Common Services an Assisted Living Facility Provides Transitioning to an assisted living facility can be challenging for seniors and their families. It’s a new stage of life that comes with many concerns about the unknown. However, learning more can help put your mind...
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...
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...
You probably have mixed feelings about moving mom/dad into assisted living. While you know they will be happier, safer, and less lonely, it is also difficult to accept that this once vital person, brimming with energy and verve, now seems to need help. You probably...
