Senior Residential Estates

Retirement villages and retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents. Other licensure terms used for this philosophy of care include Residential Care Home, Assisted Care Living Facilities, and Personal Care Homes. Assisted Living communities are regulated and licensed at the US state level. More than two-thirds of the states use the licensure term assisted living. Assistance may include the administration or supervision of medication, or personal care services provided by a trained staff person. Staff is available twenty-four hours a day. Other licensure terms used for this philosophy of care include Residential Care Home, Assisted Care Living Facilities, and Personal Care Homes. Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with coordination of services by outside health careproviders. Assisted living comes by many names, such as residential care, board and care, or group homes.