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Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 58Family. Publisher: Consumer Reports, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Congregate housing | Consumer Reports (Periodical) | Investigations | Life care communities | Medical care -- Cost of | Older people -- Long-term careDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Since they started to dot the U.S. landscape in the early 1980s, assisted-living facilities have become the best hope of America's seniors for avoiding confinement in a nursing home. Instead of a hospital environment, assisted living promised private apartments and communal dining in hotel-like settings, and some help with daily needs such as dressing and bathing. In CR's three-month investigation, we found that assisted living now presents quite a different picture....Seniors and their families, anxious to avoid nursing homes, have come to look upon assisted living as the preferred place to go when health starts failing. Assisted-living operators, out of compassion or a need to fill beds, accept and keep residents even if their condition has worsened. As a result, many of the nearly 1 million people now in assisted-living facilities are more likely to be frail and sick than independent. And that has created a troubling mismatch between the care a resident needs and the care a facility and its staff can give." (CONSUMER REPORTS) This article presents the findings of the Consumer Reports investigation of assisted-living facilities.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Assisted Living, July 2005; pp. 28-33.
"Since they started to dot the U.S. landscape in the early 1980s, assisted-living facilities have become the best hope of America's seniors for avoiding confinement in a nursing home. Instead of a hospital environment, assisted living promised private apartments and communal dining in hotel-like settings, and some help with daily needs such as dressing and bathing. In CR's three-month investigation, we found that assisted living now presents quite a different picture....Seniors and their families, anxious to avoid nursing homes, have come to look upon assisted living as the preferred place to go when health starts failing. Assisted-living operators, out of compassion or a need to fill beds, accept and keep residents even if their condition has worsened. As a result, many of the nearly 1 million people now in assisted-living facilities are more likely to be frail and sick than independent. And that has created a troubling mismatch between the care a resident needs and the care a facility and its staff can give." (CONSUMER REPORTS) This article presents the findings of the Consumer Reports investigation of assisted-living facilities.
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