In another case, 73 year old dementia patient, Kenneth Chin lived in an assisted living community, and went regularly to an Adult Day Care Facility by van.

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Advice: Review the assisted living or retirement community contract carefully, including how the entry fee is handled before you sign it.

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In addition to home-care matching, Care.com can also help you find an appropriate assisted living facility, retirement community or continuing care community.

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In fact, when pushed to identify women who have attempted the search fund model, leaders in the niche investment community are hard-pressed to name anyone other than Karen Moriarty, CEO of Carillon Assisted Living, the company she decided to start herself rather than acquire another through her search fund.

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