The Work Is Different in a Home of Twelve: What the Residential Model Asks of the People Who Run It

If you have spent years in senior living, you know the gap between the care you wanted to give and the care the schedule allowed. That gap is the quiet reason good people leave this field. In a residential home of 8 to 12 residents, the relationship is not incidental to the operating model. It is the operating model. Here is what the work actually looks like, what it asks of you, and an honest accounting of who thrives in it and who should not make the move.