Welcome to the Assisted Senior Living Blog. This blog was created so my wife and I can share and hopefully help other “kids” that are dealing with aging parents. We are also inviting other to share their experiences. This help is especially important if you are struggling with a older family member that is losing or lost some their mental ability but they don’t know it yet. In my case, dad is extremely stubborn. This in conjunction with the fact that he is not really in touch with the real world makes everyday things (that we take for granted) difficult. Housing, transportation and maintaining a stable financial picture are all difficult tasks. As we go thought the learning process about our family, we hope we can share this information with you. We have also done a lot or research on housing for seniors and would like to share that information.

In many cases, parent do not plan for a sudden event like a stroke or heart attach. When these things happen, the family is left to quickly find an independent living, assisted living, or nursing home in just a few days. We hope to compile a list of all the options for each of these facilities and then allow current or previous residents to review the staff, amenities, food, and treatment. When we recently went through the process, this information would have been priceless. I think we got lucky in our selection of an assisted living facility but that still remains to be seen.

We also want to add feature to the site to help both seniors and their families deal with transitions. If anyone has a suggestion on how to make this site more useful, please as a comment to one of the posts or use the contact us form. This site will be a long term project and we hope that it will be valuable to many people.