The Question of When: A Practical Guide to Knowing When It's Time for Assisted Living, Memory Care, or Skilled Nursing

Waiting feels like love. Acting feels like giving up. Neither is true-but by the time most families find out, the decision has already been made for them.

The Question of When is for the adult child watching a parent decline and not knowing where the line is. For the spouse managing alone and wondering how much longer. For anyone who has felt the weight of a decision that no one prepared them to make.

Cory Fosco spent thirty-four years working inside skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and memory care units-as a social worker, admissions director, and healthcare technology executive. He has sat with hundreds of families at this exact moment. This is the book he wrote for all of them.

Honest about the difficulty. Clear about the options. Written by someone who has seen what happens when families wait-and what becomes possible when they don't.

The Question of When reached #1 New Release in Nursing Home Care on Amazon in its first week.

Cory Fosco has spent thirty-four years at the intersection of long-term care, healthcare technology, and the families facing the most difficult decisions of their lives. He began his career as a volunteer with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps Southwest, working with homebound seniors at the Mesa Senior Center in Arizona, then served as a social worker and Director of Admissions at skilled nursing facilities in Phoenix and the Chicago area. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from Loyola University Chicago and a Master of Arts in Creative Nonfiction from Northwestern University. A short story from his chapbook Empty Streets (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) was Pushcart Prize-nominated. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife Cyndi, an active advocate in the blind and vision-impaired community, and is the proud father of their two adult children, Fredo and Lily.