How Do You Know When It’s Time to Move Your Aging Parents?
This is the one question I hear most frequently from baby boomers caring for their aging parents, and I wish there was a “one size fits all” answer for it. All of our aging parents (or Golden Oldies as I prefer to call them) decline in various ways and at different rates, but here are [...]
A Story About Finding Assisted Living — Part 4, Sally’s Decision
This is the final part in our story about how we found the best assisted living facility for 82-year-old Sally to live in. Please read the background info here, and the reports about our visits to Assisted Living Facilities “A” and “B.” Below is the outcome of our search . . . . When [...]
A Story About Finding Assisted Living — Part 3
This is the third article in a four-part series about finding an assisted living facility for 82-year-old Sally to live in. Please read the background info here, and about our visit to Assisted Living Facility “A” here. Her story continues below . . . Sally and I were running nearly two hours late for our [...]
How Prepared Are You for the Future?
Six weeks ago I asked the TLeC community to participate in a survey by Ryan Malone, founder of Inside Assisted Living. The survey was initiated to better understand in which way and to what degree families are prepared for their loved ones’ transition to assisted living. The results have been tallied and the free Assisted [...]
Let’s Pay it Forward and Help Another Blogger!
On Saturday I received an interesting email from Ryan at Inside Assisted Living about an online survey he is conducting on the levels of knowledge, attitudes and preparedness family caregivers have about assisted living. In his words, “this is the only survey of its kind — one that takes a ‘by families, for families’ approach.” [...]
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