When it comes to finding an assisted living facility, Ohio is the bomb. In the development of this site, I am trying to compile a complete list of licensed assisted living facilities and I am also gathering reference information like Ombudsman phone numbers and where to get inspection reports and complaints. As I have been gathering this information, I found the Ohio Long Term Care website (www.ltcohio.org) and was blown away. They are years ahead of most other states and decades ahead of states like Indiana. Currently, assisted living facilities in Indiana do not require a license if they are not dispensing medicine. This sounds like anyone can set up an assisted living facility in their basement, as long as they aren’t dispensing medicine.

Ohio, on the other hand, not only requires licensing but has an amazing website where they post information about complaints and inspection reports. In addition to that the Ohio government conducts annual surveys of assisted facility residents. Tabulates the data and posts it on their website. This allows users to easily select facilities based on the reviews of current and previous residents. Even before I started this site, this was one of my goals. To help disseminate that information, I will be writing administrative reviews based on the reviews conducted by the Ohio Long Term Care group. I also hope to have the same level of quality information for every state in the United States (even Indiana) and Canada. In other words, Ohio is a role model for a standardized system that should be implemented in every single state. I’m sure that many states have limited budgets and are not able to provide this level of service to seniors but it is critical to have safe housing for seniors that need special help . For this reason, Assistedseniorliving.net will try be the next best thing. Please try checking our directory to see the current status on tabulating reviews and other critical information about assisted living facilities across the United States. With an estimated 40,000 assisted living facilities in the US alone, this task will take years to complete but hopefully we can get some volunteers to help with that task.