Residential Care Homes

COMPARING RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES

A residential care home is set in a personal, family-style, single family residential home. Residential Care homes typically have less than 10 residents. Assisted Living Facilities tend to be much larger and cater for far many residents. Coastal Care Homes believes that a patient feels far more at home in a residential care home then in a large, hotel-style facility.

Coastal Care Homes believes that larger Assisted Living Facilities sell themselves on a belief that the patient's care needs will not increase or the patient's health will not deteriorate. Families often think seniors will really enjoy the "vacation style" living on offer at these types of facilities, including parties and social gatherings. However, these facilities often cannot provide the Continuity of Care that is greatly needed for memory loss / Dementia patients, and as such residents are forced to move when their symptoms and care needs increase. Most Assisted Living Facilities have 1 to 3 caregivers for every 50 to 150 residents, and have one administrator coordinating medical and protective case management. Extra care usually comes at a prohibitively high cost or a facility simply says they can't provide that amount of care. When considering an assisted living facility, be sure to ask about how the facility caters to residents who need round the clock care and support.

Residential Care Homes offer a family-style, hands-on, system of care.

Family Style vs. Assembly line Care. Coastal Care Homes offers a "family style" care system, where our staff do most things with our residents. "Business style" care is more delegated and specialized, and is found in the Assisted Living Facilities on the Oregon Coast. Assisted Living Facilities are run as a business first and foremost. Accordingly, each minute is scheduled to maximize billing and staff try to provide some assistance to as many residents as they possibly can. That is a far less personal way to give care. Our staff is available around the clock to care and converse with our residents in a home-style environment. Our staff assists residents with all aspects of their daily lives, including meals, housework, laundry, and scheduling social and other appointments. This attention allows residents to continue interacting in a positive environment and helps them feel valued. Assisted Living Facilities can simply not offer that level of care and residents with memory care issues often deteriorate quickly in such environments.

Live in, family style vs Delegated and specialized care When looking for a care facility in Lincoln City or up and down the Oregon Coast, many people, including family members, are impressed by the amenities on offer at Assisted Living Facilities and think it would be nice to live like you're on vacation every day. However, that delegated, specialty care delivery comes at a big social and emotional cost. Residents of Assisted Living Facilities have their day-to-day basic needs (food, housework) provided for them by a large group of staff. In a residential care home, such as the facilities offered by Coastal Care Homes, residents can help with the cooking and housework. If residents are unable to help, they still participate in the group and get the benefit of social, caring interaction with familiar staff. The family-style environment helps residents with Dementia or memory care needs feel included in life and in the community. This helps prevent residents from feeling isolated or lonely.

Residential Care Homes provide more personal Care Management and Coordination of care than Assisted Living Facilities.

When considering care facilities on the Oregon Coast, people tend to focus on the caregiver ratio. It's also important to consider the amount of managers who provide the protective supervision. Many large Assisted Living Facilities on the Oregon Coast have 1 administrator for 150 residents. As such, those facilities will know its residents, and their families, far less well than the administrator of a small Residential Care Home who supervises 10 residents. Having personal knowledge of residents is critical in providing top-quality Continuity of Care to residents with memory care needs, since changes in personality or expression are often signs that residents will require additional or different care.

RESIDENTIAL CARE HOMES ARE THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE ASSISTED LIVING CARE OPTION. Residential Care Homes on the Oregon Coast, such as Coastal Care Homes, offer a more effective billing structure for memory care needs than that offered by Assisted Living Facilities in Lincoln City. Coastal Care Homes offers a fixed rate billing- you know what you are going to pay each month. Assisted Living Facilities offer "A La Carte" billing which is charged by the minute. In most cases, even though "Assisted Living" implies that assistance is automatically provided, most assisted living facilities do not offer assistance in their base rate. Assistance and medication management are A La Carte add ons to bills from Assisted Living facilities.

Coastal Care Homes offers a fixed price billing that includes accommodation, meals, and 24 hour live in personal care and medication management. Our affordable level 3 care is the highest level of care in the adult foster home. Our prices are comparable of other nursing homes / senior care facilites. If your focus is on the quality and amount of care provided instead of hotel style amenties, it's clear to see that Coastal Care Homes offers far better value than an Assisted Living Facility. We encourage you to come visit us and compare what we offer to other facilities along the Central Oregon Coast. We believe our experience, philosophy of Continuity of Care, and our ability to easily meet a resident's increasing care needs in a home-style environment makes us an excellent choice.