Turning Point Residential

Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. Staff is available twenty-four hours a day. Assisted living is a philosophy of care and services promoting independence and dignity. Nursing Home residents in a skilled nursing facility may also receive physical, occupational, and other rehabilitative therapies following an accident or illness. Independent living is a general name for any housing arrangement designed exclusively for seniors. A nursing home may be a good choice if both medical and personal care needs have become too great to handle at home. The usual retirement home pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Retirement villages and retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents. 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.