CE WEBINAR

Let’s Take a Deep Dive into Continuing Care Retirement Communities:
Are They Worth the High Cost?

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

4pm ET / 3pm CT / 2pm MT / 1pm PT

Registration deadline: October 16, 2023

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Continuing Care Retirement Communities (also called Life Care Communities) offer residents numerous benefits and access to higher levels of care over their lifetime. But how do they really work? Why are the contracts so complicated? Are they always so expensive? This webinar will unravel some of the confusion and explain not only the industry basics, but critical factors in vetting a community.

The goal of this session is to educate Aging Life Care Professionals members about Continuing Care Retirement Communities and the basics of contract options.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, Aging Life Care Professionals® will be able to:

• Explain options and better guide their clients on this topic of CCRCs
• Identify the governing structures and oversight of CCRCs to allow for best guidance and appropriate level of care for clients
• Differentiate the medical and financial admission requirements for CCRCs

About the Presenter

As a senior living expert, Star Bradbury has helped thousands of families make educated and informed decisions as they navigate the world of senior living and senior healthcare. Based on her 25 years of real-world experience, Star’s book, Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years, offers a comprehensive guide that walks families through developing a flexible proactive plan that focuses on keeping loved ones independent for as long as possible no matter their age.

A former Florida licensed administrator and Executive Director for both an Assisted Living and Memory Care facility, Star has a broad understanding of the variety of options and choices families face. Her 18 years working with a nationally recognized Life Care Community allows her to share her expertise in this otherwise confusing and complex senior living option as well. Star shares some of the rules and regulations governing admissions in senior living, an overview of costs to expect, and the right questions to ask that are critical during times of need.

Star’s insider experience is invaluable to anyone wanting to make sure they know how to choose the right community for a loved one, help their parents age in place successfully, or find more help when their parents’ need more care. Her realistic approach is refreshing and her principles to aging well and making crucial decisions can be applied immediately.

As the founder of Senior Living Strategies, she regularly collaborates and consults with individuals and families from all walks of life as well as professionals in the legal, medical, financial, and long-term care insurance world. Her passion is to help families develop a comprehensive, proactive plan that will allow them to make the best most informed decisions--for their parents’ well-being and their own. Having lost both sets of parents, in-laws, a sister, and many friends, she has the compassion and understanding as well as the professional experience to guide you.

Today, Star’s focus remains on helping seniors and their families learn how to age successfully through consulting, speaking, and teaching workshops on the following topics:

• The Secret to Successful Aging: How to Stay in Charge of Your Life
• Successfully Navigating Your Parents’ Senior Years
• A Roadmap for Solo Agers
• Making Sense of Senior Living: Decoding the Alphabet Soup of AL, IL, CCRC, ADL and More!
• Long Distance Care Giving: How to Make the Impossible Possible
• A Deep Dive into Life Care Communities: Are they Worth the High Cost?

Continuing Education Credit Hours

Approval is pending for 1 CE contact hour from NACCM, CBRN, and CCMC. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # 15884, for 1 Contact Hour. Attendee must attend entire LIVE webinar to receive any CE certificates.

Cancellation Policy

The registration fee for webinars is non-refundable. Registrants who are not able to attend the webinar will receive audio & video files following the event. For clinical webinars, CE contact hours will not be available to those who are not able to attend the entire live event. In the unfortunate event that a webinar needs to be cancelled or rescheduled ALCA will notify the registrant by email and provide information on the new date or alternative arrangements. If the registrant is not able to attend the new date ALCA will refund the registration fee or place a credit towards a future event.

Fees: Free for Advanced Professional Members
$29.00 for Members and Corporate Partners | $99 for Nonmembers