In-Home Care vs. Assisted Living

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For families in Atlanta assisted living at home – The Senior Care Professionals alternative to assisted living facilities for people who would prefer the familiar environment of their own home.

Families choose assisted living facilities for four primary reasons:

• Greater need for care – Families typically start looking into assisted living facilities when there is an incident, such as an accident, that indicates their elderly relative needs assistance with the tasks of daily living beyond which they may already be receiving.
• Desire for coordinated services in one place– Family members want the security of a professionally managed system with numerous resources at its disposal to ensure their elder’s needs never fall through the cracks .
• Desire to overcome social isolation – In assisted living facilities, all meals are eaten together in a common dining room, and other socializing opportunities may exist as well.
• Perception that assisted living facilities are less expensive then in-home care– Assisted living facilities can range anywhere from $2,000 to $6,000 a month, depending on the location and the size of the room. It’s much like a hotel: you can have a single room or a suite of rooms, and the quality of facilities varies greatly.

An assisted living facility can be the right choice for some people. Some additional factors for consideration:

• Your parent or elderly relative may not need the 24-hour level of attention an assisted living facility provides. He or she may need just a few hours a day, or something less than full time care.
• In assisted living facilities, nobody receives one-to-one attention. You need to assess exactly what level of care your family member really needs.
• The social aspect of a facility may seem appealing to you, but it may not agree with your elder’s personality and preference. Do they really want to take all their meals in a cafeteria with other people? Generally there is no kitchen in the private rooms of a facility. If your family member truly has a desire and history of being around a lot of people all the time, an assisted living facility may be ideal. Otherwise, know that there are other options for providing the right level of social interaction.
• Financially, the better facilities, those that are more sophisticated, luxurious, and include care giving, are higher cost than in-home care.

In-Home Assisted Living

For families in Atlanta, assisted living at home is an option with In-Home-Care. We can meet all the needs, and more, provided for at an assisted living facility at a comparable price and enable your parent to live in the comfort of his or her own home.

Our team of professional geratric case mansagers designs a customized care plan for your elder and is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care. Our in-home caregivers are trained and carefully matched to your family member. And our systems and whole-family approach to caregiving ensure that family members stay apprised and up to date on their elder’s care.

Finally, the In-Home-Care model is comparable in price to the better quality assisted living facilities. If one could have the right care, the right supervision and coordination for a comparable price, wouldn’t one choose to stay in the familiar environment of one’s own home?