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Retirement Home
A nursing home can provide full-time medical and nursing care, meals, and a social environment for the aged or ill person unable to fully care for him or herself. That’s the good news; the bad news is that nursing homes can be expensive, can rob a person of individual freedoms, and can, for some, offer an environment unacceptably different from how they have gotten by all of their lives.

Actually, let’s back up for a moment and consider whether a nursing home is necessary. Here are some of the options available to older persons and those with health problems: