The Right Place to Live

Essential questions and answers to help you make the appropriate choice

What Is Assisted Living?

Assisted living residences, such as The Farmington Hills Inn, combine personal attention and health care monitoring with lifestyle features that enable each of their residents to maintain an individual level of independence. These residences provide assistance with daily needs, meals, laundry and housekeeping services, and transportation. They also offer opportunities for socializing, recreation, entertainment, and special activities.

Are There Different Levels of Assisted Living?

Yes! Some are licensed, others are not. Those which are licensed are accountable for the quality and quantity of services they provide. Moreover, a licensed assisted living residence can include all personal services to their residents in their basic rates. Unlicensed facilities offer many daily personal services as "optional," meaning that there are costs for these services, over and above their basic rates, every time they are provided. Typically included among these are: medical reminders, help with grooming and dressing, escorting to dining rooms, administering eye drops and nasal sprays, even morning and night checks on the well-being of residents.

The Farmington Hills Inn is fully licensed by the State of Michigan and includes all of its services to residents in its basic rates.

What Other Alternatives Can Families Consider and What Are the Differences between These Categories?

The range of options includes senior apartment communities, nursing homes, adult foster care facilities, and retirement communities. The distinctions are based on the needs each is designed to meet. Compare the following descriptions with your family's specific considerations:

• Senior Apartment Communities: Residents live independently and are responsible for all of their own personal care and routine daily tasks, including taking medications and arranging for their own health care. Many provide laundry facilities, access to senior meal services, and local transportation.
• Nursing Homes: Residents are dependent upon either skilled care or sub-acute care. "Skilled care" requires the services of a registered nurse, on a regular basis, for treatments and procedures. It also includes services such as physical and respiratory therapy. "Sub-acute care" is comprehensive inpatient care designed for persons who have a had a serious illness, an injury, or worsening of a disease process, and require frequent (daily to weekly) patient assessment and review.
• Adult Foster Care: This category is for persons who are unable to live independently and require close personal supervision and protection, but who do not require nursing care.
• Retirement Communities: These are designed for independent senior adults who do not require any assistance.

  With These Definitions in Mind, How Can I Be Sure That Assisted Living at The Farmington Hills Inn Is the Right Choice for My Elderly Family Member?

  You can be sure of this if one or more of the following descriptions is applicable: He or she doesn't want or need a nursing home environment; shouldn't be living alone and lonely; has short-term memory problems (for example, forgets important medications); can't prepare meals and/or doesn't eat properly; needs help dressing, bathing, and grooming; requires transportation to appointments; wants the dignity and comfort of living within a secure, supervised residential setting.

The Farmington Hills Inn

Licensed superior quality assisted living
for the elderly, since 1980