
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 Large Assisted Living Communities – Part 1, Overview
We have spent a good amount of time discussing assisted living Board & Care homes. While we are not done with that discussion, I thought it would be nice if we looked into the larger assisted living communities.  These assisted living communities are designed, for the most part, for seniors who are alert and still [...]
Insurance and Assisted Living
 It comes as a shock to most people when, in the midst of a crisis, when they are finally thrown into a discussion about elder care, they find that assisted living is not, for the most part, covered by medical insurance. Further, even in states where they might receive help from Medicaid, they have to be [...]
Assisted Living and the Activities of Daily Living
In many of our past articles, we have mentioned ADL’s or Activities of Daily Living. Assisted Living was created to help people who have trouble with these ADL’s, but what are they, exactly? Well, that is the topic of this informative, if long article.
Depending on who you talk to, there are six, seven or even [...]
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
If you [...]
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 -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 [...]