What is the Cost for Assisted Living?

Although assisted living costs less than nursing home care, it is still fairly expensive. Depending on the kind of assisted living facility and type of services an older person chooses, the price costs can range from less than $10,000 a year to more than $50,000 a year. across the U.S., monthly rates average $1,800 per month.(Please note costs in California exceed national averages)
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Irene Wechsler Scheduled to Appear on FOX News Los Angeles on Sunday, February 12, 2012
Irene Wechsler, an eldercare expert and the President of Elderink.org, is scheduled to speak with FOX News LA weekend anchor and investigative reporter, Phil Shuman regarding some of the issues surrounding elder care and senior insurance programs that have come under scrutiny since Consumer Watchdog filed a class-action lawsuit earlier this week.
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To: elderlink@elderlink.org

Irene –
Dear Elderlink,

Thank you so much for your help in finding a Board and Care facility for my ex-husband and Brenda’s Dad. I don’t know if Brenda had a chance to get back to you and, if not, I wanted to thank you for the list of facilities and let you know that we have chosen the facility in Santa Clarita. Sam was transferred there last night and is now under hospice care.

Your organization is certainly a blessing to all of us who find ourselves suddenly tossed into the circumstances to find a caring place for a loved one. I cannot express my gratitude enough for having made the search so much less confusing.

Gratefully Yours,
Diane Tracy

Dec 4, 2011
by Guest997715 Dec 4, 2011 business
Elderlink Senior Referral Service ,
Santa Monica, CA 90409
USA
I had to find a home for my dad fast and i live in another state, I was very confused and Elderlink was the best no hassles no cost. I recommend them they were great! Thanks, Elderlink, Todd Miles

Memory decline in normal aging

Normal aging is associated with a decline in various memory abilities in many cognitive tasks; the phenomenon is known as age-related memory impairment (AMI) or age-associated memory impairment (AAMI). The ability to encode new memories of events or facts and working memory shows decline in both cross-sectional and longitudinal studies.[3] Studies comparing the effects of aging on episodic memory, semantic memory, short-term memory and priming find that episodic memory is especially impaired in normal aging; some types of short-term memory are also impaired.[4] The deficits may be related to impairments seen in the ability to refresh recently processed information.[5] Source information is one type of episodic memory that suffers with old age; this kind of knowledge includes where and when the person learned the information. Knowing the source and context of information can be extremely important in daily decision-making, so this is one way in which memory decline can affect the lives of the elderly. Therefore, reliance on political stereotypes is one way to use their knowledge about the sources when making judgments, and the use of metacognitive knowledge gains importance.[6] This deficit may be related to declines in the ability to bind information together in memory during encoding and retrieve those associations at a later time.[7][8]
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