PAC-Certified Trainer Releases Senior Housing Puzzle Book to Guide Families

Wendy Schabilion, founder of Aliviya Rose Manor Assisted Living Home and a licensed memory care specialist with more than 14 years of hands-on experience, has released two practical books aimed at helping families navigate the complexities of senior housing decisions. The publications come as families throughout Florida continue to face one of the most emotionally difficult choices of their lives: determining where and how to place an aging loved one who can no longer live independently.

Wendy's first title, "Solving The Senior Housing Puzzle: Family Guide to Choosing the Right Options for Mom or Dad", walks families through the full range of care options available to seniors. Her second book, "The Ultimate Guide to Choose the Best Assisted Living for Your Loved One," co-authored with Tristan Fullum, focuses on the assisted living selection process with specific questions, red flags, and criteria that families rarely know to look for. Both books draw directly from Wendy's background as a former Hospice RN, BSN, MSC, and PAC Certified Independent Trainer -- credentials that provided her with a clinical understanding of what seniors genuinely need at different stages of decline.

Wendy founded Aliviya Rose Manor Assisted Living Home in 2022. Operating under AHCA License #1184, the boutique 8-resident home in Spring Hill, FL provides a structured residential environment for individuals living with memory loss or diminished capacity in other activities of daily living. The limited resident count is deliberate -- it allows staff to deliver a level of care that larger facilities are structurally unable to replicate. That same philosophy runs through both books, which are written for family members rather than medical professionals.

The guides are intentionally accessible. When a parent is discharged from a hospital or a diagnosis arrives without warning, families are typically given days -- not months -- to make decisions that carry lasting consequences. Most have never navigated assisted living Florida placement before. Wendy's books function as a condensed education, translating what a memory care specialist develops over years of clinical work into plain language any adult child or spouse can apply without delay.

"After years of watching families walk through our doors in a state of panic, I realized the system gives them almost no time and almost no real information," said Wendy Schabilion, Founder of Aliviya Rose Manor Assisted Living Home. "I wrote these books because every family deserves to ask the right questions before they sign anything -- and the first book alone covers more than 40 questions families should be asking that most never think to raise."

Wendy's path to authorship is grounded in clinical experience rather than theory. Her background in hospice nursing gave her direct exposure to end-of-life care, while her work as a PAC Certified Independent Trainer sharpened her understanding of how care systems are evaluated and where they commonly fall short. Those combined perspectives shape the books into a functional senior housing guide rather than a surface-level overview. Families using either title are working from the same framework a seasoned clinician would apply when assessing care options.

The two books are available through aliviyarosemanor.com, where families can also contact Wendy's team directly with questions specific to memory care placement or assisted living Florida options in the Spring Hill area.