3 Benefits of a Secure Assisted Living Facility

Is caring for your declining parent wearing down your other parent? It is such a difficult situation when a loved one develops a debilitating disease that requires round-the-clock monitoring and care. The challenges your family is facing can be daunting. The Meadows at Country Place, a leading senior care center in Sacramento, CA, wants to help people consider the benefits of moving your declining parent to an assisted living facility. There can be many benefits to this decision. Here are three:

  1. Relieve the burden. Your healthy parent can reclaim their health, peace of mind, and sense of self. It takes so much out of a person's life to be constantly on watch. For example, the simple lack of sleep for one night will upset the emotions, thinking, and energy. Extend that to months on end of sleep deprivation, and then add the stress of being responsible for all care, household chores, and financial matters: It all adds up to an overwhelming task. Transferring the caretaker duties to a quality assisted living home will free your healthy, yet challenged, parent from this crushing burden. 
  2. Keep your loved one safe. A loved one with Alzheimer's or other kinds of dementia may wander in their confusion. It can be almost impossible for one person to keep track of another all day and all night at home. It is also difficult to lock up everything dangerous. A secure assisted living facility, like The Meadows at Country Place, is a safe place to wander, with staff monitoring 24 hours a day and spacious, clutter-free living spaces.
  3. More hands make lighter work. At home, it is usually one caretaker helping with all of the activities of daily living which may require assistance, such as food prep, feeding, toileting, bathing, and dressing. At an assisted care facility a whole team of staff provide that assistance and more. At The Meadows at Country Place we give assistance supporting all activities of daily living, providing a quality of life befitting your loved one.

For more information on the care services offered by The Meadows at Country Place, call the staff today at (916) 706-3949. Learn more about their individualized care by visiting their website and liking them on Facebook.

Know the Facts Regarding Local Assisted Living Facilities

Idewelcome to our local assisted living facilityally, the time to research available local assisted living facilities is when your loved one is first diagnosed with a debilitating condition such as Alzheimer's, rather than wait until the need is critical. Unless you check out the options ahead of time, the stress of the situation that brought you to the decision that it is time to move, can become overwhelming. On the surface, it appears that there are so many facilities to choose from. It can be difficult to choose the right facility that will provide local assisted living for your loved one.

How does one get a handle on this seemingly daunting task? We offer these tips to help you gather the facts so that you can evaluate your assisted living choices:

Four Tips to Making a Local Assisted Living Choice

1. Take the Tour - the Quality of Care Matters.

Is the facility clean, in good repair, comfortable, easily maneuvered, cheerful and warm? Observe the people. Do the staff appear clean, attentive, compassionate and professional? Are the residents clean and groomed? Watch for interactions. Are residents treated kindly with dignity and respect? Basic considerations like safety, friendly and happy atmosphere, as well as quality of individual care are observable. They matter.

2. Find Out the Standard of Care.

Most conditions that bring one to an assisted living facility worsen over time and will require more care, not less, as time goes on. An assisted living facility will supply as much assistance as is needed to accomplish all activities of daily living, including: bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, toileting, incontinence, and transferring. It is important to encourage as much independence as much as possible, yet, as time goes on, your loved one's  needs will increase until they may need all of these done for them. Individual needs may also include other services, such as specialized diet, dementia care and a secure facility. Ask about these considerations and the standard of care.

3. Ask Questions - Get Clear on the Financials.

Choosing the long term care facility for your loved one is serious business. A most important consideration is transparency in pricing. Quoted base prices may seem comparably reasonable, yet may not reflect actual cost as complex or more advanced care is required. Get the pricing clear and in writing. Find out what medicare covers, what the insurance will cover, and what additional costs there may be.

4. Consider Personal Preference.

Beyond the basic considerations, the board and care facility you choose should be based on your loved one’s tastes and personality, not necessarily your own. Ideally, the most appropriate fit is a facility that offers all of the amenities, activities and assistance that suit your loved one, so that they can experience the quality of life afforded by being cared for in a place they feel comfortable enough to call home.

Serving the Greenhaven/Pocket districts in the Sacramento area, we are committed to honoring the highest standards of cleanliness and compassionate care. Our services include dementia care and assistance with daily living. Learn more by calling us (916) 706-3949. Make an appointment to visit and see for yourself what our quality comfort looks like.

Assisted Living Facility in Sacramento, California Shares Their Secret to Success

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in Greenhaven District of Sacramento

The Meadows at Country Place - 24 hour careThe Meadows at Country Place (TMACP) is a premier assisted living facility in the "Pocket" in Sacramento, Ca. TMACP has established itself as a trusted and highly personalized senior care facility. This is despite having only been in business for less than five years. What is the secret to their success? It's simple: they  have old world values such as honoring other human beings with love and respect, coupled with a hands on business approach.

Unlike many larger, corporate owned facilities in the area, the founder/owners of The Meadows at Country Place take a hands-on approach to operating their business. Rangi Giner and John Cimino built the physical facility from the ground up in 2010. They opened their doors to the public in 2011.

Since then, they’ve remained highly involved in the daily operations of the center. Rangi and John both live within the same neighborhood as the facility. So, they are on call 24/7 to assist clients as needed. They spend much quality time with residents. As a result, they have developed warmhearted relationships with the residents and their families.

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At The Meadows at Country Place, your loved ones will most likely develop trust in their caregivers right away. All employees, staff, volunteers, and stockholders have strong core values. Employees of all levels are assessed and screened to ensure that they are qualified, professional, kind, generous, and respectful of the elderly. Additionally, most of them have been serving the elderly as part of the senior care industry for many decades.

Experience Counts

The owner’s are steeped in a loving and compassionate attitude by years of experience in caring careers. John Cimino has had over 20 years of experience in the assisted living industry. Rangi Giner has a decade’s worth of experience helping the elderly and intellectually disabled. She has much previous experience both in long-term care facilities and in skilled nursing facilities. Before that, Rangi had 19 years of experience working as an emergency room nurse in the Philippines and Saudi Arabia.

The Meadows at Country Place has created a beautiful, unique and transformative community, from the bottom up. You are welcome to find out what that is like.