How to Choose a Memory Care Community

As our family members get older, we do our best to help them continue a comfortable life. You might stop by your parents’ house once a week to bring their garbage bin to the road, or pass by your grandparents’ to bring in their mail. Regardless of the scenario, when your family asks for help, you want to be there. But what happens when you can’t provide the level of care they need? For most people, it means considering professional senior care.

Choosing the right care community for your loved one can be a long process. There are many different areas to compare between communities, and you want to make sure wherever you decide is a perfect fit. To be confident in your decision, you can do your best to find assisted living that offers all of the core amenities every modern establishment should have.

Caring for an aging parent is incredibly rewarding. It also can be stressful, expensive, and time-consuming. So we've put together a checklist to help you provide a high quality of life to your elderly parent.

Caring for an aging parent is incredibly rewarding. It also can be stressful, expensive, and time-consuming. So we've put together a checklist to help you provide a high quality of life to your elderly parent.

Acting as a caregiver for an older individual is a meaningful and thoughtful role. It's also a challenging one. While it's rewarding to help others with home care when they need it most, serving in a caregiving role can be stressful. We understand! Family caregivers are asked to become overnight experts in everything from senior medical needs to senior nutrition. The team at Weatherly Inn understands, and we have composed this piece to help new caregivers learn the ropes and practice excellent home care. 

Caring for an elderly loved one at home is both rewarding and challenging. So challenging that it can become physically and emotionally overwhelming. In the eldercare field, we call this caregiver burnout or caregiver stress — and it's a recognized phenomenon. There is no shame in it! 

Every senior is unique, and every family faces particular concerns during these unusual times. So there is no one-size-fits-all answer to answer the question if your senior loved one should be in a nursing home or similar health care facility.

“It comes with age,” people often say as they begin to notice that their vision, memory, and physical health are not as spry as they once were. And it is true, these abilities due often decline with age. 

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has affected everyone on a global scale. As COVID-19 cases build, Public health statements from health officials have flooded social media and news outlets for months now. From stay home orders and facemask mandates to schools and businesses going fully remote to limit the spread of the virus, every aspect of 'normal' life as we have known it has changed.