Phillis Wheatley Assn

Senior Living - info and advice for older adults. Assisted living comes by many names, such as residential care, board and care, or group homes. A place in a retirement home can be paid for on a rental basis, like an apartment, or can be bought in perpetuity on the same basis as a condominium. Nursing Home residents include the elderly and younger adults with physical or mental disabilities. The housing is friendlier to older adults, more compact, with easier navigation and assistance in outside maintenance. The usual retirement home pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Housing arrangements for the future can be a stressful, anxiety-provoking topic for you and your family. Nursing Home residents in a skilled nursing facility may also receive physical, occupational, and other rehabilitative therapies following an accident or illness. Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with coordination of services by outside health careproviders.