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| Senior
Housing Information
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The Fair Housing Act (FHAct) protects all citizens from discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, handicap or familial status (families with children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal guardians; pregnant women and people trying to get custody of children under 18). |
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| Assisted
Living -
residences or assisted living facilities (ALFs) provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs); coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. |
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| Nursing
Home
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A nursing home, convalescent home, Skilled Nursing Unit
(SNU), care home or rest home provides a type of care of residents: it is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily
living. |
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| Retirement
Communities
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A retirement community, or active adult community, is a very broad, generic term that covers many varieties of housing for retirees and seniors - especially designed or geared for people who no longer work, or restricted to those over a certain
age. It differs from a retirement home which is a single building or small complex where no "common areas" for socializing exist. |
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| Retirement
Home
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A retirement home is a multi-residence housing facility intended for senior citizens. The usual pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of
rooms |
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| Senior
Housing Information
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The Fair Housing Act (FHAct) protects all citizens from discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, handicap or familial status (families with children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal guardians; pregnant women and people trying to get custody of children under 18). |
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| American
Senior Housing
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The American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), established in 1991 as a group of the National Multi Housing Council, and became a non-profit organization ten years later on January 1, 2001.
Members of ASHA are involved in the operation, development and finance of seniors housing - senior apartments, independent living communities, assisted living residences, ongoing care of retirement communities and seniors housing data collection and distribution. The Association has conducted research on topics beneficial to seniors housing owners, lenders, investors, and policymakers. The Association's membership owns and/or manages an estimated 500,000 units of seniors housing related issues in the all U.S states, Canada, and Europe. |
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