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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would not recommend Memory Care in an Assisted Living Facility. Those facilities are unregulated and for profit. You will pay A LOT of money for your loved one to be taken care of by minimally trained staffed and certainly not experts in elderly or memory issues. Do your research and talk to families of relatives in Memory Care before you do anything. Assisted Living facilities are desperate for customers since COVID and you will get the hard sell to put your loved one into one of those places.[/quote]

So what do you recommend?

My mom would wander outside on her own, so she needed to be watched 24/7.   My dad couldn't sleep or even just go to the bathroom without my mom walking out the door and down the street.

Where my parents live, a team of caregivers for 24/7 coverage  would have been $30,000/month, which my parents could not afford.   Memory care was $8,000/month, which they CAN afford.

So what would you recommend to my parents?   Just let my mom wander out into traffic or God knows what dangerous situation?  Elderly people DIE  horrific deaths under those circumstances.[/quote]

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