Crestview Life Center

Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with coordination of services by outside health careproviders. A retirement home is a multi-residence housing facility intended for senior citizens. Retirement villages and retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents. Assisted Living communities are regulated and licensed at the US state level. Assisted living comes by many names, such as residential care, board and care, or group homes. Staff is available twenty-four hours a day. 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. 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. You do not need to provide medical evidence that you need a minimum level of care. Staff is available twenty-four hours a day. 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.