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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Facility situation you’re going to put her into is not any safer than living at home. She’s not going to get better care there so don’t fool yourself with that idea. But I’ve done caregiving for my in-home parents and I understand your burnout feeling.[/quote]
OP here. It will be safer than her current home.
Downsizing (and decluttering) from a packed and cluttered 1 bedroom to a studio will help reduce trip hazards. Less turns, more “space”. 
Also, when she falls - there will be people there. That is much safer than living alone. [/quote]

OP just be prepared that facilities are NOT all the same. Even those that are exorbitantly expensive and "high-end". Safe can be a relative word. Adjust your expectations.

I've been to high-end facilities where you walk in and everything is calm and clean and orderly. Then you discover virtually all the residents are lying in their beds watching TV. Some aren't even watching TV - just lying there. At 11 a.m. And 3 p.m.

Why? Because they were all drugged. It's so much easier when you don't have to do anything to care for people because they aren't capable of DOING anything. That includes falls. You don't have to worry about picking them up if they aren't walking around. It's also easier on your payroll budget if you don't have to hire as many people.

Some facilities have the policy that if anyone falls the staff do not pick them up but call emergency services (911) instead. It's for liability reasons. So the people lie on the floor until EMTs arrive, they take them to hospital to be checked over and then return them to facility. And local taxpayers wind up paying for this and the facility owners laugh all the way to the bank.

The fact of the matter is that elder care is big business. It is not unusual for venture capitalists to buy up smaller facilities and then turn around and sell them to larger conglomerates, helping to establish monopolies. I've looked at licensing documents for ownership and have also been shocked when meeting some of these owners and their blatant honesty about being in it for the money and doing the bare minimum until facilities can be sold.

All I can tell you is practice due diligence and look carefully beyond the glossy pamphlets and smiles and assurances of the intake coordinators. Or their well-oiled tour that is designed to show you shiny, happy people.

Check with your state and find out about complaints. Ask other people's family members visiting the facility what their thoughts are. Maybe even stop by the nearest fire station and ask how often they get called out to the facility. See if there is a volunteer ombudsman assigned to the facility and talk to them.

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obviously you must do your research.  My parents are in a CCRC (still in IL).  The memory care and assisted living have tons of activities daily.  I've toured the facitilites.  My parents know people who have transitioned there (but have a spouse still in IL so they still get brought to meals and part of the day with spouse in IL), and the facility is nothing like the horrors you describe above.   Heck, the assisted living/memory care had an indoor  "petting zoo" and "carnival" for residents.  They have at least 1-2 major activities like this weekly, and many more smaller events for residents daily to keep them engaged.   
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