Wisdom Wednesday: Aging Wisdom's Podcast
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114 episodes
Senior Housing Touring Tips: Next Steps
You’ve reviewed senior housing options, narrowed down the choices, toured your short list, then toured with your parents, enjoyed meals, taken notes and pictures, asked questions of staff and residents, and you’ve made your decision. <...
Senior Housing Touring Tips 9 & 10
The last two of our Touring Tips in this series are:Tip 9: Inquire if residents are ever asked to move out.Tip 10: Trust Your GutTip 9: Inquire if residents are ever asked to ...
Senior Housing Touring Tips 6, 7, & 8
In this episode of Senior Housing Touring Tips, we review the following:Tip 6: Get the full tourAs we discussed earlier, a tour usually highlights the best parts of the community. And if you are looking at ind...
Senior Housing Touring Tips 3, 4, & 5
You’ve done your homework, perhaps even received some brochures in the mail. And now you’ve narrowed down the field of possibilities to 3 to 5 communities. This next series of tips will help as you tour communities in person. These ...
Senior Housing Touring Tips 1 & 2
If you're on a mission to find the right senior living community for your parents, you've come to the right place. Our Aging Wisdom logo is a ginkgo biloba leaf, an ancient symbol of wisdom and resilience in aging. The ginkgo is also a symbol o...
The Cost of Senior and Long-Term Care Housing: Who Can Help?
In the series of episodes, we’ve explored what it will cost, the unexpected costs to prepare for, as well as who pays? Who can help you make sense of all the senior and long-term care housing options? Making a decision can be overwhelming...
The Cost of Senior and Long-Term Care Housing: Who Pays?
So far we’ve covered the breakdown of costs and
The Cost of Senior and Long-Term Care Housing: Unexpected Costs
In the previous episodes of this series on The Cost of Senior and Long-Term Care Housing we reviewed the typical breakdown of costs for retirement communitie...
The Cost of Senior and Long-Term Care Housing: What Will It Cost?
Costs vary greatly from region to region and as you might expect, prices in larger cities are much higher than outside urban areas. Costs also vary considerably by type of care needed – home health, assisted living, memory care, adult family ho...
The Cost of Senior and Long-Term Care Housing: Will It Break the Bank?
An educated consumer is a wise consumer. And senior and long-term care housing can be filled with added costs and fees that may catch you off-guard if you aren’t aware of them ahead of a move.Understanding what you will pay is essential....
Senior Housing Options: Who Can Help?
Making sense of all the senior housing and long-term care options can be overwhelming. But you don’t have to make the decision alone.There are several different avenues you can go for guidance.Most senior centers have a social wor...
Senior Housing Options: Adult Family Homes
Adult Family Homes (AFHs) are located in neighborhoods, usually licensed for six residents. They are common in Washington State, though not an option in every state. They provide room, board, laundry, necessary supervision, and nec...
Senior Housing Options: CCRCs and Life Plan Communities
CCRCs and Life Plan Communities (LPCs) are larger, high-end communities that typically include Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, and sometimes Skilled Nursing. Healthy, active adults move into a CCRC as an independen...
Senior Housing Options: Skilled Nursing/Rehab
Skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, and rehab centers provide short-term, residential rehabilitation services to individuals recovering after a hospital stay following an illness, injury, or surgery, or long-term care for individuals who...
Senior Housing Options: Memory Care
In the early stages of Alzheimer’s and other dementias, most people can live and be safely cared for at home by family or professional caregivers, or in an assisted living residence. A move to memory care may be prompted by a change...
Senior Housing Options: Considerations for Assisted Living
It’s important to be realistic about what Assisted Living provides – these are some aspects to consider:A move to Assisted Living for someone who has been struggling with navigating living in their single-family home or condo can be...
Senior Housing Options: Advantages to Assisted Living
Last week we provided an overview of Assisted Living (AL). While “aging in place” has its benefits, such individualized care can be e...
Senior Housing Options: Assisted Living, an overview
Assisted Living provides personalized, supported care in a residential setting. Residents have their own apartments The monthly cost is reflective of the size of the apartment and supports needed. People often move to assisted livin...
Making Sense of Housing & LTC Options: Independent Living
Understanding the differences between senior housing and long-term care options is essential to making the best choice to meet needs, goals, and well-being, while providing peace of mind. The choices can be overwhelming when it comes to retirem...
Now What? 4 next steps
Now what? 4 steps to understanding options, risks and benefits of each.First step: Get educate about care options.Second step: Understanding the cost of various options and your parents’ financial situation.
Is the Grass Greener? Insights on Moving to a Senior Living Community
Is the Grass Greener? Benefits to moving to a retirement communityWe’ve look at the reasons your parents are resistant to change. We’ve talk about
Home Sweet Home?
Do you have a plan for the time when home it is no longer safe and supportive for your parent/s, your spouse, your partner, or you? Every family and every situation is different. Just a few of the more common challenges we see to st...
Wisdom Wednesday: "I will never move!"
During the pandemic, we created a series of educational online courses focused on topics that families grapple with most often. This became Aging Wisdom University, a way to continue delivering relevant information and resources to family care ...