A Legal MinuteCaring for aging parents
What Assisted Living Really Looks Like
The short answer
The speaker describes assisted living as ranging from large corporate communities to small residential homes, and says families often lack realistic expectations about the care. As he describes it, largely for cost reasons, non-clinical staff give most care, including to residents with complex clinical needs; his work includes helping families understand what is really provided.
From the full episode When Aging Parents Need More Support: Resources Families Should Know About (21:03).
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Transcript
Senior living itself, so when I say senior living, I'm referring to that. I'm talking about what we call assisted living, and there's various forms of assisted living. There's corporate assisted living with big apartments and all this kind of stuff, and then of course there's these small residential homes.
Families are not prepared. They do not have the right expectations most of the time, so what kind of care these folks provide. Unfortunately, and this is for cost issues, even though people get sticker shock when they hear it's 5,000 a month or 7,000 a month to live in assisted living, the reality is these are largely non-clinical people taking care of people who have complex clinical needs.
So you have non-licensed people handing them out medications and managing medication care. There's one nurse for 90 people in a building. So helping people understand what's really being provided for in assisted living. I mean, I know they feel like they're paying 7, 8,000, 9,000 a month and they should get excellent care.
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