Looking for a high quality assisted living facility can be a stressful experience for older adults and their families. The challenge starts when we ask, "What is high quality?" UMBC's Dr. Leslie Morgan suggests a more helpful question: "What facility would best meet the individual personality and needs of my loved one?"
"Quality Assisted Living" provides results from a study on perceptions of what constitutes quality of life in assisted living facilities, funded by the National Institute on Aging. In this video, Morgan explains how her research team completed in-depth interviews with residents, staff and family members to tease apart the notion of "quality." The book they've delivered is a down-to-earth, accessible discussion of topics ranging from dining preferences to housing regulations to financial issues, in residents' own words.
Morgan is a professor of sociology at UMBC and a researcher with our Center for Aging Studies. For more information on "Quality Assisted Living" see http://goo.gl/Oedvc.