Posts Tagged ‘Senior Citizens’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]