How to Use assisted living in a Sentence

assisted living

noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cropsey died in an assisted living facility in the Oakland hills, said his son, Duane Cropsey.
    Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • When my mother-in-law decided to move to assisted living at age 90, in an urban area known for its traffic problems.
    Carolyn Rosenblatt, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • But this summer, much of the tree's foliage floated down to the manicured lawn of the Louisville assisted living community, while the surrounding trees stayed full and green.
    Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2022
  • That would also be built on the same site as Maple Springs’ assisted living facility, expected to open soon.
    Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • The amount of fuel that assisted living facilities must maintain on-site varies with the sizes of the facilities.
    Christine Sexton, sun-sentinel.com, 11 May 2021
  • The 27-year-old now attends thetwo-day GCU program and works at an assisted living facility the other three days during the week.
    Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Half of these cases were residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities in the village, the records show.
    Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Like thousands of others in nursing homes and assisted living centers, Marjorie had spent most of her days and nights alone in her small one-bedroom apartment.
    Matthias Gaffney, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 May 2021
  • During the shut-off, staff tended to nursing home and assisted living residents, many with dementia, Mendez said.
    Kate Ruder, CNN, 11 June 2024
  • Voting for the economy Patricia Hanson's 85-year-old mother, Darlene Berg, has been in hospice and assisted living for the last six weeks, which has relieved her caregiving duties.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 July 2024

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