There's a conversation that happens in almost every family exploring senior living, and it usually goes something like this: "We just want to make sure Mom doesn't sit in her apartment all day."
Imagine two buildings sitting next to each other on the same street. One looks like a cozy apartment complex with a garden out front. The other resembles a small hospital. Both serve older adults, but in very different ways, for very different reasons.
Many Americans provide care for an aging parent or loved one from more than an hour away. If you're one of them, managing your own career and family in one city while worrying about a parent near Gambrills, Annapolis, or elsewhere in Anne Arundel County, you already know the weight of that responsibility.