How to Use assisted living in a Sentence

assisted living

noun
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  • The town is home to a variety of adult and assisted living housing.
    — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Only one of them lived in long-term care or assisted living.
    — Joe Carlson, Star Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
  • There was no thought of assisted living in an outside home nor of nursing homes.
    — Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Then, they may be forced to move her back into an assisted living facility due to the steep costs.
    — Alicia Diaz, STAT, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Hospice was notified and he was sent back to his room in the assisted living center.
    — oregonlive, 3 Dec. 2020
  • His death, at an assisted living center, was confirmed by his son Rod Lurie.
    — New York Times, 9 June 2022
  • The overall count of cases at the state’s nursing, assisted living and adult foster homes could be far higher.
    — oregonlive, 4 Apr. 2020
  • When most of my mother’s friends had moved to assisted living homes, they were still connected, heart-to-heart, by their telephone lines.
    — Beth Thames | Bethmthames@gmail.com, al, 15 Sep. 2021
  • His death, at an assisted living center, was confirmed by his son Rod.
    — Sam Roberts, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2022
  • Fire department records show the department was called to the assisted living center 133 times the year before.
    — oregonlive, 3 Oct. 2021
  • Some assisted living centers may have been counted as homes; researchers had no way to tell.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Cropsey died in an assisted living facility in the Oakland hills, said his son, Duane Cropsey.
    — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Four of the deaths were in residents of long-term care and assisted living facilities.
    — Christopher Snowbeck, Star Tribune, 16 Aug. 2020
  • State figures show that 2,221 virus deaths have come from nursing homes, group homes and assisted living facilities, more than half of the state’s death toll.
    — Ben Leonard, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The assisted living facility has been the site of 71 cases and seven deaths, an increase of 29 cases and three deaths from the week before.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2020
  • All year round, Nyaigoti spends 30 hours a week as a home health aide at an assisted living facility.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2021
  • The death, at an assisted living facility, was confirmed by her son, Michael Cruse Moss.
    — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The 95-year-old dementia patient lay asleep in her room at Close to Home assisted living in Middletown, unaware of the danger at her door.
    — John Caniglia, cleveland.com, 23 June 2019
  • But this year, the 43-year-old lost her job working at an assisted living facility.
    — Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The car had driven into the side of an assisted living facility, but the coroner's office has not released a cause of death.
    — Lawrence Andrea, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Pasler is a chef at an assisted living community and joins the Wingaddicts on their tastings.
    — Darcie Ortique, courant.com, 13 Nov. 2020
  • The Cincinnati Enquirer reported in August that the former site of the venue was set to have an assisted living center, apartments, and homes built on it.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 8 Nov. 2021
  • On a rainy day in Boston this week, Ed Oliver Bohld stood outside the window of his longtime girlfriend's room at her assisted living home.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Becquer, who was in assisted living in Hopkins, was 88.
    — Joel Rippel, Star Tribune, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Swan died March 4 at age 90 in an assisted living facility in Clearfield.
    — Sean P. Means, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Saint John's moved people into 24 assisted living and 50 nursing care units on the building's lower floors this month.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2020
  • Over a third, 6,894 in the latest tally, lived in nursing homes, rest homes, and assisted living facilities.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Now, across the country, assisted living homes are being shut to friends and family members.
    — Madison Smalstig, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2020
  • Expenses tend to decline throughout retirement, Look says, with the exception of those who need long-term care, which can include part-time aides, live-in nurses, assisted living facilities or full-time nursing homes.
    — Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The new composting requirement for Austin extends to apartments, condos, non-state dorms, assisted living facilities and nursing homes.
    — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Sep. 2024

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