Difference between senior apartments and nursing homes:
Senior apartments are apartment-type senior residences with catering, cleaning and sanitation, cultural and recreational, and health care service systems, and are comprehensively managed types of residences. Both reflecting the elderly home care, but also enjoy a variety of services provided by the community of senior housing, belonging to the category of institutional care. In the country's major cities, senior citizen apartments have been very common, Changzhou Jingri Ankang senior citizen apartments are more prominent, and the emergence of low, medium and high-grade grading.
Nursing home, mainly for the elderly to provide collective living, and has a relatively complete supporting service facilities. Nursing home old age as one of the social ways of old age, due to its specialization, human culture to meet the needs of the elderly for life care, nursing rehabilitation and spiritual care and other aspects.
Nursing homes are mostly privately-run institutions for the elderly, which are self-financing commercial services; senior citizen apartments are built by the government and social forces in accordance with market principles for the elderly to live in the unit building, the area of the unit in the unit building has a large or small, the occupants can buy or rent. Elderly apartment buildings are equipped with medical offices, activity rooms, gymnasiums and canteens, equipped with various service personnel.
The similarity between senior apartments and nursing homes is that both of them are based on individual fees, unlike welfare relief type of social welfare institutions; the difference is that the nursing home is a collective accommodation in the hospitalization of the elderly, while living in senior apartments is independent of living in a unit of the elderly; senior apartments can be bought, sold and rented units, while the nursing home can only be rented apartments.