It’s not easy but the time will come when they have to decide if your parent needs to have help with their 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 a bit more independently but will get help with such things as eating, bathing, laundry, dressing, and medication.
These assisted living facilities also have medical care centers in the same building. However it may only be for the small problems and a regular doctor or hospital may have to be visited for the larger problems. When you put your parent into the assisted living facility a plan will be made that will detail the specific things that your parent may need help with. This will also ensure that your parent will receive the correct care that they need. 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. A lot of people think that assisted living is the same as a nursing home. However 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. Where 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 assisted living but also independent living and nursing home facilities all in one, this way a person can move to the different areas when they become worse and need to receive more care. Or a person from the independent living may be moved to assisted living when they aren’t able to do all things anymore. When these facilities are combined a person can take advantage of services such as meals that may be prepared in a cafeteria. Read the rest of this entry »
