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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 [...]

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 [...]

A Discussion On Referral Agents – Part4 – Using Evaluation To Help Families

 In our first three installments we have gone to pains to explain how a referral agent should evaluate an assisted living facility.  We have seen how time consuming and costly this process can be and it takes little to imagine how many evaluations must be done to find good facilities.  A dedication, conscientious assisted living [...]