1.   An emerging trend is for hospitals, assisted living facilities and nursing homes to form alliances for dealing with managed care groups.

2.   Assisted living facilities are licensed to house Type A or Type B residents.

3.   Boomers who have placed their parents in assisted living facilities, nursing homes and other senior residences say they want to control their own old-age destiny.

4.   A couple at an assisted living facility earlier this year.

5.   Early this year, the family sold her condo to raise money and took her to an assisted living facility, where she fell and broke her hip.

6.   First, he helped his mother in Chicago move from a house to a condo to an assisted living facility and, finally, to a nursing home.

7.   If a person requires long-term nursing care around the clock, many states prohibit them from being in an assisted living facilities.

8.   In some cases, an assisted living facility may share a building or campus-like setting with a nursing home.

9.   Jennings, who resides in an assisted living facility in Framingham, could not be reached for comment.

10.   Larger assisted living facilities can take in millions.