![]() ![]() ![]() You can pay for guests to join you for meals. We also have serviced apartments here one can buy into where one lives independently but cleaning and linen service is provided and meals are taken in a common dining room - generally a la carte and very upmarket, while breakfast is a hamper provided in your apartment that will only have very basic kitchen facilities. Again, depending on needs, it can also be possible to buy into independent living to get your foot in the door and provide your own assistance until such time as you can get the more intense assisted living. Sometimes they can allow you to stay in your independent living accommodation and still provide the extra services you may need - depending of course on what those are. If you do consider this, do check that that out, and what options they offer. ![]() They have no way of knowing a year or more in advance just what accommodation they will have available at any particular time. Our retirement centres sound like they have the same 3 levels as you do and it is definitely advantageous to enter at the independent living level, but here buying into independent living accommodation with the other two levels attached, if you read the fine print, still does not guarantee they will be able to provide a higher level of care just when you need it, and you could still find yourself shunted elsewhere. Thedarlingbecca, you are right in that respect, it is very difficult there to know what to do. Having some real space of your own helps a great deal. It is a challenge to work all day with your spouse. NOW I have peace and quiet to work because nobody wants to climb up those stairs unless it is really important. It's is a steep staircase and 16 steps to get there. Eventually he was STILL too loud and I moved my office upstairs. ![]() He moved out to our "bull pen" with the salesmen and I stayed in my office. We initially had side by side offices there but he was so loud on the phone I couldn't take it. Fortunately our business grew and we bought a building to house it and the additional employees that came along. It's one thing to work all day with your spouse and quite another to do it within that kind of space. It seemed like a lot of space at the time but we outgrew it quickly. There was an additional desk on the opposite wall. My husband and I started our business out of our home 6 years ago in a 10x14 room with the long wall comprised of a long desktop supported by three file cabinets (one on each end and one in the middle). ![]()
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