How to Use assisted living in a Sentence

assisted living

noun
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  • These are driven by health care providers to the assisted living facility where someone is waiting.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Along with health care workers, residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities have been in the state's first phase of vaccination.
    — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • McCarrick, 91 and living in an assisted living facility, used a walker to move from a bench at the front of the Dedham courtroom to the defendant’s bar.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Born in Leamington, Ontatio, Rosalie Trombley moved back to the town about five years ago and was in an assisted living facility there at the time of her death.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Alone in an assisted living facility, Dee learned that her husband of more than half a century was dead.
    — Tiana Lowe, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
  • My mother relocated to assisted living near us a few years ago.
    — WSJ, 9 Oct. 2023
  • Olney added that the homeless population in D.C. is aging, so there’s going to be a larger need for nursing and assisted living care in the future.
    — Hadley Green, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • That's what happened after one resident struck three others over several days at Heritage Village, a Mesa assisted living center with more state citations than any others.
    — Caitlin McGlade, The Arizona Republic, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The college has selected dozens of clinical sites for its Wisconsin programs across a mixture of hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities and schools.
    — Journal Sentinel, 5 Jan. 2024

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