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Hi All...I've posted here before. My 90 year old father was recently admitted to assisted living after an illness. He was doing better and moving around. Last week he fell and broke his pelvic bone. So off to hospital and now back at skilled care facility. We went from him moving around and exercising to bed bound. I have no idea what their "care plan" is for my father. No surgery, I do know that. In the meantime, they want this month's AL rent and all future months. How is that possible? He's not in the apartment. I asked if there were a "holding fee" for his AL apt that we could pay. I was told to ask their CFO. Have any of you been in this situation before? Just looking for some insight and talking points with the facility. Thank you.

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Check the contract. My mom needed to give 60 days notice. Even if she was in hospital rehab her "rent" needed to be paid. Only exception was death.
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This is normal, just like renting an apt, as said. Read the contract. Moms said that she paid fully for 2 weeks. After two weeks she would be credited the care fees onva daily basis.
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If you expect to hold dad's apartment in the AL for when he comes back from rehab, then rent is expected to be paid on the empty unit. Same as if you went on vacation while renting an apartment.....you still pay while you're gone. If you don't feel dad will return to AL and will require Skilled Nursing care moving forward, let them know asap because they're likely to charge you 30 days rent and a move out fee. Look over the signed contract for details. In Independent Living, they took TWO months rent when my folks had to move out and into Assisted Living! I was super annoyed at that, especially since dad had a broken hip and I was stuck moving him under duress into AL after rehab booted him out, then trying to get mom moved out of IL and in with him. Ugh, it was very stressful and ridiculously expensive. Nothing like piling stress on US when we're about ready to collapse as it is, right? 🙄
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At my father's assisted living, which was a rental situation, it worked just like renting an apartment, you owed the rent as long as you were leasing the apartment. They did reduce the food and care costs, which were always charged separately, and just charged for the actual space if you were out for more than a month. They also had a limit to the amount of time the unit could go without him living in it so we couldn't hold it indefinitely. They usually had a waiting list so were anxious to not have unoccupied units.
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