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How does assisted living care work?
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Assisted living is an apartment in a home-like setting with care available through the facility. When you move in, a nurse evaluates you and recommends a service plan. That care is covered under a separate contract, often in care packages.
Key points
- Less clinical than a nursing home.
- Help with bathing, dressing, eating and more.
- Care costs are separate from rent.
Lauren FinkFounding attorney, Everbright Legacy Law
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And then there are contracted care services that are available through the facility to help you with those activities of daily living. So activities of daily living, I’ll use that term a lot. But that’s things like feeding yourself, bathing, toileting, transferring, dressing, those different types of things. So with assisted living, they may have different care packages, where depending on what your care needs are, when you move into an assisted living setting, they will do an evaluation of you at the beginning, a nursing evaluation, to make recommendations as to what type of service plan you would need. And then what they do is cover those services under that separate contract.
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