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2. Nursing home - Wikipedia

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   A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. [1] Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF) or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms have slightly different meanings to indicate whether the institutions are public or private, and ...

3. Retirement home - Wikipedia

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   A retirement home – sometimes called an old people's home, [1] old folks' home, [2] or old age home, although old people's home can also refer to a nursing home [3] – 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 ...

4. Association Residence Nursing Home - Wikipedia

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   The Association Residence Nursing Home, also called the Association for the Relief of Respectable, Aged and Indigent Females, is a historic building in New York City built from 1881–1883 to the design of Richard Morris Hunt in the Victorian Gothic style. It is located on Amsterdam Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets on the Upper West Side ...

5. Nursing home care in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 2012 the American Association of Retired Persons, in its profiles on long term services and supports in the states, indicated that $5,495 per person is available for home health services, $11,142 for personal care services, $10,710 for aging waiver. The average for nursing facilities is $29,533 per person. [42]

6. Green House Project - Wikipedia

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   The Green House Project is an American national non-profit organization dedicated to creating alternative living environments to traditional nursing home care facilities. The project creates "caring homes for meaningful lives" for elders [1] where residents have private rooms and baths, can move freely through the home, build deep knowing ...

7. Healing environments - Wikipedia

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   Lighting design in healthcare environments is a major factor in creating healing situations. Since the design of healthcare environments is said to influence patient's outcomes, yet high costs prevent most hospitals from renovating or rebuilding, changes in lighting becomes a cost-effective way to improve existing environments.