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Downsizing, To Move or Not to Move? That is the Question
Aging Well | Last Active: Feb 13 12:35pm | Replies (529)Comment receiving replies
Congratulations! We're on the waitlist for a patio home/cottage at a facility that colocates cottages, apartments, assisted living, memory care, and ( a short distance away) skilled nursing facility. Your experience is exactly what we are hoping for.
Are you in a community that is regulated as a legal CCRC, where your up-front payment buys down the cost of future higher levels of care? We considered something like that, and rejected it for a variety of reasons. It was appealing as a way to manage future health care costs, though -- we were really tempted.
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Yes, we are in a CCRC. My sister-in-law fell and had a TBI. We had to deal with finding a place that would take her and the toll it took from us and our son, who lived nearby was a lot. We talked about it, and vowed to never put the kids, or each other through that with us. It's been almost 4 years now, so we have seen the process many times as people move from Independent Living to the Care Center, back to IL, and then to AL or Memory Care. This is absolutely the right choice for us. The buy-in was a difficult check to write, but it was the right thing for us.