Senior Housing
These can be a single multiunit building or multiple multiunit apartment buildings, condominiums, or cooperatives, or a complex of single family homes, duplexes, or mobile homes, which are restricted to persons over a specified age (defined variously as 55, 60, 62, or 65). These are not originally planned to include activities, supportive assistance, personal and health-related care, or staff trained in aging issues. However, many have incrementally added amenities, some supportive assistance, trained staff, and information about personal and health care as residents have aged in place and require help to continue living where they are. As more and more older people move into senior housing at very late ages, newly constructed senior housing developments often anticipate the frail characteristics of its residents and, during the design stage, will incorporate physical design features, a resident advisor, specially trained managers and staff, and regular communication with community-based aging services organizations in order that residents' needs can be immediately accommodated. Monthly charges or rents do not include the costs of supportive, personal, or health services; and residents make private arrangements to receive these services from community-based organizations. As the personal care and health services are not provided by the housing development, senior housing does not require licensure by the New York State Department of Health. Senior housing is a "need-driven" option, chosen by seniors (or their adult caregiver children) who need a supportive environment when frailties have compromised their ability to continue living safely and successfully in their own homes.
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