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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assisted living facilities do not accept and cannot provide safe level of care for elderly with dementia. This plan makes no sense. [/quote]

Not true. Look for a assisted living facility that specializes in memory care.[/quote]

I'm not the pp you quoted

But "assisted living" is not the same as "memory care."  I am a pp whose mom moved into assisted living (my dad and local brother were in denial) when she SHOULD HAVE moved into memory care.     Her "assisted living" facility did not have a memory care unit and they ended up moving into a completely different facility (several miles away, but owned by the same parent company) just a few weeks later.

"Assisted living" is not adequate for those with dementia (and OP describes her MIL as having dementia in her first post.)[/quote]

Some assisted living places do have memory care and are set up to deal with the progression of Alzheimer's.  But that is not true for all facilities. You have to be really careful. And if you will end up needing Medicaid to pay for it, you may as well start off in a nursing home that takes Medicaid.[/quote]

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