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What Is The Difference Between Assisted Living And Long Term Care? In My Mind Those Are 2 Separate Situations.
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I thought assisted living is NOT 24 hour care. Whereas long term care involves 24 hour care.

posted July 13, 2022
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Assisted Living is lower level of nursing and staff than LTC or Memory Care. The latter MUST have RNS, LPNS and a higher ratio of personnel per patient. Assisted living let's patient control their meds, LTC a nurse MUST dispense drugs. I hope this helps.

posted July 13, 2022
A myALZteam Member

Helps a lot. My husband can do some things for himself, but he likes to try to “elope” (as my daughter puts it).

posted July 13, 2022
A myALZteam Member

That helps a lot. Thanks Richard10. I didn’t know about the medication situation. That is something my husband would definitely need.

posted July 13, 2022

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