assisted living

Overview

Assisted living is an umbrella category covering a lot of specific areas:

• long term care
• home health services
• adult care homes
• nursing facilities (aka nursing homes)

The majority of these services are geared towards the elderly; the next most common group served is the physically impaired. Care for the mentally impaired (including those with low-functioning varieties of autism) seems to be among the services less commonly mentioned.

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Related

• family care homes

HTYP Pages

• ...in North Carolina
  • ...in Durham, NC
    • family care homes in Durham, NC
• the autism page has some information on assisted living for individuals with autism (most assisted living facilities are designed either for the elderly or drug rehabilitation; "developmental issues" are a 3rd-place market, and autism is a subset of that, so autism-oriented facilities tend to be harder to find)