Isabelle Guarino

I'm doing great.

Thanks for having me on the show.

letting people live with dignity so thank you for that i think you're right on the money what has been in the past is not what we want for the future and it's not acceptable and i think things like covid shined a nice bright flashlight on what's happening in what i call the big box communities right the big commercial facilities with long hallways and impersonal staff

COVID let people understand and know what's actually going on there.

And all of a sudden, adult children started ripping their loved ones out of those care homes looking for alternatives.

And we've kind of always been over here saying, hey, smaller is better.

And there are other options.

But we just don't have the big billboard and the big sign.

But that started to kind of rise and come into more public knowledge that there are options.

staying at home one-on-one being isolated isn't always the best fit and a facility isn't always the best fit.

There's something in the middle called residential assisted living and it's just a much better option for everyone involved.

So I'm grateful for COVID and I am grateful to be in this space with the coming silver tsunami of seniors because people are looking for something different and better and they should.

We all deserve to age with dignity.

Yeah.

So 15 years ago when my own grandmother needed care, we were looking for options for her and found nothing suitable.

Nowhere I'd want to leave my goldfish, let alone my grandma.

So my dad had been a real estate investor and he was looking for a place for her and did quick math and was like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

If we just owned this home, we could cashflow really well.

She could live for free.

She's going to get that quality care.