It’s not fun to think about and it’s even harder to want to admit when it happens, but most seniors will find themselves needing to move into an assisted living home at some point.
Assisted living may not fit the life many had planned, but there are senior living options that come pretty close to satisfying the kind of retirement many will enjoy. To get there, you do have to do the work of finding the senior living home that best suits your needs, which can often feel like an overwhelming task.
Retired or not, nobody wants to spend all their time visiting facilities in order to find the one that’s just right. That doesn’t mean you have to settle. There are shortcuts to identifying which ones provide the best experience.
One of those shortcuts is the SeniorAdvisor.com 2016 Best of Senior Living Awards. SeniorAdvisor.com is home to more than 95,000 ratings and reviews for senior living facilities and home care agencies – all of them provided either by seniors living in those homes or loved ones close to them. With that many ratings, the website can provide a pretty good snapshot of which providers in the country have the most satisfied residents.
The senior living and home care providers that have been named winners this year earned the award by having an average 4.5-star rating or higher from reviewers. That means the experience they provide is exceptional – only about 1 percent of the 100,000 homes on the website managed it.
Two of the award winners are here in Garland. When you’re sitting down to sift through all the options and figure out which ones are worth a visit, you should put these two at the top of the list:
Mayberry Gardens
Stoneybrook Memory Care of Garland
That’s just the first shortcut the website offers seniors and there are several others. You already have a pretty clear picture of what you want your life to look like and what kind of features and options are high priority for you. The SeniorAdvisor.com website makes it easy for visitors to search and browse all the available options based on the factors that are most important to them.
If you know you’re going to need memory care, you can hone in on the homes that offer it quickly and easily. If being close to your kids is essential, you can limit your options by location. Your priorities are what matters most in an assisted living search, so start off by clearly defining what they are, and then search to your heart’s content.
When you find the right senior care option for you or your loved one, you can return to the site for a quick review to pay it forward. The seniors starting their search next year will appreciate the tip.
Explore Garland award-winning senior care at https://www.senioradvisor.com/garland-tx/assisted-living