was to contact a local company that would hold an auction for everything left over.
Assisted/independent living facilities can be wonderful. You need to look into them. Nursing homes can be a bit of a different thing.
I hope to move into a place that has independent, assisted living, and memory care, in case I get dementia. The reality is that staying at home simply won't work for a lot of people. Over the years I've been very frustrated by those who either assure the older generation they won't put them into a nursing home, or the older person who begs the younger one to promise not to put them in one. Here's the thing: If someone has dementia, or complex medical needs, the average son or daughter cannot take effective care of them. The stories of spouses or children totally exhausting themselves trying to care for someone are legion.
Four different times in my life I've looked at care places on behalf of a relative. I've always been pleasantly surprised at what's out there. When it came to the recent tour of places for my brother and his wife, we looked at seven different places. One was vastly better than any of the others. The essential issue was that most places had very small one bedroom units, and these are two people who have lived in a decent sized home for many decades. They would not survive being crammed into a 700 square foot (maybe even smaller) one bedroom unit. The place we found, White Springs in Warrenton, VA, is very new, and has wonderful units. They even have a lot of amazing and very large studio units. I could personally move into any one of those. They are strictly assisted living an memory care, meaning dementia unit. All of us loved it. It's a matter of filling out all the paperwork and then getting moved.
We all need to be realistic about our aging years. And as we Boomers, and eventually the next generations, move into this stage of our lives, there will be more and better such facilities.
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