Survey: Older Adults and Their Families Better Off After Moving to Assisted Living
Ben Hanowell
Director of People Analytics Research, ADP Research. I study the decisions of employees and employers. My posts reflect my own thoughts.
Originally posted on APlaceforMom.com.
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A Place for Mom is North America’s largest senior living referral service. Private-pay assisted living communities made up over half of our move-ins between 2012 and 2015. There is much debate among researchers, policymakers, and families about the benefits of private-pay assisted living to seniors and their families. We designed a Family Quality of Life Survey (FQLS) to measure how moving to an assisted living community affects the quality of life of the senior who moves and of their family member who helps them move. Here we describe the methods of the survey and its key results.
We found moving to an assisted living community is associated with greater overall quality of life for both the senior and family member. The move is also associated with greater quality of life across a range of dimensions including but not limited to: the senior’s nutrition and social well-being; the family member’s level of stress about the senior; and the quality of the relationship between the senior and their family member.
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