This comprehensive book will aid you in exploring continuing care retirement communities by giving you, among other things, the: pros and cons of the major senior housing choices, questions to ask about deal-breaking and red-flag issues, details of the financial and legal options, needed amenities and services. Easy-to-understand text and charts help you make an informed decision about your or a relative's future. The FSRC stands alone as the ultimate in retirement accommodations. It provides you: an affordable, catered, country-club lifestyle, time to pursue your favorite activities, unlimited opportunity for friendships, the safety net of unsurpassed care, should it be needed.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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The Most Comprehensive Book on CCRC's,
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This review is from: Worry-Free Retirement Living: Choosing a Full-Service Retirement Community (Paperback)
The authors, Loni and Ralph Smith came to see me at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida on a tour several years ago as part of their research for this book. I can honestly tell you that in all my many many years of Marketing in the senior living industry, I have never met a couple so prepared and knowledgable as the Smiths. I'll never forget them because they had pages and pages of questions, all them important and all of them worth asking!I believe they have made it a life passion to educate people about full service retirement communities and with the publication of this book, their tremendous knowledge is now availabe for every one. There are so many options and choices and contract types that it can be very confusing to someone trying to either chose the right community for themselves or assisting their parents in this choice. I guarantee you that this book will give you all the questions you NEED to be asking to help you pick the right community for yourself. This book is not just an introductory guide but a total and complete course in how to evaluate one community from the next. Definitely worth every penny! Star Bradbury, Marketing Director, Oak Hammock at the University of Florida
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Advice from a well-informed couple who chose a retirement community for themselves,
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This review is from: Worry-Free Retirement Living: Choosing a Full-Service Retirement Community (Paperback)
One, a social science expert and one-time board member of a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC), the other, an attorney and law professor: Ralph and Loni Smith have helped others select a community and then applied their own knowledge to choose one for themselves. In so doing, they assembled five years' worth of research to produce a volume of very sound advice. They recommend a go-slow approach that includes visits to various properties and in-depth interviews with directors of marketing, with chief administrators, with health staff members, and with residents. The most outstanding feature of this book is a thirty-some page checklist of key questions to ask during these visits, along with "red-flag" and "deal-breaker" indicators to steer the prospective resident away from making a bad decision. The chapters leading up to this extensive questionnaire explain the authors' approach and prepare the reader to understand the purpose of each question. There is enough repetition from section to section to allow readers to begin where they choose and read selectively; yet, those who prefer to proceed straight through the text will not be put off by this style. My only objection is the relatively limited focus upon assisted living units in CCRC's; indeed, reading between the lines, the astute reader may sense that there is more to be said about assisted living. Perhaps the authors are mindful that future CCRC residents give little thought to assisted living until the moment comes for crossing that bridge. On the whole, a most useful text; CCRC marketing directors would do well to be on their toes if prospective residents show up with this guidebook in hand.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Great Book!,
This review is from: Worry-Free Retirement Living: Choosing a Full-Service Retirement Community (Paperback)
I'm looking for a retirement community for my father. What a great resource! I especially appreciated the charts and questions I needed to ask. It is well written, humorous and easy to read.
Thank you for a wonderful resource!
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