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| Questions to consider when choosing a senior care setting: |
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What type of help or assistance is provided in the basic monthly fee?
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Can you meet the people who are providing the day to day care?
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there a small consistent staff that offers continuity of care?
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What happens when the resident needs more physical and cognitive care? |
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Is the resident able to stay in the same room, receive care from the same caregivers or do they have to move to different room in a different building and meet an entirely New group of staff?
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Is it possible that the resident may need more care than the facility can provide in the future?
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Do you feel like you get personal care in the facility where you currently are?
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Do you call all the staff by first name and do they all call you by your first name?
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Do you feel like the staff where you currently are would take the time to sit and listen to you, watch a TV show with you, or talk to you at each meal?
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These are highly emotional parts of feeling like you are being cared for emotionally. In our experience many focus on physical care but emotional health is much more important in making people feel good than physical care.
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We think it far better to consider continuity of care to improve independence, mood and quality of life today and to ensure a comfortable, familiar, setting with familiar staff going forward.
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