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When social, health or emotional factors make you think that a move is in the future for yourself or a loved one, A Caring Heart is here to help. Our referral services are available free of charge to seniors who are moving into communities as private pay and long term care insurance residents.
Here are some questions frequently asked of Kathy regarding choices in senior housing:
What kind of senior housing is available in the Vancouver, Washington area?
There are more than 225 housing choices available in the Vancouver, Washington area. A Caring Heart has the expertise to help you find the location that best suits your situation and provides the physical and mental care necessary for you or your loved one.
Click here to view a chart that illustrates the number of market rate housing options available in each neighborhood and surrounding community in Clark County, Washington.
What are Senior Living Communities?
Housing options for seniors that offer amenities that can provide for a better quality of life through socialization, nutrition, physical programs, and mental stimulation.
Why should I consider moving into a Senior Living Community?
Senior Housing Communities provide a network of safeguards for people to continue living in the same community while progressing through different levels of care.
What is a Retirement Apartment?
Retirement apartments provide senior housing plus supportive services such as meals, shopping, activities, and laundry. They do not provide personal care services, such as medication management or bathing and dressing.
What is Assisted Living?
Assisted Living Communities provides a social environment with medical and safety monitoring. It includes support services plus a staff that is specially trained to provide personal care and intermittent nursing services including medication management. This care is outlined in the resident’s care plan, documented by the staff at the facility, and supervised by a nurse.
How do I know when it is time to move into Assisted Living?
When there is concern that it is no longer safe to stay at home or in your apartment alone. This could be related to health, emotional, or social factors. Examples include weight loss, falling, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and wandering.
What are Memory Care facilities?
These are boarding home facilities that have staff that is trained to work with people who have such diseases as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and memory loss as a result of such impairments as strokes. A high level of both physical and mental care is usually available in these communities.
What are Adult Family Homes?
Adult Family Homes are small communities with no more than six residents who live in a house that provides for their needs much like an assisted living facility. However the ratio of caregivers to residents is usually higher and can provide for residents whose needs are greater.
What are ADL’s?
Assistance with Daily Living - these are the tasks that caregivers are trained to help residents to accomplish in order to have a good quality of live. The categories are bathing, toileting, transferring, personal hygiene, eating, dressing, and mobility.
For more information about how the A Caring Heart referral service works, click here.
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