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[Gringo Greg]

This Friday's we will have Ron Langley of Lakeside Care.

Ron has a well established elderly care home. He will discuss the advantages of his facilities for senior expats.

We will also have our regular segments of the Etiquette Lesson and the Word of the Week. All accompanied with some great latin music.

Tune in to nuestrojocotepecradio.com at 5pm every Friday. For past episodes, go to the A Gringo Like Me website

[lakeside7]

This Friday's we will have Ron Lanley of Lakeside Care.

Ron has a well established elderly care home. He will discuss the advantages of his facilities for senior expats.

We will also have our regular segments of the Etiquitte Lesson and the Word of the Week. All accompanied with some great latin music.

Tune in to nuestrojocotepecradio.com at 5pm every Friday. For past episodes, go to the A Gringo Like Me website

Is this facility licensed by the State?

[Gringo Greg]

I don't believe that Mexico regulates this type of buisness. It is a good question that I will bring this up with Ron during our interview tonight.

[otbdiane]

Certainly need more info and photos of facility. Costs, rules and regs etc. Is this for active expats, can you have your own car, how about pets?

[lakeside7]

If you have any business, you are required to have a license from the respective city/state body.period

Certainly being in the "health care" business there are requirements and standards to be met

Not meeting those standards was one of the reasons the Chapala Ancianos was "closed" some months back. (Yes I know that it may also have been politically motivated, but now re opened).

Whilst most of the local retirement/nursing homes have tender, loving "aides" ,the ratio of patients to a nurse is high...

But it is a trade off and "affordable" when compared to NOB prices..BUT you are comparing apples and oranges when you consider the NOB standards that have to be met.

Maybe staying at a B&B that is not license is OK....BUT would you really want to placed a loved one in a non regulated home???

[Englishrose1]

I am delighted Ron Langley has taken up the invitation to talk with Greg on the programme.
The people at Lakeside I count now as my second family.
I came here to stay a few weeks ago after a mental breakdown. I was found by the police sleeping on the beach following a successful appeal on Chapala .com. Thank you all.

Now after a superb level of care and the right medication, I am almost entirely recovered. But most important I am very happy and content here.

At 69 after over 50years working hard I am living in a pressure free zone.

The lakeside view, over well kept grounds greets me each morning through floor to ceiing windows. I have a suite of four rooms, with a hot shower there for me whenever I wish.

We are called to the dining room for three imaginatively cooked meals on time daily. Smiling trained Mexican staff work one to one with us day to day. But extra staff are on call in emergencies such as I was ,right out of the blue.

All the laundry is taken care of, there is good TV,use of a good computer and the internet.

So I can please myself what IIdo. There are plenty of good books to read in English, room to excercise plus a static cycle and a trampoline

One of my friends here, who had a fright with a dangerous diabetes episode in is own home, has brought his own car here and his lovely dog. Pets are very welcome.

But to me its the warm family atmosphere I love. We went out shopping yesteday and had fun comparing bargains.

Sarah, Rons wife is a nurse with 25 years experience, which she constantly updates at seminars to keep up with medical advances.

Oh and I can live here comfortably on what the British government pays me.

Talking of which the Mexica Ambassador flew from Mexico City to visit me here last month and was thoroughly satisfied I was in the best possible place.
satisfied that I was in

[Irish Gal]

That's wonderful to hear, EnglishRose, that you are enjoying your new home. Sounds like an ideal living environment in beautiful surroundings.

All the best to you.

[khof]

Casita del Lago is worth checking out if you have a loved one who needs care.
It is a wonderful place.
It serves all sorts of needs from recovery from surgery to light assisted living to hospice care.
I personally know several of the patient-guests there.

[Irish Gal]

Where is Casa del Lago located?

[Gringo Greg]

Last nights radio broadcast is now available on the A Gringo Like Me website. It will help all with answers to this boards questions, as well as contact information for Ron Langley.