ASSISTED LIVING
It’s not easy but the time will come when you have to decide if your parent needs to have help with daily activities. If your parents don’t need full assistance you won’t want to put them into a nursing home. With an assisted living facility your parent or parents will be able to live rather more independently but may need help with eating, bathing, laundry, dressing, and medication.
Assisted living facilities have medical care centres on hand, but it may only be for minor problems and a regular doctor or hospital may have to be visited for the more serious problems. At an Assisted Living Facility a plan will be made that will detail the specific needs of your parent. They will ensure that the elderly person will receive the correct care. Other names may be used for assisted living facilities, like residential care, supported care, board and care, adult foster care, sheltered housing, and adult homes.
Don’t think of assisted living as a nursing home because it is not. In a nursing home your parent will have a lot less freedom. Many people think that assisted living is the same as a nursing home, but nursing homes are used for people who can’t care for themselves or are too sick or frail to be in an assisted living facility. Assisted living is used for a person who is more or less capable of taking care of them selves but may have problems in a few areas of taking care of themselves.
Most of the time a facility may have not only have assisted living but also independent living and nursing home facilities all in one, which enables one to be moved to specific quarters when the need arises for more intense care.
Facilities usually have a choice of three types of contracts – Extensive, Fee for Service, and Modified. The three choices all include shelter, services, emergency care, and amenities. The difference in the contracts will of course be monthly fees. The extensive contract it will include long-term care, and no increase will be included in your monthly fees, while a modified contract will cover only specific services, while Fee for Service will be charged for the various services applied.
This is never an easy choice to make, but an educated choice will make it easier when the time arises and you notice that a parent is having problems with daily activities. An Assisted Living arrangement will ensure a certain amount of freedom whilst receiving the care they need.Meals on Wheals
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