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Encyclopedia > Retirement home

A retirement home is a place of residence intended for the elderly.


The usual pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Additional facilities are provided within the building. Often this includes facilities for meals, gathering, recreation, and some form of care. The level of facilities varies enormously.


A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. A nursing home is a place of residence for people who require constant medical care. ...


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. An apartment (or flat) is a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building. ... This article refers to a form of housing. ...


A retirement village, or community, differs from a retirement home in that all residents live separately and autonomously.


See also

  • Armed Forces Retirement Home [1]


 

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