These Are the Top 10 Reasons Why People Cannot Age in Place at Home
The truth remains: people want to age in place in their own homes. Survey results consistently show elders saying this … Read more
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Think Your Parent Needs Assisted Living? Here’s What to Do This Holiday Season
Many of you will be visiting loved ones, perhaps for the first time in a while, this holiday season. Perhaps … Read more
Four Things I Look for When Evaluating ALFs
Evaluating ALFs (Assisted Living Facilities) can be difficult. How can you really determine which community will be best? Is it … Read more
How to Choose an Assisted Living Facility: Why Placement Referral Businesses Don’t Work
Over the years we have worked with thousands of families on choosing an assisted living facility. We’ve also written many … Read more
A Family’s Story of Coronavirus Isolation with Mom in an ALF: “Please Just Come Up Here and Let Me Hold You!”
by Linda Chamberlain Wow! My mother-in-law (MIL) was so happy to see her son today (and me too). Her immediate … Read more
30 Days Since We’ve Seen My Mother-in-Law in Her Assisted Living Facility: The Checklist We Can’t Live Without
by Linda Chamberlain This Sunday marks 30 days since we’ve last visited with my mother-in-law (MIL). While it’s great she … Read more
Moving a Loved One Home from Assisted Living
What to Do and How to Prepare When Moving a Loved One Home from Assisted Living Recently, we have had … Read more
10 Downsizing and ALF Packing Tips
Ten Tips for Downsizing and Packing for an ALF 1. Allow sufficient time for the ALF downsizing and moving process. … Read more
Retirement Planning with a Purpose: Where Do I Want to Be at 80?
What is the purpose of retirement planning? When most people think of retirement planning, they think about things like 401Ks, … Read more
Data Shows That Aging at Home is Growing; Here’s How You Can Do It
By 2035, one in three U.S. households, versus today’s one in five, will be headed by someone 65 or older. … Read more