A Decision Guide to Help Loved Ones
Helping a loved one make good decisions about their future can be a daunting task – one for which you may not feel qualified. This Decision Guide is intended to help you analyze the major factors that impact a decision – financial security, ongoing healthcare, and overall safety and well-being. The objective is to arrive at a decision that allows your loved one to feel at home – and for you to have peace of mind.
- What about my parent’s financial security?
- What can I expect in the way of healthcare?
- Should I be concerned about my parent’s security and well-being?
- It’s important to me that my loved one feels at home.
- One of my biggest goals is to have peace of mind.
- I still have more questions.
What about my parent’s financial security?
There’s hardly any child of an aging parent who does not worry about their loved one’s long-term financial security. It’s a common concern. And with the unprecedented economic challenges of the past three years, those worries have doubled and tripled as savings have been depleted, retirement plans threatened and overall confidence badly shaken.
Today, for all seniors, financial security is a front-burner issue – one that demands extra time and attention and careful planning.
For many, the decision to move to a Lifespace Community is a money-saver, a move that makes the most of all available resources now and helps stretch those resources to ensure that future needs are met. Through our LifeCare program, almost all of our communities offer a continuum of care that allows residents to move from independent living to higher levels of care – assisted living, skilled nursing care – with little or no increase in monthly fee.
Few other retirement communities can make that claim which makes Lifespace Communities one of the best values you’ll find anywhere – a definite plus for long-term financial security.
What can I expect in the way of healthcare?
LifeCare: Health Care Planning
Lifespace Communities offer LifeCare, a comprehensive program available in only a few of the finest retirement communities. Widely recognized as the top tier of senior living, LifeCare takes the worry out of health care planning. With LifeCare, you get the level of care you require for as long as you need it – at about the same cost as the monthly service fee.
Benefits of LifeCare
With LifeCare comes the benefits of private quality healthcare, unlimited lifetime use, and estate preservation, all of which contribute to your financial security and peace of mind. And it could save you tens of thousands of dollars per year. Upfront, you pay an initial cost for living accommodations and agree to a monthly service fee for amenities and services. Then, no matter what happens your monthly service is still about the same. The care is unlimited, and your eligibility is endless.
We’re with You through the Continuum of Care
At Lifespace Communities, there’s a continuum of care that starts with independent living and progresses to on-site assisted living and to skilled nursing care. LifeCare takes you smoothly and efficiently through each level, if necessary, with gentle transitions and sensitivity to your needs.
Should I be concerned about my parent’s security and well-being?
If it’s ever happened to you, you know the near panic of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the safety and well-being of a parent who lives alone.
“She didn’t answer the phone when I called this afternoon. I hope she’s alright.” Then the long wait until morning when you can confirm – once again – that everything is OK.
When your parent lives in a Lifespace Community, those worries can disappear forever. You will always know your parent or loved one is close to friends and is constantly able to call a caregiver for assistance.
Most of all of our communities feature a 24-hour emergency call system, and professional health care providers are always nearby. Whether in the bright sun of the early morning of the darkness of midnight, your parent is always cared for. Help, if needed, is never far away. Sleep well.
It’s important to me that my loved one feels at home.
Home is a reflection of the people who live there. From the pictures on the walls to the furniture and lamps to those one-of-a-kind treasured mementos collected over a lifetime, home is personal. It’s for you and about you. You can be assured when your loved one moves into a Lifespace Community, they are home!
Their residence is stamped with their personality. Their furniture and accessories are all in place. Their personal touches are unmistakable. The memories of a lifetime shine in every room.
Some say it’s never easy to move from your existing home to someplace new. But you can be sure the staff and residents at a Lifespace Community will go the extra mile to make your parent or loved one feel at home quickly – in a safe, secure environment that is totally focused on your parent’s well-being and quality of life. Count on it.
One of my biggest goals is to have peace of mind.
We know there is simply no substitute for the peace of mind that comes with knowing your parent is happy and well-cared for. As our parents age, this personal contentment becomes harder to achieve as health issues and loneliness intrude and maintaining the normal activities of day-to-day life become more challenging.
You want to sleep well at night knowing your parent is doing the same – in a home they love, surrounded by friends they care about, in a lifestyle that makes them look forward to each new day.
At Lifespace Communities, we combine all the elements needed for a happy, satisfying life – friends, a nice residence, a continuum of care, a full-range of needed services, plenty of amenities, a host of activities and a secure environment. All this is designed to give you what you want most – peace of mind.
I Still Have More Questions
We’re ready to help you as you discuss future living options with your parent or loved one. We have lots of information and access to what may the best resource of all – people who have already made the decision and are very happy with the outcome. Use the form below to ask any questions you may have, or to simply contact us for more information.
