Posts Tagged ‘Board & Care’
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 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 [...]
Offense At A Facility’s Decision
Recently, one of our agents was working diligently with a family looking for a new Board & Care home, here in Orange County. Bill, from our office, took the initial call and set about putting together a compressive needs assessment.  It looked pretty straight forward, after all, our client’s mother has been living in a [...]
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 [...]