Isabelle Guarino

Many people are kind of going that direction.

That's one way to do it.

I really recommend at least three homes within 20 to 40 minutes of each other because of the ability to share resources.

That is the best way.

You know, I think, though, it's great that you're talking about this because a lot of people do want to go bigger, right?

And then they say, well, why can't I?

Why shouldn't I?

And they understand the institution.

They understand the expenses.

But there's really this whole other piece of it, which I call the heart part of it, right?

In a traditional big box facility, you'll have 30 seniors to one caregiver.

In an RAL, you might have four to one or five to one.

So if you fall and break your hip and press your call button, you're getting a response in 90 seconds, right?

When you go to a large facility, the typical response time is over 90 minutes.

That is a huge difference, right?

If you fell and got a brain bleed, that could be the difference between life and death.

And it's not that those caregivers don't care and don't want to be there and don't want to help you.

Of course they do.

They're doing this because they love seniors and they want to do that.

But if you're paying the same as a senior living in those homes, you want to get the care.