For those with Alzheimer’s and dementia living at home becomes impossible and living with family is very difficult and can strain family members and relationships. The biggest concern for most families is how to pay for the extremely high costs of specialized memory care which can be $4000-8000 a month. Most family have not saved for such extremely high costs, especially for long durations of time. Even if there is a home with equity that could be sold, the profits will often be eaten up within months.
What is Memory care? It is a specialized facility or area of a facility that focuses on Alzheimer’s and dementia care. It is specially designed for the needs of Alzheimer’s patients; safe and secured areas to reduce risk of wandering, activities and caregivers specifically focused to help those with Alzheimer’s and dementia.
The great news is there are more affordable options! There are some homes out there that provide care to those with Alzheimer’s and dementia in a residential home, have the trained staff, activities, and licensed by the state to be safe and secure. Some of these home are still as expensive as a facility, but provide a home setting. There are good homes that are about $2000-2500 and some that will even take ALTC.
Blue Sky Assisted Living in the Phoenix area has been serving the valley for over 10 years and love to see how we can help family get through this difficult time and have a great quality of life. We don’t believe this is through high expense, but making the needed care as affordable as possible. We believe in aging in place, meaning when you move into our home we transition around the needs of the resident on not moving facilities and specialties as needs change. Many families come to us as they have had their family member in a facility, but now they are being moved to memory care and need to pay an extra $2000 a month over and beyond the already high fees.
Moving and change is so hard for the elderly especially those that have a hard time creating new memories. At Blue Sky Assisted Living in the Phoenix area is affordable and provides great quality care. The majority of our residents stay with us till the end and we become part of their family. To find out more please call to schedule a tour or an assessment (480) 447-3377.
