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When age has caught up with your loved ones, leaving their bodies weak and their minds distraught, how will you protect them? How will you take care of them? Who will take care of them? For a conservative family, an institutionalized care is probably out of the picture. For a very conservative family, the scenario mentioned in the previous sentence connotes abandonment. I understand their sentiments but I don’t agree with regard the abandoning issue. Each of us has our own limitations. When caring for an aged individual exceeds your capacity, what’ll you do? What will you choose? Nursing homes? Foster homes? Adult housing? Adult day care? The thought of taking care of an elderly is admiring (heroic even.) However, the process itself requires you to devote almost all your time solely to him especially when physical and mental condition exists.
I’ll be reiterating my question: When caring for an aged individual exceeds your capacity, what’ll you do? It is but proper to get help whether it’s in a form of adult foster care homes or institutionalized care. Between the two, the ideal would be the former. This brings me to the topic at hand---providing assisted living to the aged through adult foster care homes and other less restrictive types of adult care.
First stop, I’ll differentiate foster care homes from a nursing home or an institutionalized care. The former is intended to help them in their daily home adult activities like eating, bathing, laundry and medication intake. The latter is designed for the senior citizens who can no longer take care of themselves, bedridden individuals for example. Institutionalized care is sometimes coined restrictive care. This type of care may and will cost a lot as compared to other residential alternatives. Then again, the decision would highly depend on the needs and requirements of the senior citizen. If it’s continuous nursing, you go with the latter. If one wants to maximize their freedom and maintain family and community involvement, then it’s the foster homes for them. Note that adult foster care homes are not a substitute for nursing homes---remember this.
Having the option of settling for adult foster care homes, the elderly are presented with a familiar environment where the ambiance exudes warmth and where independence is certain. There are small and large group foster homes. For the small group, their capacity must not go beyond twelve adults while large group should have at least 13 but not exceed 20. Another would be the congregate facility, which has an approved capacity of more than 20. Some people prefer to retire in a community where there are extensive social contacts with their peers---who shares the same interest and probably of close age gap. People by nature, are social beings, ergo we yearn for social interactions. These interactions will bring a little more oomph to the lives of the residents. Bringing back or adding to quality of their beings.
Then there are the adult day care centers. This is beneficial for both the participants---the aged---and the caregivers. From time to time, caregivers need a break, too (even if it’s just for a couple of hours). Their recourse, adult day care centers. These centers provide the elders opportunity to mingle, equally stirring and addressing their physical and mental requirements. The distinction is seen in the duration. Majority of the adult foster care homes offers 24-hour services while the day care center—as the name entails, is open during the daytime.
These are only a few of the alternatives. Whatever you choose, be it in homes or centers, what’s important is that your loved ones are being cared for and their interests are promoted through various social interactions and health maintenance activities.

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