A 78-year-old widow needs assistance with medications, housekeeping, and laundry, and would like to ...

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Assisted living provides independence, security, and privacy at the same time. These facilities promote independence and physical and psychosocial health. Services in an assisted living facil-ity include medication management, exercise and educational activities, social activities, laundry, assistance with meals and personal care, 24-hour oversight, and housekeeping. Respite care is a service that provides short-term relief or time off for people providing home care to an ill, dis-abled, or frail older adult. Nursing center is a nursing home; this is too early to recommend be-cause the widow wants to maintain independence. Rehabilitation is the use of multiple therapies such as physical, psychological, occupational, speech, and social services to help restore a person to the fullest physical, mental, social, vocational, and economic usefulness possible; this is not appropriate because the widow can provide self-care.