Assisted Living Group Tackles Challenges, Embraces Opportunities

There are many challenges for the Assisted Living Subcommittee of AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine. Among them, said Chair Sarah Howd, MD, CMD, assistant professor of medicine and geriatrics at the University of Rochester Medicine Center, is “if you’ve seen one assisted living community, you’ve seen one.” There is so much variatio n from state to state and even from community to community. “You can go to one assisted living facility, then go down the road to another one and it’s totally different,” she observed.
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