The cost of individual care for an elderly loved one at home (known as home care) continues to rise, but additional options are available when home care is no longer affordable. Home care is often preferred, as a loved one can stay in the comfort of their own home while receiving part-time or full-time personalized care. The unfortunate reality is that rising hourly rates, along with the need to pay rent, mortgage, or property taxes on a home, make it challenging to sustain long term as a family member’s activities of daily living require more assistance or their savings begin to decline.
From our experience, there may come a point when a family decides to transition their loved one out of their home and into an assisted living facility. A care home is a residential assisted living facility that specializes in caring for a small number of seniors in a personal, home-like setting. Care homes are sometimes referred to as residential care homes, board and care homes, or residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFE). Unlike larger care facilities, such as assisted living facilities, care homes typically have a capacity of up to 6 residents and consist of larger single-family homes situated in residential neighbourhoods.
Care homes provide housing, home-prepared meals, medication management, companionship, social interaction, and assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), which may include bathing, grooming, getting dressed, and eating. Many of the services offered are like those of larger care facilities, but care homes can offer more personalized care in an intimate environment with higher staff-to-resident ratios.
The wonderful thing about care homes is that the environment allows residents to “age in place.” Someone can become a resident at a care home at a time when they only need minimal assistance and can stay there as they age and require additional assistance, all the way through to the end of life. This eliminates the physical and psychological stress of moving to other facilities as health conditions change. A loved one can make a care home their new home and be cared for by a small group of staff that will become their second family, allowing them to enjoy the rest of their life in the comfort of a home, rather than a medical facility.
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