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Assisted Living and Residential Care

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Assisted living (AL) is becoming an increasingly important component of the long-term care continuum. The continued trend is for a greater number of people to choose to reside in assisted living communities (ALC). There are over 36,000 licensed facilities and over 950,000 residents (Robert Mollica, personal communication, 2007).

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    Daniel Haimowitz

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  1. Abington Memorial Hospital, Old York Road 500, Jenkintown, 19046, Pennsylvania, USA

    Pamela Ann Fenstemacher

  2. Dept. Family & Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma, NE. 10th St. 900, Oklahoma City, 73104, Oklahoma, USA

    Peter Winn

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Haimowitz, D. (2011). Assisted Living and Residential Care. In: Fenstemacher, P., Winn, P. (eds) Long-Term Care Medicine. Current Clinical Practice. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-142-4_2

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