Continuing Care Retirement Communities

ucsd_ucla_dad
Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:19:29 +0000

That’s great info worknprogress2. My mother’s still living independently but has had to go to several different skilled nursing facilities after medical care. I noticed that many of these are places that also include assisted living but it seemed that the two were fairly segregated with separate entrances, separate staff, etc. I also noticed that they’re frequently ‘full’ and that the hospital goes through a list of facilities until they find one with an open bed. Once a bed is emptied it fills up with a new person within a few hours or at least a day.

I know part of the marketing hype from the ‘assisted living’ facility, which is very expensive, is that they also have an on-site ‘skilled nursing’ facility with the implication that one can simply move from one side to the other as need be and still be convenient to their spouse and friends who might be in the assisted living facility and I’m sure most of the potential residents view that as a major benefit and use that info to decide on the place. However, since the skilled nursing places seem continually full there’s no way they can guarantee the person can stay there and I’m sure there’s a lot of disappointment.

Your suggested questions are good ones and I’ll be sure to ask them should the need arise to have a relative/friend move into one.