California Assisted Living Update

I just finished uploading all the assisted living facilities for Arizona and am currently working on North Carolina. Arizona was a big surprise with almost 2000 assisted living facilities. I think that California has almost 6000 facilities but currently I only have around 400. One I get all the California facilities including Los Angeles assisted living facilities entered, I will have over 12,000 facilities in the directory. Not Bad.
Most of the state governments have been good to work with. By the end of August, I must have every assisted living and Alzheimer's facility in Georgia. I am going home to meet with dad's facility manager and nurse so see if they can give him additional assistance. His mental condition seems to be changing rapidly as he reverts into a child. That is why I will need to have a complete list of dementia care facilities ready when the assisted living facility will no longer accept him. We are very thankful that he is happy in his dementia. So many seniors get angry, frustrated and mean. My dad is mostly sweet with an occasional bit of angry confusion. The nurses raided his apartment this week and took his bottle of vodka. The alcohol that destroyed his frontal lobe should be avoided but my dad's doctor (Dr. Tucker) is an idiot. He told my dad that it was OK for him to drink so he won't listen to anyone else. It really stinks when your parent doctor is actually doing damage. Anyways, this should be a big month for my dad and for the site so stay tuned.

Alzheimer's Disease And Baby Boomers

I have recently been studying Alzheimer's Disease as part of the site development. Currently 1 in 10 seniors (over the age of 65) has some level of Alzheimer's. This week I saw a documentary on the subject on PBS that said once we get in the middle of the baby boomers retirement, that Alzheimer's will be an epidemic. With 78 million baby boomers, that will be almost 8 million Alzheimer's patients in the US. Since Alzheimer's slowly takes away memory, ability to recognize family and friends, speech and even the ability to swallow, there will be a huge drain on society and on the country. The special estimated that the cost for caring for these seniors could be as a staging drain on the economy and a huge drain on the sandwich generation. In my case dad has a frontal lobe dementia which is equally bad. He does have some memory lose but he is losing his judgment first. He can't tell right from wrong so he makes a lot of bad decisions. We are still learning about how to treat the illness since we are awaiting news from the doctors.

Colorado Assisted Living

Colorado is the home to my family so my wife and I have spent a lot of time looking at assisted living and independent living facilities in the area. In our neighborhood of Louisville (right next to Boulder), there is a good variety of facilities including several upscale ones. To our surprise we found that some independent living facilities like Balfour are incredibly nice and incredibly expensive. The Balfour facility in Louisville has private cottages that start at $6300 per month. That does include 20 meals and food is fantastic but it makes my retirement fund look really small. There are also facilities in Boulder like Fraser Meadows that require deposits of over $100,000 non-refundable just to get into the facility. So if you want to retire and live like a king or queen in a Colorado assisted living facility, you better have a big retirement account.
In general, this means that you need to have about 2 million dollars in the bank when you retire if you want the best coverage during your retirement age.