The difference between apartments for the elderly and nursing homes:
1. Different natures
Apartments for the elderly are apartment-style residences for the elderly with catering, sanitation, culture and entertainment, and medical care. The service system is a comprehensive management residential type. Elderly residences that can not only reflect the elderly's home care but also enjoy various services provided by society belong to the category of institutional elderly care.
Nursing homes mainly provide collective living for the elderly and have relatively complete supporting service facilities. Nursing home care is one of the ways of social care for the elderly. Due to its specialization and human culture, it meets the needs of the elderly for life care, nursing rehabilitation and spiritual care.
2. Prices are different
The price of apartments for the elderly may be higher than that of nursing homes. However, compared with the two, the services of senior apartments are more comprehensive, generally equipped with catering, cleaning, cultural entertainment, and medical care service systems. Nursing homes are generally provided by rural institutions to some elderly people with no income or five-guarantee households, and they need to wait in advance.
Advantages of apartments for the elderly:
1. It can reduce the psychological burden on children
In today’s families, most of them have one child. In a highly competitive society, children are often too busy making money to support their families and have no time to take care of the elderly. After the elderly live in senior apartments, their children can worry less about the elderly and have more energy to work and live.
2. It allows the elderly to live a regular life
In the elderly apartments, the elderly people have regular work and rest times. Three meals a day are served in the elderly apartments according to the order. Meals are provided, and sometimes activities are organized in the elderly apartments. This allows the elderly to develop the habit of living a regular life, which is very beneficial to the health of the elderly.