When your parents are considering moving for additional care needs, you have many choices of licensed facilities1: Assisted Living, Residential Care, Adult Care Homes, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities. (This post is a continuation of Caring for Aging Parents-Oregon Options) The information below is for the Portland, Oregon area. Licensing may be similar in Vancouver and SW Washington, through other agencies.… Read the rest
Chef and dishwasher. Alternative school. Printer, publisher. Operated large presses and guillotine paper cutter and didn’t lose any fingers. Film stripper: I loved my boss and looked forward to Mondays–a coworker used to tell her husband’s friends that our boss was a male stripper! Black belt in karate. Aikido and Ki training for mind-body coordination.
Then back to college:Speech Communications and Physics majors, to keep the left and right hemispheres of my brain balanced.… Read the rest
You are lucky to be in Oregon. Oregon leads the nation in alternatives to nursing homes. If you live in the Portland area, you have a lot of choices for aging parents. Five options are listed below. An additional blog post will discuss other facilities and Rosi’s experiences with her Mom. Links are provided to additional information from the State of Oregon (in blue), and private agencies (in green).… Read the rest
