Housing
Housing choices can be overwhelming if you wait
“Move by choice rather than by crisis.”
It used to be that the choice of where you wanted to age was pretty simple. You could choose to remain at home, move in with a family member or go to a nursing home. Aging, if it ever was simple, isn’t any more.Baby Boomers and the growing care gap
Choosing housing that allows you to remain independent
A moving story: finding housing that fits
When you first moved out of your parents’ home you may have lived in an apartment or lived with roommates. The point is, wherever you lived you didn’t live in the house you lived in when you eventually got married and if you are like most Americans, that wasn’t the house that you lived in when you began to have a family.
How to reduce your housing expenses
Families work together to solve special needs housing problems
Senior housing options
Tools for choosing a nursing home
In 2010, the Seattle Times published a report that gets mentioned on this site, in the Aging Options Resource Guide and by Rajiv Nagaich fairly often. That report, “Seniors for Sale,” concerned the treatment that elderly individuals received in Seattle/Tacoma area Adult Family Homes. The conclusion of that report was that individuals needed to do … Read more
California AGs office looks to pursue criminal charges against nursing homes
Every year an estimated 2.1 million older Americans are reported as victims of abuse and neglect. Experts estimate that for every case reported, five go unreported. About 4 percent of the abuse occurs in nursing homes according to the American Psychological Association. This seems like a small number of cases but consider this: CBS News reported in 2001 that one out of four nursing homes is cited for causing death or serious injury to a resident each year.
