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Also known as seniors home, homes for the aged, old home, retirement properties, retirement village, old age home, senior housing, retirement housing

housing facility intended for senior citizens

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A retirement home in Israel in 2010 A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home, old folks' home, or old age home, although old people's home can also refer to a nursing home – or rest home, is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly. Typically, each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms with an en-suite bathroom. Additional facilities are provided within the building. This can include facilities for meals, gatherings, recreation activities, and some form of health or hospital 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.

A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. Retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “retirement home” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.