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
Housing
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
I Ditched the ALF and Brought Dad Back Home, and I’ll Never Send Him Back
Our family worried about Dad living alone after Mom died. We worried about what would happen if he fell or … Read more