Build your list in five columns: identification and documents, clothing, toiletries, medications, and valuables or electronics. Beside every uncertain item, write permitted, restricted, prohibited, or awaiting answer. Ask about quantities, container materials, opened products, products containing alcohol, cash, jewelry, chargers, nicotine products, food, bedding, and laundry supplies. These are questions, not statements about Living Longer's policies.
Do not pack based on another person's stay or another facility's rules. Ask whether luggage is searched, inventoried, labeled, or stored and what happens to an item that cannot be kept. If a family member may need to take something home, confirm whether that person should remain nearby during intake. Ask what essentials, if any, can be addressed when a permitted item was forgotten, without assuming the facility supplies it.
- Can you send me the current belongings policy in writing?
- Are there limits on clothing, toiletries, luggage, cash, or electronics?
- How are restricted items handled, and may a support person take them home?