According to a national survey, the occupancy rates of assisted living facilities is at nearly 95 percent.  Learn more in this article from West Fair Online.

The 2009 overview reported nearly all assisted living facilities surveyed provide wellness, social and recreational activities. 

To heighten the longevity of residential stays, facilities are catering to individual resident requests.

“We get a change in residents, so we go to great lengths to ask new residents what hobbies or interests they have that we don’t necessarily have here,” Andujar said. “We offered a low-impact exercise program established years ago by the Office of the Aging … and recently had a representative come back in, retrain our staff and found tremendous improvements with residents being able to walk and with balance issues.”

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