This story originally appeared in the California Health Report.
Julie Hendrickson was nervous about her 87-year-old father’s move to a San Diego County assisted living facility and wanted to make sure they both understood the rules and conditions before signing the contract. The person who admitted her father was walking them through the document line by line, when two words caught Hendrickson’s attention: family council.
“I’d never heard of it before,” Hendrickson said. “I was looking for a way that I might transition to give him some space and independence but still advocate, you know, still be supportive.”…