Aunt moves to assisted living home

My 89-year old auntie broke her hip last winter while walking on a slippery pedestrian path. She has recovered very well, but after all, she is 89 years old already. Before the accident she could manage her daily routines quite well, and there was a home aid coming once a week. But now after the accident she has had to use a rollator as a moving aid, and the daily cooking, cleaning and laundry isn't so easy for anymore.

So she decided that it was time to move to a senior home, or rather to a kind of assisted living home. She got an apartment from this kind of community just last month and is planning the moving. This will be a quite enormous task to carry out since she has lived in her home now for some 35 years. She will take some things with her to the assisted living home, but sure she is not able to take it all, since the flat is a bit smaller. Basic kitchen stuff, clothes and some furniture will be moved to the new apartment but for the rest of the stuff we need to figure out something.

In the assisted living home she will get a meal thrice a day in a common dining area. She will have a kitchen as well, but since the accident she hasn't been interested in cooking that much. There will be daily help for cleaning and cloth management and if she needs to go somewhere, the transportation is provided. Every flat features a nurse call system and help is also available through phone around the clock. I think it was a good decision for her to acquire a home from this kind of assisted living community. There will be also lot of social interaction and activities, which she sure enjoys. I doubt she would have been so happy in some senior care home.

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