Understanding Senior Housing Options

GentleRosebb­21

4 months ago

I am thinking about independent living because I feel its best when you have your mind and can make decisions for yourself just in case you can't in the future. Right now I am 52 years of age and can do just about anything I need to for myself. I would like to have it where my son can live with me when I find a retirement place and have a extra bedroom for him and he's willing to live with me. We get along very well and we are very much alike in some respects and I know it will work out because we live together now and we are doing just fine. I hope and pray to live a long life but one never knows when the Good Lord is going to call you home so I've prepared a Will, Funeral Arrangements, Burial Plans, and everything pretty much on what I want to be done in my passing. Not that I am looking to go anywhere anytime soon but being prepared is always the best policy I think and you have to talk about things because we will all have to go someday.

ERP

almost 2 years ago

I am nearly 81 and looking to the future. My husband is almost 83 and has Alzheimer's. He is in an Assisted Living facility where he is getting excellent care. I am living alone in the same house we have had for 47 years but I know, even with adjustments for the problems I already have; (I have two chair lifts: one going up to the second floor and one to the basement; a ramp in the garage; an alarm system and a Lifeline button in case I fall) eventually I will have to move. Keeping up a house this size is expensive and 3 of the 5 bedrooms are no longer needed tho they came in handy when everyone came to celebrate my 80th birthday! I need a "To-Do" list to begin the process of looking. I would like to stay on Long Island since I have good doctors, dentists, Hospitals etc. here that took me time and years to find. Since two of my Adult children live a distance away I would like a 2-bedroom, unless I am suddenly disabled and have to go into a nursing home, or hospital. My Mother lived to 93, but then I took care of her for her last 16 years. Can you make some suggestions as to where to start?