There is plenty of market research behind the design of Heritage and other assisted-living centers.

"People with money are able to go to assisted-living centers, many of them quite luxurious," he said.

She considered an assisted-living center, but instead joined a "virtual retirement community" that provides services to the aging in their Boston homes.

He turned 92 this month and he makes his home at an assisted-living center near Minneapolis.

Ms. Yale is now organizing groups for early stage patients in assisted-living centers and nursing homes.

They can guide consumers to better assisted-living centers and make sure their clients get the proper care.

Now at an assisted-living center, "he is living on his own, a burden to no one," she added.

"I don't know if we are going to win this fight," he told an audience at an assisted-living center in Paramus.

It received a $32 million bond for the construction of an assisted-living center on four acres in North Hills.

The sister with Alzheimer's declined so much mentally that she had to be moved to an assisted-living center.