Assisted Living: Aging in Place
July 28th, 2010
Helped Living: Aging in Place
For the nation’s growing number of elderly, helped living facilities have become well loved alternatives to nursing homes. Most people go into helped living when they need just a small care, or simply don’t want to manage a house. But then people age, they get more frail, they develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Ruth Elroy, 87, is a resident at an helped living apartment facility in Phoenix, Arizona. Her daughter, Cindy Maracay, says helped living allows her mother to live with a degree of comfort she could not find in a nursing home. “It’s dignity. It’s independence. It’s freedom to shape your own lifestyle. That’s what helped living is supposed to be about. It’s not a nursing home,” she says.
Cindy agonizes over how to break the news to her mother that she’s being evicted. Ruth has Alzheimer’s disease, and the facility’s administration recently informed Cindy, Ruth‘s only child, that the elderly woman’s medical needs “exceeds the level of care we can provide as an helped living community.”
“This is a nightmare,” Cindy says. “This can’t be happening to my mother in Phoenix, Arizona.”
Cindy was faced with a tough choice, until recently when she found out about helped living homes, an arrangement where helped living is provided in a residential home like environment for elderly who need care from the early stages also allows for the resident to age in place as their level of care increases. Helped living homes in Arizona are state licensed and regulated, from five or ten residents offering help for elderly in all levels of care.
Much like nursing homes, helped living homes provide equivalent levels of care, prices are usually at half the cost, yet residents in helped living homes have the freedom and independence they want to choose in the comfort of a residential house.
Helped living homes also have a high staff to resident ratio which allows for a more individualized level of care per resident. Meals are home cooked, many helped living homes offer a variety of daily activities and exercises and even weekly.
Cindy found out about North Valley Helped Living – an helped living home in Phoenix, Arizona from a friend who also had their mother cared for there and were extremely pleased with the services she received. Cindy enjoys peace of mind knowing her mother Ruth will now be able to age in place as her level of care will change.
North Valley Helped Living is licensed for ten residents in the State of Arizona and has been providing quality helped living since 1993 in the Phoenix valley and have since established a fantastic reputation in the community.
Are you looking for an Helped Living Home in Phoenix, Arizona? Desert Comfort Helped Living is their second residence they recently opened which has openings for private rooms. Visit www.desertcomfortaz.com to view photos or contact them for information on the care they offer.
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