Western Sun Apartments

An assisted living facility may be a good choice if you need more personal care services than are feasible at home or in an independent living retirement community. Retirement villages and retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents. A nursing home may be a good choice if both medical and personal care needs have become too great to handle at home. A nursing home is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living. Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living. Assistance may include the administration or supervision of medication, or personal care services provided by a trained staff person. Retirement homes are privately owned rental accommodations for seniors who are able to manage and pay for their own care. Staff is available twenty-four hours a day. Assisted living is a philosophy of care and services promoting independence and dignity. Assisted living emerged in the 1990s as an eldercare alternative on the continuum of care for seniors for whom Independent living is no longer appropriate but who do not need the 24-hour medical care provided by a nursing home. A nursing home is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living. Independent Living Communities enable residents to live as independently as possible, while providing certain services and social activities. A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. Assisted living comes by many names, such as residential care, board and care, or group homes.