Caregiver Resources

FMLA may give eligible employees job-protected unpaid leave to care for a parent with a serious health condition. Learn what to check during a senior-care transition.

Before rehab discharge, practice safe car transfers with the actual vehicle, mobility device, seat height, caregiver, and transportation backup plan.

Before a parent leaves rehab for a home with stairs, ask about step height, rails, endurance, supervision, assistive devices, caregiver training, and a backup plan.

Before rehab discharge, ask whether home safety has been evaluated for stairs, bathroom access, transfers, equipment, caregiver capacity, fall risks, and emergency exit.

Ask how skilled nursing rehab handles weekend therapy, missed sessions, nursing carryover, therapist schedules, goals, and discharge planning without assuming every day is identical.

There is no fixed adjustment period after a move to memory care. Learn what families can watch during the first days and weeks, what may improve with routine, and which changes need clinical follow-up.

Learn when memory care may fit, what communities assess before admission, and which care needs may require another setting.

Hospice can often be provided in assisted living or memory care. Learn what hospice covers, what the community still provides, how room and board work, and what families should verify.

Review a nursing home final bill after death by checking dates, daily charges, deposits, refunds, pharmacy or ancillary fees, insurance, Medicaid, and contract terms.

Ask how nursing homes provide language access for residents and families, including qualified interpreters, translated notices, care meetings, consent, and emergencies.