Assisted Living vs Nursing Homes | Understand the difference 

Sometimes you have to put mom or dad in a facility. They get 24/7 care but I strongly recommend that you visit frequently at different times, on all shifts, a few timesa week. Be their advocate and let it be known that they have someone who cares.

I've worked at a nursing home in the past and I now work at a senior living facility. I've been a CNA PCA RA and now I am a Med Tech. Well I can respectfully assure you that this is a very expensive business to be in. As much as they charge residents to live there I can say they could pay their employees better. Alot of things could be better. I thank God for good people that work in this business. We witness things people rarely see and I'd love to get the chance to speak on it 🙏

I personally work in a memory care and unfortunately they take on way to many people who need more medical care and what we can provide, sad thing is , it's all about profit :( not whats best for them .

This is BIG BUSINESS! They charge a bundle, and pay their staff low so there’s always a turn-over. Every thing is prorated; laundry, cleaning, showering, etc. They don’t take very good care of residents.

I appreciate this video. You answered several of my questions.

There are people that care in both type of systems, you only hear about the bad. There are kind caring people that do work in these places ,and we become part of their lives and sometimes,we are the only ones that show kindness because some families don't visit they drop them off and that is it. There are other families that visit all the time and are caring. Care workers do not get paid that much believe me! We get abused also and nothing is ever done about it ,until it is a higher up person in the chain of command then heaven and earth is moved. We still show up day after day to do the work families chose not to do or can't do.

My father needs more care than nursing homes in Australia can provide We tried several He keeps ending up in emergency within a week. He's 94yo because we care for him at home.

Watch the hidden videos of the horrific cases of elder abuse that happen in facilities before placing a loved one.

Well now you have very very total care patients in Assisted and Independent living all over the U. S!

This really helped me distinguish the two. Great video

I'm writing this comment super late, but maybe you or anyone reading this can help me figure this out. I used to live in California and was an able bodied woman with Spina bifida. I moved to Oklahoma and had surgery which caused paralysis from the waist down. I was forced to enter into a skilled nursing facility (nursing home) because my family are unable to care for me. I'm on Medicaid and am not privy to a lot of benefits because of my age (41) and because I did not work enough credits. I have been trying to get back to California to my friends and adopted family. My problem is nobody can or will take me in and I may need to be in another facility (I need help with some adls). I have asked for help in finding a new place near LA but no one here in OK knows what to do. Every facility I have tried (about 25) is unwilling to take me based on my age or because I have Oklahoma Medicaid and will not qualify for Medi-Cal until I get there. I just wanna go home. If anyone knows an administrator of a long term care facility, please let them know my story. Help me to get home.

Unfortunately these words are confused and it is often impossible to know what people are referring to. Sometimes I think "assisted living" is a way of avoiding saying "nursing home"

Can a residential assistant living home be non-medical?

Reminder: each service ie showed, med passes etc or separate from the rent!

Is CNA works in a assisting livings?

can you pay 30 percent of your rent

Home sweet home. Instead

Do these people work the floor that do all this talking, No they don't until you work the floor in both the outside world has no clue.

I raised in this business and they were terrible then and today HORRIFIC; I cannot say that strongly enough!!!!!!!!!!

Don't put anyone you love in a nursing home or assisted living facility.