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5 Important Considerations When Choosing A Senior Living Facility

If you have made the decision to move to a prestigious and established senior living facility, or else are currently preparing for a close friend, family member or other loved one for the move, it can be somewhat bamboozling when it comes to choosing the right facility to suit individual needs, wants and desires. 

Here, for your information and to hopefully help you make your decision more confidently, are five of the most important considerations when choosing a senior living facility. 

  • Personalized Food Plans

Out of all the different residential options for older adults, senior living facilities provide and afford the highest levels of independence and are essentially living communities whereby residents live entirely individually but with help and support there as, when or if they require it. 

One of the most fantastic advantages of making the move to senior living facilities is the resident-centered food services that are available should you want to take advantage of them. However, if you have specific dietary requirements or are even somewhat of a ‘picky eater’ it is important to consider the dietary and nutrition provisions of all meals and foodstuffs provided.

  • Location & Amenities

Consider when you are booking a hotel for a vacation or even for a long weekend and think of how important the location of the site is and the amenities and even aesthetics are.

When making the exciting and obviously considerably more permanent move to a reputable and respected senior living facility, such as established Connecticut senior living, location is incredibly important. 

Being close to public transportation, restaurants, cafes, cinemas and theaters will mean you will be able to build a new community life in and around your new home. 

  • Activities & Events Programs

Another important consideration when choosing and reviewing senior living facilities is how exciting and extensive their provided activities and events program is. 

When reviewing their schedule, it is important not just to search for places that offer exclusively activities and hobby classes that you are already interested and involved in, but also one that regularly adds new and exciting trips and activities

  • Animals

If you are absolutely a self-confessed animal lover, another priority when choosing the right senior living facility for you is to check whether or not animals as pets are allowed and additionally, whether or not the specific facility you are interested in allows animal therapists onsite.

There is a wide plethora of benefits to animal therapy for people of any age, specifically aging adults, including an overall improvement in feelings of happiness, contentment and wellbeing, an increase in social interaction and a reason to engage in regular physical activity. 

  • Cost

Unfortunately, the cost of each prospective senior living facility is of utmost importance.

However, more than that, it is absolutely imperative to ascertain exactly what is included in the monthly, or indeed annual, fee and whether or not specific medical bills, excursions and activities and other elements such as specific foodstuffs and garden maintenance duties are incorporated.

5 Important Considerations When Choosing A Senior Living Facility

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