assisted living
housing or living arrangements for elderly, infirm, or disabled people, in which housekeeping, meals, medical care, and other assistance is available to residents as needed (often used attributively): My grandma is moving to assisting living.Medicare does not cover the costs of assisting-living facilities.
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Many Filipinos work in the health care sector or in other essential, high-risk employment, like in assisted living facilities.
Filipino Residents Have Been Hit Hard by COVID – But No One Knows Just How Hard | Maya Srikrishnan | February 1, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoIncluded in the piece were two operators of assisted living facilities who fit medical professionals into the budget.
Terrible Year, Great Discoveries: Our Favorite Stories of 2020 | Randy Dotinga | December 24, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoIn the last four decades, demand for assisted living has soared.
“We Don’t Even Know Who Is Dead or Alive”: Trapped Inside an Assisted Living Facility During the Pandemic | by Ava Kofman | November 30, 2020 | ProPublicaNights were spent caring for the elderly at an assisted living home in southern Maine.
She Was Afraid of Her Lawyer. Then the Text Messages Started. | by Samantha Hogan, The Maine Monitor | October 8, 2020 | ProPublicaOver time, though, the assisted living facilities have accepted frailer residents.
Morning Report: A Deadly Lack of Medical Expertise in Senior Care Homes | Voice of San Diego | September 28, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Behind the assisted living home is a lot where the soccer field used to be.
Pablo Escobar’s Private Prison Is Now Run by Monks for Senior Citizens | Jeff Campagna | June 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 2013, an elderly woman collapsed at an assisted living facility in Bakersfield, California, and a nurse called 911.
Moments later he did so again at an assisted living facility named for the Hebrew word “peace.”
Passover Week Hate Crimes Evoke Horrible History | Thane Rosenbaum | April 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA label that will bar him from any job that involves children, and from any “assisted living” home for an adult such as himself.
Autism and Child Pornography: A Toxic Combination | Eustacia Cutler | August 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTOn Dec. 23, six days shy of the 20th anniversary of her release, Harris died at an assisted-living facility in New Haven, Conn.
Scarsdale Doctor Killer Jean Harris Found Redemption in Prison | Michael Daly | December 31, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
British Dictionary definitions for assisted living
/ (əˈsɪstɪd) /
a living environment for elderly people, in which personal and medical care are supplied
(as modifier): private assisted-living apartments
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