They charge privately for their services. Look through your local yellow pages for listings of assisted living facilities. Take the marketing tours of prospective assisted living facilities. Talk to staff and residents alike, asking about staffing levels, staff credentials and qualifications, meals, employee drug screening and employee background checks. Some CCRCs require seniors to pay a one-time community fee if the senior is entering at the assisted living or nursing home level.
Fees are sometimes one to two months' rent.
Make sure you know what type of reciprocal agreement a CCRC has with other CCRCs should the assisted living wing be full at the time a senior wishes to make the transition from independent living to assisted living. Medicare does not cover assisted living. Inc. How things get done. Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eHow Terms of Use and Privacy .