Recall that assisted living communities offer your loved one a place to live where they can receive basic assistance, while retaining a measure of their privacy and independence. This assistance could be housekeeping, meal preparation, 24-7 monitoring, shower assistance, toileting, medication assistance or reminders; transportation and help with eating, or dressing.
Everyone changes physically and mentally with age, but there are some changes that can really put a loved one’s safety at risk. If you think that a loved one may require a transition to assisted living or elderly care, then you must first assess whether they are undergoing a true functional decline. Functional decline is sometimes difficult to diagnose as individual symptoms often go unnoticed
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