My sis looked into assisted living with 8 hour per day home health care for my dad and stepmother with the health care only for my dad and it would cost about as much as a nursing home. Assisted living allows them to live without abiding by the rules the nursing home has or is required to have and allows the resident to live more privately than a nursing home. The nursing home has 24 hour care vs however many hours of care you feel you need or can afford in assisted living.
Dad spent the summer in the nursing home recuperating from a broken leg. He's 90 and in good health but weak and low on physical stamina. He didn't like nursing home rules because he has never had to live by anybody's rules except his own. When he could finally get around with a walker he couldn't walk the halls without an aid hanging onto his belt so he felt like his ability to get stronger with walking exercise was being restricted. The nursing home has to have those rules. Any fall is reported and is frowned on by the inspectors.
He is home now and home health comes in twice a week to bathe him and check him over. He kind of misses the nursing home because of the loss of the camaraderie with the nurse aids and other residents and he doesn't have the long halls to walk now that it's winter and he can't get outside. Assisted living in this area does not have any more exercise room than his own home.
So to sum it up, from what my sis found in this area, assisted living is cheaper than nursing home only if the resident or residents can take care of themselves pretty much all the time. If home health has to come in part of a day every day of the week the costs will rack up to be almost as much as the nursing home depending on where the nursing home is and what they provide.
I would think some or all newer assisted living facilities might have an exercise room but I don't know for sure. There are lots of variables out there. Facilities vary greatly. We found that out last summer. Somewhere in a medicare website there is a care facility rating and an in home care rating but I've forgotten where it is exactly. Jim
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