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Session 3 - Questions You Need to Ask When "Memory Care Facility Shopping", Part 1
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Dear Student,
Welcome back! This is Session 3 of your free online email course on "Memory Care Facility Shopping." ♦♦So far, you've discovered you have some resources you didn't know you had you and also have some ways to investigate before you even step foot on the property. ♦♦I know you are anxious to go take a look at some of these properties But first, you need to ask some questions and one or two of them you need to ask even before you go to the property, especially if your time is very limited. If you are using that super resource of a “matchmaker” service, ask them these questions. |
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♦♦The first thing you need to ask is about the financial responsibility. Is insurance or a government agency going to be playing for the services? Is it going to be coming out of somebody's budget? Your budget?
♦♦♦♦Talk with a professional financial planner before your spend your own retirement funds, sell your house, or rob from your children’s college funds! ♦♦♦♦
That is one question you can get answers to on the phone. Pick up your phone and talk to these various facilities. Ask before you show up! Will it work financially? If it does not fit into that budget, regardless of how good the facility is, if it's not financially doable it's not doable.
Write the answers down in your notebook under the facility name. It will get confusing, especially if you need to move quickly.
In tomorrow's session, you will be have the opportunity to print the questions from today and tomorrow so that you have these questions with you when you do make that unannounced first visit.
Note: Feel free to ask any other questions! This list is NOT a definitive list by any means, but rather simply a good starting place!
Trusting you are making some headway as you go thru the maze,
Linda L Culbreth
P.S. - Be sure to open Session 4 - More Questions You Need to Ask When "Memory Care Facility Shopping". You can print both day's questions out.
♦♦♦♦Talk with a professional financial planner before your spend your own retirement funds, sell your house, or rob from your children’s college funds! ♦♦♦♦
That is one question you can get answers to on the phone. Pick up your phone and talk to these various facilities. Ask before you show up! Will it work financially? If it does not fit into that budget, regardless of how good the facility is, if it's not financially doable it's not doable.
Write the answers down in your notebook under the facility name. It will get confusing, especially if you need to move quickly.
In tomorrow's session, you will be have the opportunity to print the questions from today and tomorrow so that you have these questions with you when you do make that unannounced first visit.
Note: Feel free to ask any other questions! This list is NOT a definitive list by any means, but rather simply a good starting place!
- What is the staffing ratios? It should be no more than 5 residents per care-giver including nurses and aides around the clock. Do not include administrative, cleaning, laundry, kitchen staff, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, nor beauty shop/barbershop personnel.
- What kind of special training in dementia and Alzheimer's care does the facility require of their caregivers?
- How does the facility reach out with care for the family members of the residents?
- What about mood altering medication? How many of your residents currently receive anti-psychotic, anti-anxiety or antidepressant medications as a means to control their dementia related behaviors?
- My loved one tends to be withdrawn. What ways do you keep the risk of isolation at a minimum?
- What activities do you provide for your memory care residents?
- Do you have different activities that are geared toward the men than for the women?
- Does this facility have a circular walking pattern inside the building so residents can always get back to their own room? Or do you have dead-end halls and walkways?
- Does this facility have a circular walking trail in a secured area outside?
- How often are the residents bathed? What kind of assistance?
- What kind of special assistance do you give to those that need help dressing and feeding and toileting?
- Do the caregivers speak the same language as the residences?
- What would be included in an individual care plan for my loved one?
- How does my loved one get medical attention? Is there a doctor that visits or do you take him to the hospital or do you take them transport into the doctor's office? Will the staff make those arrangements or does the family have to make them?
- What are specific visiting hours and can I come over at anytime 24/7?
- What about wandering? My loved one has been known to wander around. How do you keep them safe and secure?
- How do you handle a resident that's having a really hard time adjusting to being here?
Trusting you are making some headway as you go thru the maze,
Linda L Culbreth
P.S. - Be sure to open Session 4 - More Questions You Need to Ask When "Memory Care Facility Shopping". You can print both day's questions out.
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