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When you cannot provide the care your loved one needs, you need to know you can entrust them to someone who can. Choosing an elderly care facility is an important and potentially stressful decision, since it will have an impact on your loved one’s quality of life. Use the guide below to find senior living facilities both you and your loved one will be happy with.

Guide to Selecting an Elderly Care Facility

What to Look For

There are three main things you’ll need to look at: the facilities themselves, the caregivers, and whether the services and billing meet your needs. The facilities should be clean, comfortable, and have security features such as safety bars and wheelchair ramps. The caregivers should be carefully vetted complete with background checks, continually trained as they work there, and friendly to the seniors.

elderly careThe nursing care community should provide all the services your loved one needs, such as transportation to doctor’s appointments and providing a higher level of medical care if it’s needed in the future. You’ll want to check whether they accept your insurance type, and they should provide a contract that will detail how they do their billing.

How to Do Research

You can conduct some initial online research by visiting the facility’s website. They may outline all the services and amenities they offer so you can get a feel for what it’s like to live there. Look them up on review sites to see what residents have to say.

If you like what you see online, call and schedule a tour of the retirement home. Prepare a list of questions so you can discuss specific needs, such as whether they’ll let your loved one bring their cat with them. Pay careful attention to the staff members you meet on the tour; they should be friendly and helpful in answering your questions. See whether the residents seem happy, and approach a few of them to discuss what they think about living there.

 

The team at Liberty Village Senior Community, an Abbington Community is dedicated to empowering residents to live independently while getting all the support they need to thrive. Their friendly and professional team is available 24/7 to provide senior care and have a facility that’s designed around enhancing quality of life. Their elderly care facility in Chillicothe, OH, offers housekeeping, laundry service, pharmacy, and community rooms. They also have other locations for your convenience: Abbington of Arlington, Abbington of Pickerington, Abbington of Powell, and Windsorwood Place of Coshocton. Contact them online or at (740) 773-4630 to discuss your loved one’s needs.

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