• Retirement living

  Below are resources to help you evaluate continuing care retirement living options. (Open as PDF files unless otherwise indicated.)

• How to select a continuing care retirement community

  Consumer guide to understanding financial performance and reporting in Continuing Care Retirement Communities - PDF
  This consumer guide provides an overview of some key concepts related to financial performance of CCRCs and some specific issues to contemplate when considering a move to into a CCRC.  

  InvestigAge
  This online resource brings together current news and research findings across a broad range of topics of interest senior living providers, professionals, researchers, investors, developers, and other stakeholders. Free registration is required to access the website for scholarly research and industry practice in the field of aging services.

  Searching for Security
  How to tell whether a continuing care community will be able to keep its financial promises. Article from Wall Street Journal Retirement Planning.

  Continuing Care Retirement Communities: Weighing the Risks
  Weighing the financial risks of CCRCs. Article from Wall Street Journal Personal Finance.

  Checking Out Continuing Care Communities
  What to look for when considering a continuing care retirement facility. Article from Wall Street Journal Real Estate.
  

  Retirement Homes for Less
  Negotiating the cost of retirement living. Article from Wall Street Journal Personal Finance.

  Beyond Long-Term Care
  Considering continuing-care retirement communities (CCRCs) as an alternative to long-term-care insurance. Article from Wall Street Journal Personal Finance.

  Pros, cons: Continuing care retirement community
  CCRCs offer a variety of living options — from independent living to assisted living to nursing care — all within one community. Article from USA Today Money.

  'The Last House I'm Gonna Have': The Continuing Care Option For Seniors
  WFAE 90.7in Charlotte, NC, interviewed Bradley Paulis, a member of CARF's Financial Advisory Panel, for a story on CCRCs.
  

• Assisted living

• Guide to Selecting Assisted Living
  When considering a move into an assisted living community, potential residents and their loved ones must weigh many factors. This guide provides some questions you can ask the community before making a decision.

  Assisted living facilities: Tips for choosing a facility and making the transition
  Making the decision to leave your home can be difficult for you and your family, but you can make the transition easier by taking time to find the right fit and being honest about your needs and concerns.

  How to choose an assisted-living facility
  If you have concerns about the ability of an aging parent or relative to live independently, you may want to investigate assisted living.

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  Find retirement living. Click for a list of CCRCs.

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• Elderly health/long-term care study

  An independent research study compared CARF-accredited nursing homes to those without CARF accreditation. It found that CARF-accredited nursing homes performed significantly better compared to U.S. national averages in six out of seven quality measures upon which the study was focused.
  
  Find out more about the study by visiting the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) summary webpage.   

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• Innovative communities: Breaking down barriers

  Improving care transitions and reducing rehospitalizations will not be easy, but the Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQA) believes it is possible and a worthy strategy to improve quality of care and quality of life for older people and people with disabilities. The time is right for such an initiative.

  LTQA supports person- and family-centered quality measurement and innovative best practices for long-term services.

  Read LTQA's report, Innovative communities: Breaking down barriers for the good of consumers and their family caregivers (PDF).  

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