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Independent living is a general name for any housing arrangement designed exclusively for seniors. Assisted living comes by many names, such as residential care, board and care, or group homes. A nursing home may be a good choice if both medical and personal care needs have become too great to handle at home. The housing is friendlier to older adults, more compact, with easier navigation and assistance in outside maintenance. Retirement homes are also called retirement residences. Assisted Living communities are regulated and licensed at the US state level. 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. More than two-thirds of the states use the licensure term assisted living. A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. Assisted Living communities are regulated and licensed at the US state level.