assisted living

[ uh-sis-tid liv-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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): Medicare does not cover the costs of assisting-living facilities.
My grandma is moving to assisting living.
Medicare does not cover the costs of assisting-living facilities.

assisted living

/ əˈsɪstɪd /

1. a living environment for elderly people, in which personal and medical care are supplied
2. ( as modifier )
  private assisted-living apartments

First recorded in 1965–70

Behind the assisted living home is a lot where the soccer field used to be.

In 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.”

A label that will bar him from any job that involves children, and from any “assisted living” home for an adult such as himself.

On Dec. 23, six days shy of the 20th anniversary of her release, Harris died at an assisted-living facility in New Haven, Conn.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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