Differences Among Services and Policies in High Privacy or High Service Assisted Living Facilities

The focus of this short analytic report differs in that it attempts to address, at least in an initial fashion, what types of assisted living facilities, among those in our sample, have characteristics that might be appealing to either consumers or policymakers focusing on consumers= needs. These analyses involved comparing the three groups of facilities that the research team considered most representative of the philosophy of assisted living in that they offered more than minimal levels of both services and privacy. [21 PDF pages]