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What matters most when choosing a facility?

Quick answer · 0:51 · From Life Care Planning: Protecting, Finding, and Paying for Care · Recorded Nov 20, 2025

Short answer

Quality of care. With so many people turning 65 and too few long-term care workers, a beautiful new building does not help much if it is short staffed. Ask about staffing, not only amenities.

Key points

  • Staffing is the biggest hurdle.
  • Look past the building.
  • Ask how care is delivered day to day.

Lauren FinkFounding attorney, Everbright Legacy Law

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And really, I would say the biggest hurdle that we have with long-term care facilities is that there are so many individuals right now who are turning 65 every year, and there are only so many people that are working in long-term care. So we can find often that we go to a facility, and it’s a beautiful, brand-new assisted living facility. Everything looks great, but there aren’t enough workers in that facility. So the biggest piece of evaluating a long-term care facility is the quality of care that you’re going to receive. You can have a beautiful place to live, but if there’s no one there to help you, that’s going to be the biggest cross to bear, to deal with.

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