In an effort to help explain the differences between assisted living and nursing homes, I have prepared the following article. I hope this helps you to better understand the purpose of assisted living.
What Is Assisted Living?
Assisted living communities are for people needing assistance with Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) but wishing to live as independently as possible for as long as possible. Assisted living exists to bridge the gap between independent living and nursing homes. Assisted living facilities offer help with ADLs such as eating, bathing, dressing, laundry, housekeeping, and assistance with medications.
The Paragon of Madisonville as well as most assisted living communities creates a service plan or functional needs assessment (FNA) for each individual resident upon move-in. The FNA details the personalized services required or the assistance requested by the resident. We update this plan quarterly to assure that our residents receive the appropriate care as his or her condition changes.
How Does an Assisted Living Community Differ from a Nursing Home?
Quite simply, nursing homes are designed to care for very frail & very sick people that are not able to care for themselves and have numerous health care requirements that an assisted living communities cannot provide..
In writing this article, I began to recall why many of our resident's moved to The Paragon of Madisonville. Quite simply, The Paragon of Madisonville is a worry-free community. Our residents are free of all those household worries such as cooking, cleaning, maintenance of a home and upkeep of the grounds. We provide three meals daily and weekly housekeeping service. We even have the added convenience of providing scheduled transportation and stock personal care items in a general store.
Our resident’s enjoy going shopping, having lunch outside The Paragon, attending functions at the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts, program and plays at the Badgett Playhouse in Grande Rivers and many more wonderful opportunities. As one of our resident’s said, “living at The Paragon is like being on a cruise without the water!”
We at The Paragon of Madisonville strive very hard to help our resident and family members feel satisfied and as comfortable as possible in their surroundings
If you know someone that is interested in The Paragon, please invite them to see our lovely community for themselves and have lunch with us. I think that they will be pleasantly surprised!
Wishing all the father’s reading our newsletter a very Happy Father’s Day!
God Bless you,
Nancy, Community Director
