The Best Items Senior Can Bring to Assisted Living

December 7, 2023 by ·
Assisted Living Pascagoula AL

Assisted Living Pascagoula AL

There are limited things that aging seniors are allowed to bring with them to an assisted living community. Whether they have a private bedroom or a shared room, or even the equivalent to a small one-bedroom apartment with a bedroom, living room, and kitchen area, most seniors aren’t able to bring all of their possessions with them.

The longer you’ve lived in the same place, the more likely you have acquired a trove of possessions. Memories, mementos, and perhaps items you picked up on sale through the years that have just built-up in the basement or attic.

Most seniors will not be able to bring most of their furniture. They may be able to bring their bed, a nightstand, dresser, perhaps a couch or recliner if they have a living space, an entertainment center, a kitchen table and chairs, and so forth. They might not be able to bring along their grand 10-seat dining table, a pool table, a sectional sofa, massive dresser, or other items that are bulky and more suited to a two or three bedroom home, if not a larger house.

What Seniors Should Bring

That depends on the elder care facility. Each assisted living community is going to have certain regulations on what seniors are allowed to bring with them. Some places won’t allow pets while others do. Some may limit wall hangings and pictures or not even allow seniors to put up anything on the walls.

Find out what a specific assisted living community you or the senior in your life are interested in will allow. Then you have a starting point to determine what he or she can or will bring along with them to make sure it’s as comfortable as possible for them. However, most seniors will be allowed to bring along a certain item that can bring them comfort through the years. Even though a growing number of younger generations keep all their pictures and videos on their phone or laptops, aging seniors have photo albums, printed pictures, postcards, and much more that recount a life well lived.

These are valuable resources for aging men and women to bring along with them. If some seniors have boxes upon boxes of photo albums and memory keepsakes, it’s not going to be practical for them to bring all of that, but they don’t have to toss it in the trash. If loved ones are willing to take some of them in and store them safely, they should do so. Or they should find a climate controlled facility where they can place important items they want to hold onto for now.

Photo Albums and Pictures

Even if they have to get a new photo album and take select pictures from their wide collection and slip them into these, this can help them feel more connected with their loved ones on days when they miss their old home.

It also can stir up memories that help strengthen the mind, and that can even be valuable for those who are dealing with the earliest signs or symptoms of dementia, which include Alzheimer’s, or other memory related challenges where a memory care facility can help.

If you or an aging loved one are considering a move to Assisted Living in Pascagoula, 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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