Updates
Short notes, dated. What changed, what we learned, and the occasional thing we got wrong.
A family care home is a licensed home where two to six adults live and get help around the clock. That’s the whole definition. It’s a house — this one, on this street.
North Carolina pays about $46 a day for a person’s room, meals, and a home with staff awake in it around the clock. A budget motel room costs more. It doesn’t come with dinner.
North Carolina law doesn’t classify a family care home as an institution. It treats it as a residential use of property — a house, in a neighborhood, that a neighborhood can’t zone out. That isn’t a technicality. It’s the whole idea.
She knows he goes quiet before he gets upset. She knows what her good days look like, so she can tell when it’s a bad one. You can’t write that into a care plan. It only comes from years.
A resident in an adult care home keeps $70 a month for everything personal — clothes, a haircut, a phone, a birthday present for a grandchild. That’s about $2.30 a day.
Who lives in one: older adults who need somebody nearby but not a nursing home. Adults living with mental illness. Adults with developmental disabilities or a brain injury. People in their forties on disability. It isn’t a home for old people. It’s a home for people who need one.
Come and look
Call to schedule a visit. Walk through the whole house, meet whoever is on shift, and ask us anything you want.
