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Celebrating Assisted Living Week by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven This week ends National Assisted Living Week. You probably were completely unaware of this week..., we have many reasons to celebrate assisted living this week. Here's my personal word of thanks for all the folks...
Celebrate National Assisted Living Week by listening to a story by Lisa D. Patient Expert This week marks the 13th annual National Assisted Living Week.  This year's theme is Legacies... of our elders' lives down through the generations that care for them and love them".  The week kicks...
Independent Living, Active Adult, Housing with Services, Assisted Living. What's the Difference?!? by Lisa D. Patient Expert between 55+ housing, active adult communities, independent living, housing with services, and assisted living? It's easiest to distinguish assisted living, at least in Minnesota. On January 1st 2007...
New Minnesota Assisted Living Law by Lisa D. Patient Expert You've heard me rant about how legislation for assisted living will increase the cost of health... on January 1, 2007 that legislates senior housing and service providers calling themselves "assisted living...
Jon Harder, Sunwest, and the assisted living future by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven weeks ago I wrote about the challenges facing many assisted living companies that focused...I’ve never met Jon Harder, even though we live less than 40 miles apart, and have roots...
SEIU Unionization of Caregivers at Assisted Living Communities - Is this the Answer? by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven to Address SIEU's Assisted Living Campaign," noting that the union is stepping up efforts to unionize assisted living workers, maintaining that their focus is to "make sure assisted living communities provide...
ThirdAge’s Advice for Choosing a Memory Care Assisted Living or a Memory Care Residential Care Home by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert seven days a week (minimum 6 per day except Sunday for assisted living and minimum 4 per day... when you are looking for a suitable assisted living community or residential care home for your loved one. By Carole B...
Assisted Living companies in bankruptcy: what can a family do? by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven Every day I see a new article on another assisted living company entering financial difficulties. Some are filing for bankruptcy; many are on the brink. If you have a loved one in an assisted living community...
Caregiver Certification Course provides comprehensive online training for in-home, assisted living staff by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven 's Caregiver Certification Course, designed for in-home and assisted living caregivers, includes training... and assistance with daily living tasks like mobility, bathing, and toileting. Throughout the course students...
Let's not make nursing homes and assisted living Home-Like - let's make them home! by Sharon K. Brothers, MSW Healthy Living ProfessionalHealth Maven .” I thought, “What an appropriate concept for senior living!” Too often we focus on being home-like, when what we really offer is a home environment that is simply different from the home one lived in before. If we truly...

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Can Forteo be taken M-F instead of 7 days a week?
My 87-yr. old Mom is in an assisted living facility (in another state) after falling and breaking her hip.  Considering her a Fosamax failure, her long-time internist wants her on Forteo but the staff... because of some dementia) Mon-Fri only.  Any experience with taking Forteo only 5 days a week, not daily? RAC...crap

New home
We have recently moved my father-in-law to this nice assisted living facility for mid... to be professional and nice, and also they relate to him in his culture. He loves the LCD TVs in the living rooms... the rooms thinking the family can live with him. He still asks for my husband but since we see...crap

Dementia - When Good Days Go Bad
  My 88 year old mother has been living in an assisted living community for just over eight... in an assisted living community questionable.  Unlike some assisted living communities, hers does not provide....  A particular drug may be helpful for days, weeks, months, or longer.  Some are not well tolerated...crap

How to make him understand the new home is better?
My father-in-law is going to the assisted living home next week. The problem we have now is he insists that he wants to be where he is or where my own home is. He wants to be with my husband together in our own home. The doctor recommended the assisted living/nursing home when he had this catheter problem...crap

Making the Transition from Assisted Living to a Nursing Home
Assisted living centers can often make a good transitional home for elders who no longer feel... for some elders when the services that assisted living centers offer aren't enough. Then another move, this time...? Most assisted living centers do not offer medical care. Many offer memory units, but even then, skilled nursing...crap

Planning Ahead for the Transition into Assisted Living
into assisted living, can be a tough hurdle for families to overcome. The best way is to start the conversation.... Many seniors start out with their own private apartment and then progress through stages of assisted living...'t made plans for their transition into old age? If the time has come for your parents to alter their living...crap

Is combining zoloft and remeron recommended for 90 year old man with alzheimers?
My dad moved into an assisted living facility in February and was considered "pleasantly confused". He has no history of depression or psychosis and was on no meds. He fell in August, broke his hip and was moved...'s been about two weeks) He also doesn't seem to have much of an appetite, is very sleepy and they want to add...crap

My husband refuses meds at facility. How can he be made to take them.
He has been in the assisted living facility for 6 months.  He is 67 and diagnosed with degenerative dementia.  His behavior was violent before medication calmed him down.  Now he is very resistant and flatly refuses to take any.  The people in the facility know that they should back off and not persist...crap

Getting Help When Considering Assisted Living Recommended
When my mother and I toured assisted living centers together to see if she wanted to move..., eliminated several options).   Some assisted living centers are hugely expensive and offer many services..., assisted living centers, if you actually want any other personal services, you need to pay extra and...crap

any info on bi-polar in the elderly - say combined with early dementia?
trying to help our dad, age 74, stay in assisted living situation however, he keeps threatening leaving again.  When do we step in and when is it that we must just let whatever happens . happen? expectamiraclecrap