Parents need different levels of care

Ammogirl

Does anyone have experience with parents needing different levels of care? Mom needs MC and SD needs assisted living but I’d like to keep them together.

Cynbar

There are facilities in my area that offer both kinds of care in the same building or complex, and coordinate regular visits from the person in assisted living to the memory care unit. Have you looked around for one of those? I haven't had experience with that myself but I know there have been posts on the same subject. Hopefully some of those posters will chime in now that I have bumped this up.

ladyzetta

When my DH was in MC there was also a AL facility connected. There was a man in the MC facility and his wife was in the AL facility. She spent most of the day with her DH in the MC section. She would come in and have meals with him and spend a lot of the day in his room. She was able to come and go he was not. What I saw was working out real good. Last I heard she was going to move in the MC section as soon as a room for 2 became available. She was on the boarder of needing more care.

David J

Sort of ancient experience, but my grandmother had early onset dementia and my grandfather was caring for her at home. My mother eventually had to intervene and placed her mother in SN and her father in Independent living in the same facility.  There was no MC at that time (1960s) My grandfather was able to visit and have meals with her.