By | Published: January 19, 2011
An organization’s response to a crisis affects more than their credibility, image and reputation – it can affect the lives of the people they serve. Assisted Living facilities encounter occasional crises.
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By melissa | Published: January 17, 2011
Many assisted living facilities have noticed that children have a way of bringing sunshine and smiles into a nursing home or assisted living facility. Some schools and assisted living facilities are teaming together so that seniors and children can reap the many benefits and rewards of interacting together. But it doesn’t take a special community
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By melissa | Published: January 14, 2011
One of the health issues seniors in an assisted living facility may face is a chronic wound. Potential residents should ask health care providers at the facility if they are equipped to identify and treat wounds
By melissa | Published: January 14, 2011
One of the health issues seniors in an assisted living facility may face is a chronic wound. Potential residents should ask health care providers at the facility if they are equipped to identify and treat wounds
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By | Published: January 12, 2011
Even in ancient history, seniors experienced signs of memory loss. It is well documented that in ancient medical texts that people in advanced age would exhibit some signs of dementia and the physicians of the day prescribed various treatments from diet to bloodletting
Posted in Assisted Living | Tagged alzheimer's disease, ancient-history, ancient-medical, dementia, dementia-and, for-such, general info, longer-use, physicians, prescribed-various, some-signs, the-day, well-documented
By | Published: January 7, 2011
“I mopped my kitchen floor every day for sixty years,” says Irene, a resident at an assisted living facility in the South. “One of the criteria for choosing a new place to live was that I didn’t have to clean anymore.
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By melissa | Published: January 5, 2011
One Wichita assisted living facility has decided to have residents rehabbing from strokes, bypass surgery, and more keep up and active…by getting down. At Medicalodge, Otis Dailey “I don’t like to see nobody hurting or in pain or anything like that,” says Dailey, “and just to see these people get out of bed and see
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By melissa | Published: January 3, 2011
Elderly Americans in Arizona, Maryland, New York and Ohio will soon find themselves living in upgraded apartments equipped to meet their physical needs because of $19.5 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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By | Published: December 31, 2010
Lloyd Kellum had his first taste of providing assisted living services by being a family caregiver.
By melissa | Published: December 29, 2010
At AssistedLivingFacilities.org, the staff realizes that our options are not the only ones. In fact adult day care centers, home health care aids and nursing homes are all part of the larger galaxy of senior care options
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