What’s a continuing care retirement community?

Are you considering a visit to a seniors’ residence or retirement home in anticipation of a move for yourself or your loved ones? Have you considered a continuing care retirement community? Here’s what you need to know.

The Concept

Continuing care retirement communities(CCRCs) are characterized by an ability to adapt from independent living and assisted livingtomemorycare and nursing home services. It allows the residents to age in place, with supports varying according to their shifting levels of mobility and autonomy. The accessibility options may be in a single building or in a complex depending ontheestablishment.

The Advantages

CCRCs provide residents with plenty of flexibility and allow for adaptive supporttomeetthem wherever they are on life’s journey. It ensures long-term care by enabling occupants to stay in the same facility even as their health and abilities decline. In conventional senior care, the residentmustchange institutions as they lose their autonomy, further complicating their condition. The consistency provided byCCRCsminimizes this disruption.

Talk to a seniors’ residential consultant to find a suitable retirement home in your area.