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A: An Assisted Living Home is one of the living arrangements available to senior citizens who cannot comfortably live alone. These care homes are licensed private homes, located in residential neighborhoods. Private care homes differ from the larger assisted living facilities or nursing homes in that the ratio of caregivers to residents is less. Their meals are home cooked, nutritious, and are served at the dining room table. Most importantly, someone is there with your loved one 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Q: What are the advantages of a small care home vs. a large care facility?
A: Small facilities tailor personalized, meaningful activities for the specific individual. Small assisted care facilities give greater care than larger facilities and have less staff turnover.
Q: How does an Assisted Living Home handle the medical needs of residents?
A:Adult care facility operators and staff must complete CPR and first-aid training certified by the American Red Cross. Each adult care facility must have procedures for obtaining emergency assistance, such as an ambulance. Adult care facilities are required to keep individual resident records and store them so that information is immediately available in an emergency. This record must contain written information, including the name, address and phone number of anyone who should be notified in an emergency, and the name and number of the resident's doctor. If a resident's health takes a turn for the worse, the adult care facility must make sure that the resident receives proper medical attention or, if necessary, is transferred to a medical facility.
Q:How will a resident adjust to living in an Assisted Living Home?
A: It is normal to expect an adjustment period for the resident, family and the entire adult care household  once a new resident moves into an Assisted Living Home.
Whenever we are required to make changes in our lives , which we do not fully support , we resist the change. Persons who move to an Assisted Living Home may experience a need to adjust to the new location and new caregivers in their lives. Family members may also experience mixed feelings about moving loved ones from a home they have lived in, tended to and cared for, and shared important life events. It is normal to expect an adjustment period for the resident, family and the entire foster home household once a new resident moves into an Adult Care Home. One way to help in the adjustment is for the resident and family to see this as another stage in a life experience. The resident may resist the move to the Assisted Living Home, especially if he or she does not agree with the assessment by family and professionals that he or she is incapable of living alone. It will be helpful to the resident for the family to make frequent visits to the home especially in the first three months, and then to make regular visits to the resident that meet the resident's needs and preferences after that adjustment time. The resident's worst fear is that he or she is being abandoned, and that the family doesn't need him or her any longer. All people have a high need to be wanted and loved. This need does not disappear because one is living in an Assisted Living Home with competent staff. Families have a responsibility to keep the resident in their lives both before and after placement in an Assisted Living Home. Adjustments are easier for residents who visit the home and have a say in the decision to live in the home than for those who have the decision made for them. Adjustments are also easier for the resident who continues to have outside contact with family, friends and former co-workers in the community. The family may have feelings of guilt, frustration or relief. The resident may have trouble sleeping, be angry, confused or homesick. Those who live in the Assisted Living Home will have to go through changes of routine, and have to develop new relationships as they get to know the new resident. These reactions are all normal.
Q:  What are our fees?
A: Fees are charged according to the level of care required by the resident.  The rates are very affordable and guaranteed as long as the level of care does not change, and start from as low as $2000. We ONLY accept private pay.
 
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