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		<title>It&#8217;s getting crowded around here&#8230;sort of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gee whiz &#8211; the assisted living space is getting pretty crowded &#8211; and crowded with some pretty shady characters. Seems like every time I look at my blog comments, there&#8217;s another spammy, awful &#8220;referral&#8221; service or site trying to post their site and information, in hopes to benefit from our site&#8217;s reputation and longevity (we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking for assisted living for 91 year old grandmother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another great question directed to one of the facilities on our site (names have been removed).. My 91 year old grandmother has been living with us for some time. She had her 3rd hip operation in May and came home from Heartland Rehab this past week. Unfortunately she is weak and has difficulty transferring herself [...]]]></description>
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		<title>facilities or in-home programs that will only take the government funding?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another great question about assisted living and government funding that came into our site - &#8220;My 67 year old sister has been told she needs to go into assisted living.  She requires assistance with diet and medication administration.  Most of her family is in Macomb and Oakland counties Michigan.  She only recieves disability pension and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Kisses..one of the few remaining motor acts of an Alzheimer&#8217;s victim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I happen upon something relevant to our site that makes me pause to process it&#8217;s significance. I know that Alzheimer&#8217;s is a dreadful disease &#8211; stripping a person down to almost nothing but an empty shell.   However, although we might think there is nothing left, and that the well of emotion and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Needs an assisted living apartment with health care and companionship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another great inquiry that came through the site &#8211; a person with some complex needs looking for a small residential apartment-style assisted living in Florida. The question was as follows: Dear Sirs: I am writing because I have my brother in need of a residence place, but he is handicap. He is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assisted-living-directory.com/blog/index.php/needs-an-assisted-living-apartment-with-health-care-and-companionship/</link>
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		<title>Elderly Medicaid person with dementia?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another good question that came in to a particular facility &#8211; I always find these interesting &#8211; would **your* facility be able to take this person? *********************************** Do you accept, &#038; have an opening for elderly Medicaid person with dementia? My mother is 86, physically active, currently in a nursing home in Ann Arbor, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assisted-living-directory.com/blog/index.php/elderly-medicaid-person-with-dementia/</link>
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		<title>Would your facility be able to accommodate this person?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is another great question submitted through our site to an assisted living facility &#8211; we&#8217;ve removed anyidentifying names. We think it is a great question relevant to our &#8220;how to open&#8221; an assisted living facility article.Many people who dream of opening their own ALF may not fully realize the scope of issues that their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assisted-living-directory.com/blog/index.php/would-your-facility-be-able-to-accommodate-this-person-2/</link>
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		<title>Assistive technologies and Little Red Dot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always amazing to me how I learn about new things, and meet new people. I stumbled upon a great site through the course of some general surfing around last week &#8211; the National University of Singapore, and I noticed that they have an initiative spearheaded by the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre called InnoAge &#8211; where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assisted-living-directory.com/blog/index.php/assistive-technologies-and-little-red-dot/</link>
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		<title>Great question about facility care and services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This was a great question submitted to our site recently &#8211; I am posting it because it is a great &#8220;loaded&#8221; question for a facility. I did not include any personal information to protect the person who submitted it. ***************************************** &#8220;My father-in-law is a ex-POW from the Korean War receiving 100% V.A. disability, Medicare, all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.assisted-living-directory.com/blog/index.php/great-question-about-facility-care-and-services/</link>
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		<title>Assisted living for wandering, but not Alzheimer&#8217;s?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great question that we received this week through our site &#8211; we&#8217;d like to invite anyone who might have input to comment. Thank you! &#8211; David (editor) ************************* Hello, Is there an assisted living environment in the area, that caters to early stages Alzheimer&#8217;s patients who wander but are not yet appropriate [...]]]></description>
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