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Reputation vs. Convenience: Choosing the Best Senior Living Community
When looking for the best senior living community, be sure your criteria is about more than convenience. Learn more about what really matters.
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Transition to Memory Care: 6 Tips to Ease Your Parent’s Move
The transition to memory care is an adjustment for everyone involved. There are ways to help ease the transition so that your parent can begin to take advantage of the exceptional resources, support, and attention that will help them achieve the highest possible level of independence. Helen Crunk, Regional Healthcare Specialist of Heritage Communities, has...
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Tips for Having the Senior Living Conversation with Your Parents
It’s a moment many family caregivers eventually face: having the conversation with parents about moving to assisted living or memory care.
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When Assisted Living Is Not the Right Choice for Someone with Memory Issues
When someone you love begins to show signs of memory loss, you want to do whatever you can to make their days easier and less frustrating. It can be tempting to think that maybe all they need is an occasional helping hand, such as they’d receive in assisted living. However, there are many reasons why...
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Senior Living Options: When Your Spouse Needs Daily Assistance but You Don’t
Senior living options are necessary when you are doing your best to care for a spouse who really needs 24-hour attention or at least more assistance than you can provide. What seemed doable has now become a heavier burden than you can handle. Yet if your spouse moves to assisted living or memory care you...
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The Memory Care Decision: Dealing With the Guilt
The memory care decision; few things are harder than struggling with the decision of moving a loved one into a senior living memory care program. Often times the associated guilt comes from fear of the unknown and dreading the reactions of others.
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Questions from a loved one with dementia or Alzheimer’s can be difficult, especially when they ask questions that have painful answers. At Heritage Communities, we understand, and we have some suggestions to help you and your family communicate with your loved one with understanding, patience, and compassion. Memory Care Questions: Keeping the Goal in Mind...
Read ArticleAdjusting to Life in Memory Care: How Long Does It Take?
Making the decision to move a loved one into memory care brings with it a range of emotions for all involved. Is it the right time, have you selected the right community, will your loved one be angry with you, how do you help them adjust… so much to hold in your heart and your...
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Sneak Peek: How Senior Living Residents Spend Their Day
Variety is the spice of life…at least it is for senior living residents! From art classes to walking clubs to outdoor barbecues to lifelong learning to popsicles on the patio, today’s older adults can find much-appreciated freedom of choice in every day. But what is a “typical” day in senior living really like? Do you...
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Aging With Grace: Socializing Benefits for Seniors
Author Paul Coelho said, “Friendship isn’t a big thing—it’s a million little things.” That’s certainly true when you consider the countless socializing benefits residents of senior living communities enjoy every day. Spending time with others is a major key to wellness and longevity. At Heritage, we recognize how important it is for older adults to...
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