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Lead Story · OCT 21

Small vs. Big Assisted Living: Why Intimate Settings Support Much Better ADLs

Choosing an assisted living community is hardly ever just a housing decision. For most households, it is a turning point in a loved one's every day life, particularly around the most individual regimens: getting dressed, bathing, handling medications, and simply receiving from bed to chair without a fall. Those Activities of Daily Living, or ADLs, are precisely where small, intimate assisted living settings typically outperform large, campus-style communities. I have act

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Choosing an assisted living community is hardly ever just a housing decision. For most households, it is a turning point in a loved one's every day life, particularly around the most individual regimens: getting dressed, bathing, handling medications, and simply receiving from bed to chair without a fall. Those Activities of Daily Living, or ADLs, are precisely where small, intimate assisted living settings typically outperform large, campus-style communities. I have act

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Analysis · SEP 23

How Intimate Senior Care Homes Transform Dementia Assistance

Walk into a normal institutional facility and you typically feel it within seconds: the scale, the sound, the long passage odor of disinfectant. Then walk into a well run intimate senior care home and the contrast is nearly disconcerting. You might pass a small front garden with herbs, hear one staff member humming while assisting a resident butter toast, see a pot of soup simmering in an open cooking area. Exact same broad category on paper, very different lived experience

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