Mill Park Terrace Apts

A nursing home is normally the highest level of care for older adults outside of a hospital. Retirement homes are also called retirement residences. Assistance may include the administration or supervision of medication, or personal care services provided by a trained staff person. Generally, retirement homes are designed for seniors who need minimal to moderate support with their daily living activities. 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. More than two-thirds of the states use the licensure term assisted living. The housing is friendlier to older adults, more compact, with easier navigation and assistance in outside maintenance. Some facilities provide minor help with medications as well. The usual retirement home pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Each state licensing agency has its own definition of the term it uses to describe assisted living. Generally, retirement homes are designed for seniors who need minimal to moderate support with their daily living activities. 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.