When age has caught up with your loved ones, leaving their bodies weak and their minds distraught, how will you protect them? How will you take care of them? Who will take care of them? For a conservative family, an institutionalized care is probably out of the picture. For a very conservative family, the scenario mentioned in the previous sentence connotes abandonment. I understand their sentiments but I don’t agree with regard the abandoning issue. Each of us has our own limitations. When caring for an aged individual exceeds your capacity, what’ll you do? What will you choose? Nursing homes? Foster homes? Adult housing? Adult day care? The thought of taking care of an elderly is admiring (heroic even.) However, the process itself requires you to devote almost all your time solely to him especially when physical and mental condition exists. I’ll be reiterating my question: When caring for an aged individual exceeds your capacity, what’ll you do? It is but proper to get help whether it’s in a form of adult foster care homes or institutionalized care. Between the two, the ideal would be the former. This brings me to the topic at hand—providing assisted living to the aged through adult foster care homes and other less restrictive types of adult care.

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