Tag: assisted living
Types of Senior Housing and Terminology
The slides below are background for my November 9, 2023 webcast for the Maryland Association for Parkinson’s Support on selecting a Life Plan Community for Parkinson’s patients in Baltimore.
Finding A Good Death – Understanding and Shopping For Hospice Care
Background Like most issues about which I post, the topic of “Finding A Good Death” arose from a personal connection. In this case when a neighbor consulted me about his sister who was being referred to hospice care after battling cancer. While not an expert in hospice care, I have long studied seniors housing and…
Immigration and Senior Caregiving Linked
It has been several months since I updated my blog because I have gotten busy serving on the Board of Quality Care Properties (QCP) and with some consulting work. I am also just back from a vacation in Costa Rica about which I hope to soon do a post. An article in today’s (January…
Staying At-Home With Care Exceeds Cost of A Senior Housing Community
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Most seniors and their families see the monthly cost of a senior housing facility as much higher than the monthly cost of living at home with family care, or even with part-time or full-time home healthcare. But the math that most seniors and families use to make this comparison assumes no implied cost…
The Cost of Care
Raw Cost of Care The chart below shows the average monthly cost of care for skilled nursing (nursing home), memory care (dementia), assisted living and independent living facilities in the Baltimore/Washington region for 2015. It also shows the cost for 24 hour / 7 day a week home health aide care and 24/7 home…
To Stay or Move – Adapting An Existing Home vs. Moving To Seniors Housing
On Monday June 6, 2016, The “Ask Encore” column by Glenn Ruffenach in the Wall Street Journal responded to a question from a reader about “what features, at a minimum, should be added to our current home or incorporated in a new home so that we can stay in our home as we get older.” …
Pivot Points In Seniors Housing/Post-Acute Care Create Investment Opportunities
On Tuesday, May 17, 2015 I was featured in a question and answer session over breakfast with subscribers of Senior Care Investor, moderated by its editor Steve Monroe. We covered a wide range of topics. I summarize below key takeaways from my Senior Care Investor interview and provide a link to the nearly one hour…
UnSenior “Seniors Housing”
Earlier this month I toured The Stories at Congressional Plaza, a new type of “seniors housing” project designed to appeal to seniors as well as those of other ages looking for a high-tech, high-service environment in an urban mixed use setting. The Stories opened in February 2016 and is a joint effort of Federal Realty…
Confessions of a Recent CCRC Mover
The question I most encounter when speaking with friends, family members and acquaintances about seniors housing is: How do you get a reluctant family member of advanced age living alone to agree to move to seniors housing? It doesn’t seem to matter if the family member is 79 or 99, there is still a strong…
Finding Happiness In Senior Housing
Three things came together to spark this blog: A January 17, 2015 New York Times article entitled “Mean Girls in the Retirement Home” (http://nyti.ms/1KStZ4j), A 2014 study by the American Seniors Housing Association (seniorshousing.org) entitled Unlocking the Mystery Behind Very Satisfied Independent Living Customers – Make Them “Feel at Home” and A dinner conversation with…