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There are 3 main signs that it is time to move to assisted living. Number one is that there there was an event, maybe they fell and the doctors say they could fall again and if they do, who's going to be there in the home to see it and pick them up or bring them in or call 911. Mobility issues are there more activities that they can't do? I mean really slowing down to the point where they need a cane, a walker or even a wheelchair. The second sign is that they're lonely. They're at home, alone, and they're not engaged anymore. If they're all alone at home, what's going to stimulate them? They need to be engaged and just need to do something where they're part of a community. But if they're quieter, they're staying in, they don't leave the house anymore. That turns into the social constriction, and isolation. Third one is, are they meeting their own needs when it comes to medication, are they forgetting to take it or taking too much? Food, they forget to eat, or they eat and forgot they eat and eat again. And taking care of themselves, they aren’t bathing or washing their clothes. Those kinds of personal functions are what we call activities of daily living. When they start to need help with those things, well you know that it's getting close to time.