What Training Do Assisted Living Facility Caregivers Receive? One of the first questions any family needs to ask when looking at an assisted living facility is about the qualifications of the facility’s care staff. These are the people who will interface with your...
What Role Does a Resident’s Family Play in Assisted Living? After you select an assisted living facility for your aging family member, your role as a caregiver will shift. Whether your family member was previously living in your home or independently, you will need to...
How Do I Know if My Senior Is Getting Good Care at an Assisted Living Facility? Making the decision to transition your elderly loved one to an assisted living facility is never easy. Of course, you want to find a nursing home with friendly, professional, and...
When you hear the word ‘malnutrition’ you tend to think about starving kids in sub-Saharan Africa or famine in a third-world nation. You don’t think about malnutrition in connection with your own loved one. It is difficult to envision an older adult from a prosperous...
Remember how you bought and filled that smart little pill organizer with all the separate little boxes in it with the names of the week and the morning, afternoon, evening and night doses for dad? And how you often checked that many of those little boxes were still...
