In recent years, many options have emerged to suit older persons' different housing and health care needs and lifestyle preferences. Yet older people and their families often do not know that these choices exist. Pennsylvania nonprofit organizations are in the forefront of sponsoring a full range of innovative housing with services, personal care and nursing homes, community service programs, and continuing care retirement communities. Nonprofit facilities emphasize individual attention, high quality services and supportive environments which provide opportunities to maintain independence, dignity and self-respect. The sense of community that prevails provides individuals with a sense of belonging and the reassurance of knowing you are not alone.
Nonprofit facilities encourage residents to be as active and independent as their abilities permit.
They recognize that long-term care, housing and community services should be tailored to individual needs. Nonprofit homes and services are governed by community-based boards of trustees who are all volunteers. These men and women donate their time and talents to ensure that a nonprofit organization's approach to caring for older people responds to local needs. They turn any surplus income back into improving facilities or expanding services. Click here for links to agencies offering more information.