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AL residents told they can no longer eat downstairs with the IL residents or they will be charged. There is no communication about this and still when I ask there is nothing written but they were stopped from going down the elevator at dinner time. Is this legal or what can I do or say to the director and the new head of food and beverage who are dictating these new procedures. This is in Illinois.

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Folks in IL can really be weird about AL folks. Generally once someone moves to AL, that’s the end of their social life with their IL friends. It’s like they don’t want to see people like themselves who are obviously declining. This could be a meal management thing OR it could be IL folks complaining that too many very frail appearing people are ruining their restaurant experience. Either way, you can complain but you have no actual “rights” that are being violated.
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At the ccrc that dh worked for, al residents could eat in the il dining rooms at all times. Most chose not to as the ccrc offered an individual service just fir them.
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If all the AL residents with their walkers and wheelchairs go to dinner in the IL dining room, is it going to feel like Independent Living to those who signed up for Independent Senior Living? As a private pay facility, the administration is allowed to make any rules they see fit to make. They were probably receiving a lot of complaints from the IL residents. And remembering my mother's "table manners" when she lived in AL, it was pretty difficult to watch her eat. That's not to say your loved one has questionable table manners, but MANY AL residents do, and think nothing of belching and slurping during dinner.
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They are not completely banned. If they make a reservation 24 hours in advance and pay for their meal. They can eat downstairs but only two residents from AL can eat down there at one time.
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MG8522 8 hours ago
That sounds reasonable. Most facilities with multiple levels of care have similar policies. It's not like a for-profit restaurant where the more meals they sell, the better. They need to have some predictability about what the meal needs will be.
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They're not banned, they just need to pay for their meals. Probably the payment structure for meals is different in the contracts for Al and IL. How much is the charge? Usually it's not very much. Probably the amount that would be charged for a guest from outside the community. As long as they are still able to eat as usual on their own floor, there's nothing illegal about that. Just ask, and be reasonable about it.
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Highly doubt this is a legal matter. More like a rule of the community, something to discuss with the director
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