A Must Know When Looking for Adult Family Home!
What an adult family home?
An adult care home is residential home that you and I would have in our own neighborhood. The requirements that usually 6 to 10 people with live together, dining, and do activities together.
What an assistance living or retirement community?
A retirement community which could have a hundred apartment or 200 residents in one facility.
What are some advantages of adult family home?
An adult family home have only six to eight residents living, dining and socializing together. Meal and social time are at the same time. Adult family home is bit more like a family setting.
People are there for either memory care or stroke so very acute care needs. For mentally aware a smaller environment might be much better setting.
Typically adult family home has round-the-clock is 24 hours and having to wait staff usually at night. typically has round-the-clock is 24 hours and having to wait staff usually at night.
Lot of Adult Family Home take Medicaid after a short period or after 2/3 years. This is very important because it gives a big piece of mind for the resident. They do not have to move when their private money run out. They can stay indefinitely in familiar house they are accustomed to.
You can stretch your stay in home because a lot of times the rates goes up slightly over time. In contrast in an assisted-living your rates continue to go up as your care goes up.
What are some disadvantages of adult family home?
With the socialization you only have five or six or eight other people to depend on for your social outlook in life.
The extracurricular activities are limited. In contrast, assistance living or retirement community can pull off plethora of activities because they can entertain a hundred or a hundred fifty people at once.
What do I look for when I tour the adult family home?
When touring always look at cleanliness. What are the showers look like? Use the bathroom while you're there and see if safety/comfort are in place.
Observe the other residents. Do they have their makeup on or is there hair brushed and properly dressed for the time of the day?
Try to get a general sense of well-being of the current residents.
Look up the history of an adult family home if there's been some health violations. All of the state websites if they have been fractions listed and their last reports. By law an adult family home has to be able to supply you with last year report.
Get a placement advisor that person can also help to know what's a good Adult Family Home in your area.