They receive three meals a day in a common dining room and share many common areas with other residents.
The preliminary ideas call for a common dining room as well as studio space and rooms for public performances.
"No," Mr. Cohen said, before motioning quietly toward all six Alzheimer's sufferers, eating dinner together in a common dining room.
Corporate housing is often a group of apartments in a building, or a stand-alone apartment, and typically does not include the common dining room, room service or on-site concierge found in hotels.
Before the 1860s the options were either living in a hotel, with its dreaded common dining room, or a boarding house, about as homelike as a railroad sleeper car.
Planned amenities for the housing project include a common dining room, a library and a fitness room, all of which will be on the second floor and lead out to a landscaped deck.
The apartment also has a kitchenette equipped with new appliances (a two-burner stove, microwave and sink) so Mrs. Moran can cook her own meals when she does not want to eat in the common dining room.
Assisted-living residences, which have proliferated in recent years, have small apartments that residents can furnish with their own belongings, along with a common dining room where meals are served, a nurse's office where prescription drugs are dispensed and activity rooms for socializing.
You get, apart from the privacy of your own living space (who needs a roommate at 80?), a common dining room, housekeeping service and activities with other residents to relieve isolation.
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