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Knowing When It’s Time for Assisted Living

Sometimes an aging parent’s need for help is sudden and obvious. More often, though, it gradually becomes apparent.

How will you know? Watch for:

  • Changes in your loved one’s behavior
  • Ignoring favorite hobbies
  • Missing dates with friends
  • Forgetting to pay bills

Not every change means danger,
but when a shift happens it’s important to understand why.
Tag along to your loved one’s doctor appointments and ask questions.
– Claudia Fine, SeniorBridge


Staying at Home

Keeping a loved one in his or her house – or yours – can be challenging if your loved one needs daily help with tasks. Thankfully, there is Respite Care service that makes this option easier.


Once you understand the person’s situation,
you can help develop plans.
Although you may not see yourself as a “caregiver,”
that’s the term for anyone who looks after a person
who needs assistance with daily tasks.
– Peter Notarstefano, LeadingAge


Getting Your Loved One on Board

Set a time line
Try presenting care, in whatever form, as something to try out for a little while.

Make your relative the boss
Describe care providers as “assistants” to show that your loved one is still in charge.

Tweak your language
Frame help in the way that will most appeal to your relative. Maybe it’s a deserved luxury; maybe it’s something recommended by a trusted doctor or friend.

Don’t command
Include your loved one in any decisions, and avoid telling her what she “needs to do”; this usually triggers resistance, warns Linda Fodrini-Johnson, executive director of Eldercare Services.

Seek answers
If your relative is reluctant to accept care, try to figure out why, says Jackie Lapidus, executive director of Care Management Associates. Your relative may be assuming one scenario while you’re imagining another.

Turn the tables
Remind your loved one that by accepting help, he is easing your fears and making your life less stressful.

Source: AARP

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Community Village is operated for the purpose of
making assisted living affordable to frail elders with limited means.

Supplementing the modest resident fees, Community Village is sustained by charitable gifts from
churches, businesses, professionals, community groups and generous people like you.
Your charitable gift today – of any size – may make it possible
for one more frail elder to receive needed services.

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Community Village Senior Assisted Living is owned and operated by A&D Charitable Foundation, Inc. as a private not-for-profit home for seniors. It is licensed as a Michigan Home for the Aged license #AH 730401359

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3200 Hospital Road
Saginaw, MI 48603
Phone: (989) 792-5442
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Saginaw, MI 48608

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