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Assisted Living: Aging in Place
August 5th, 2009 Posted by: admin
For the nation’s growing number of elderly, assisted living facilities have become popular alternatives to nursing homes. Most people move into assisted living when they need just a little care, or simply don’t want to manage a house. But then people age, they get more frail, they develop Alzheimer’s disease.
Ruth Elroy, 87, is a resident at an assisted living apartment facility in Phoenix, Arizona. Her daughter, Cindy Maracay, says assisted living allows her mother to live with a degree of comfort she could not find in a nursing home. “It’s dignity. It’s independence. It’s freedom to shape your own lifestyle. That’s what assisted living is supposed to be about. It’s not a nursing home,” she says.
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