How to Stay Positive, Even When You Don’t Want to Consider Assisted Living

April 5, 2017 by ·
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Assisted Living in Spanish Fort AL: How to Stay Positive, Even When You Don’t Want to Consider Assisted Living

The changes to your physical capabilities have been gradually building. If you are in your 70s or 80s, living alone, you may be having great difficulty keeping up with the cleanliness of your house, preparing meals, and even doing laundry and other basic tasks throughout the day.

This can make it extremely frustrating for some people, and when you reach a certain age you may begin thinking about other living environments, including assisted living. However, to you this seems like a negative change in your life.

You may have various misconceptions about assisted living.

If you’re like a lot of people in the United States, you may associate assisted living with nursing home care. To you, maybe you never had any direct experience with it and simply assumed the two are one in the same.

However, that’s completely false. The two are completely different living environments and while nursing homes have received a great deal of negative attention to the years, and for good reason, they are usually understaffed, overworked, and don’t have the best track record for taking care of their patients.

Assisted living is an elderly residential environment. This is a community-based environment where you will be surrounded by peers your own age who share common interests. This is like living in an apartment community with like-minded individuals.

There will be staff members on hand to assist you with whatever tasks you have going on throughout the day. The staff members are in tune with their elderly residents and their needs to help ensure safety and comfort at all times.

When you don’t feel very positive about this, what can you do?

Learn as much as you can about it before solidifying those negative impressions.

When you choose this for your future, open yourself up to other residents.

It’s easy to close yourself off, keep your door closed, and be withdrawn, but that’s not going to create a comfortable environment for you. Keep your door open for an hour or two a day if you are in the room and that will invite people to say hi and get to know you.

Spend time in the dining facility or entertainment room.

The more time you spend being surrounded by people who may share some of those common interests, the more likely you’ll strike up conversations and make friends. Before you know it you will have a more positive attitude about assisted living because it is one of the best senior care options available.

If you or an aging loved one are considering Assisted Living near Spanish Fort, AL, contact Ashbury Manor Specialty Care and Assisted Living at 251-317-3017.

 

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About Cindy Johnson

Ashbury Manor’s Administrator since 2008, Cindy Johnson is a long-time expert in the assisted living field. Prior to her arrival at Ashbury Manor, Cindy managed acquisitions and crisis management for existing and new larger senior care project developments for eleven years. As regional manager for an Oregon-based assisted living management company, Cindy was directly responsible for operations for five 50-65 bed assisted living facilities. As manager during the transition to new ownership, Cindy reorganized internal operations and conducted leadership training for Executive Directors. As a result of her management and expertise, one of the company’s facilities (in Ocala, Florida) received a deficiency-free survey, resulting in the lifting of a moratorium on operation.

A nurse for 36 years, senior care has always been Cindy’s passion. Desiring to work more closely with residents, Cindy became a Category II Administrator in 2005. As Ashbury Manor’s Administrator, Cindy understands the complexities associated with dementia and cognitive impairment and she has fallen in love with seniors with dementia or cognitive impairment and their families.

Cindy is Treasurer of the local “Senior Coalition” chapter. She enjoys mentoring new candidates who want to become administrators.

As a 16-bed facility, with Cindy's training and experience, our residents and their families can be sure Ashbury Manor’s carefully selected staff provides the expertise of a larger facility while maintaining the individualized personal care of a small special needs home.
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