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Tips for your parents moving into an assisted living

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There comes a phase in everyone’s life where a parent is obliged to give up their comfortable lifestyle to live with their potential peers in an assisted-living facility. However, as easy as it sounds, making such a decision has always been an uphill task. Why you might ask? Imagine having to give up a familiar place stuffed with emotional memories to live in unfamiliar territory with unfamiliar faces. But that’s not it; the myths and superstitions that come along with senior living have only piled on more hurdles to attaining the transition. Not to worry! There are enough ways to evade such hurdles and offer a smooth transition for your parents into senior living. Why Parents Transition Into Senior Living is Needed? Looking for reasons for transition? The answer is quite simple; Sudden changes can be catastrophic for people of any age, let alone the elderly. Put yourself in your parent’s shoes - After decades of hard work, the pressure is finally off as you decide to cherish you

The Role of Caregiver in an Assisted Living Facility

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The beauty of life is that it has a way of grace. A slow and steady pace in which it strides, we do not even realize when we were kids and have grown and are already in the senior citizens’ club. When we see elderly people, we think they are growing old. But the fact is that we all are growing old and all it takes it to make us realize is that time. You born, grow up and finishes college and got married to the love of your life. In all this process, we are too busy that we do not realize our parents are growing old too and need consistent and constant care both from the physical and mental fronts. Many children are fortunate that they could take care of their parents on their own. However, that is not case with a lot of young people out there. They would be living a life that runs on prefixed scheduled for the next couple of years. They prioritize, they make alternatives, and substitutes for those alternatives to carry out their responsibilities. But life has its ways, some