Reply to Avoid for-profit senior living

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "Avoid for-profit senior living"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Other than the difficulty of managing staff yourself, it seems like a better deal to get private care in a normal apartment. Or am I missing something?[/quote]

One of the biggest benefits for my elderly relatives was the medication management.  My uncle was on 13 meds, prescribed by different doctors, and no one person was managing the medical side of his care.   When my aunt and uncle moved into an assisted living  facility, they had someone overseeing the whole thing, making sure the refills were done, the dosage was correct and so on.  It just wasn’t working when they lived on their own. [/quote]

This is also really helpful when they get sick. My mom lives in assisted living and when she just got Covid her doctor called in Paxlovid prescription and the assisted living place was able to get it from the pharmacy they use the same day and give it to her the next five days. When she later developed nausea and vomiting from Covid or maybe it was a virus she got at the same time, the doctor prescribed anti nausea with pedialyte/ensure shake type drink twice a day that the staff went to give her. We didn't need to deal with any of that. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics