California Trends For Seniors

California is the leading edge of the United States. With about 10% of the seniors in the country living in California, it is the state to look for future trends in assisted living and retirement living. California is driving the way for a better environment by forcing or working around our corrupt federal government by forcing better air quality down the throats of the lazy US automaker and hopefully they can do more to make life better in other areas. With the recent decline in the real estate market parts of California are becoming more affordable for seniors and that is a good thing. My hope is that California can address the lack of federal regulation over health care. If there is any thing that scares me, it is the future of health care. With the current trends, it looks some health care companies will only cover healthy people and only cover what they want to pay for. It is getting to be embarrassing to live in a country that does take care of it's seniors. With the 78 million baby boomers getting ready to tax our senior services, we are headed for a melt down.
OK, my rant is over. I feel a little better. So I am proud to release a new set of California assisted living facilities. Although I do not have all the facilities, this is a good update to the resources to California seniors. After researching Alzheimer's recently, I am planning on adding all the California memory care centers too. Alhtough my dad actually has frontal lobe dementia, our dealings with the doctors make is evident that his future is similar to that of an Alzheimer's patient. It is getting to the point where he will agree to do something and then almost immediately forget that he agreed if is not part of his normal operations.
Back to California, this is one of the only state that currently has a city released. Eventually the site plan is to release the top 200 or so cities that have a big senior population to support a separate page.
Thanks to everyone who has help grow assisted senior living and we hope it helps.

Assisted Living

This is the first post on the subject of helping family with assisted living and other senior transitions. My wife and I each have one living parent that is making the transition from living at home to living somewhere where they can get extra help. Hull ( my dad) moved into assisted living last year after a stroke. Mable is slowly losing her memory so she will need someone to help her in the next few years. We have made several plans for Mable but she soon forgets that we made the plan so they never happen. We have had to make several different changes to support our family and we are part of the sandwich generation ( rising kids at the same time we are caring for our parents). Add this to the general poor economic conditions and we are a very busy family. We hope that our experience can be shared with others and we hope that others have a smoother transition with their parents.