When mom’s decline in health demands more attention than you can give, an assisted living community becomes a practical solution. Assisted living offers specific safeguards to ease your fears for mom’s safety and well-being. Safeguards include health monitoring and physical support for mom’s changing independence. Unfortunately, by the time many adult children recognize a need to seek professional care, their aging loved ones would have encountered a series of ill-fated events.

WARNING SIGNS OF MOM’S DECLINING INDEPENDENCE

In this first part series on senior care options for aging parents, we focus on warning signs that lead to family talks on how to get the best care available for aging loved ones. Statistics from assisted living associations show that the typical resident of assisted living communities are elderly, widowed women over 85 years-of-age.

Early detection of mom’s declining health can prevent major injuries from occurring in the home