Ways to Help Your Aging Loved One Stay Happy, Healthy and Active As we age, it often becomes difficult to stay active, both physically and socially. But it’s essential. Engaging in different activities is essential to help elderly loved ones meet their physical, mental and social needs. While assisted living facilities like Palm Cottages [...]
Understanding Senior Housing Options Assisted Living vs. Senior Apartments vs. Memory Care vs. Nursing Homes Nothing about moving isn’t difficult or confusing. And it doesn’t get easier with age. If you’re helping an elderly loved one look for where they’ll spend the next several years of their life and call home, you may [...]
At first glance, an assisted living facility and a nursing home seem the same. You may even use them interchangeably, as synonyms. Both are residential care facilities focused on providing help to elders. But what makes them so different? An assisted living facility is focused on caring for seniors, aiding them in their daily [...]
The National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) reveals over 835,000 Americans reside in assisted living facilities today. Assisted living is an ideal option for older persons who need help with daily activities such as medication management, keeping house, cooking, going to the bathroom, and keeping appointments. These facilities provide the safety and security of [...]
Putting a loved one into an assisted living facility can be a very difficult decision. Oftentimes, the events leading up to the decision can be accompanied by tremendous difficulty, stress, anxiety, and other hardships that are unique to the individual, their family, friends, and support system. In many ways, it may seem that in doing [...]
What's the Difference Between An Assisted Living Facility and a Retirement Home? What's the Difference Between An Assisted Living Facility and a Retirement Home? While the two terms are often used interchangeably, there's a big difference between assisted living facilities and retirement homes. Here at Palm Cottages, we can understand the confusion. They both [...]
Extended Congregate Care License An assisted living facility (ALF) is a group residential establishment designed to provide personal care services in the “least restrictive and most home-like environment” that can be safely allowed. These personal services include activities of daily living and the self-administration of medication and are provided with the goal of allowing [...]
You or your loved one has decided it’s time to research or even move to an assisted living community. You or another family member may have come to visit Mom or Dad for the holiday and noticed a change. Perhaps they seem a bit sad, they have lost some weight, they are not taking [...]
It’s no surprise our Mother’s Day event shared a similar theme with many of the other events we facilitate here at Palm Cottages. As usual, we laughed, we dined, and we celebrated quality time spent together. Our in-house chefs had a great time preparing delicious meals for all our resident mothers, and their families who [...]
Palm Cottages gets personal. When it comes to your loved one, we love to get all the background information that we can. This allows us to create a custom care plan that tends to all of our residents' needs. Whether it's a specific medicine routine, or just their favorite hobbies, be sure to inform us [...]
