Continuing Care Retirement Communities' Response to Residents Aging in Place:

While many administrators of continuing care retirement communities continue to insist that their facilities are for independent residents only, their resident populations are becoming older and frailer, aging-in-place. This paper describes Part 1 of a two part study examining how the C.E.O.s at nineteen Wisconsin C.C.R.C.s responded to a survey about changing characteristics of their resident populations, and how their facility was responding to these changes.