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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This was my lamentation and complaint while my elderly mother lived in a CCRC. Learned there are services for everything: sitters/aides (night only, 24/7, companionship)
med reminders and help, transportation, housekeeping, maintenance, even moving, packing and decorating.

Larger communities will have all of the above and more.

Save your money because it’s expensive.[/quote]

An elderly person living alone, and with dementia, will not be able to navigate any of that.[/quote]

This PP quoted and my point was that an elderly, childless person should plan ahead and ideally save and make arrangements to live in a CCRC where all  above needs will be met. As another mentioned, you can be assigned a guardian and or ward of the state and you’ll be (ware)housed in a low quality facility that accepts indigents- sorry to put it that way but this is precisely what happened to my great uncle. Never married, low income, reclusive…estranged from family. Fell and broke his arm - transported by ambulance to hospital then nursing home where he died after a few weeks.[/quote]

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