Retirement Community in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Continuing Care Retirement Community - CCRC
What is a Continuing Care Retirement Community?
Generally, a continuing care retirement community is a large facility of campus which contains all the various levels of care: independent living, personal care/assisted living and nursing care and rehabilitation.

Once a person enters the retirement community, he or she can move back and forth among the various levels of care, according to need. Although the resident may have to physically move from an apartment to a nursing care unit-for rehabilitation of a broken hip for example-he or she would remain within the same retirement community setting and could potentially return to an apartment again, if able.

The advantages of this arrangement are many and reflect the continuum of care concept. Persons entering such a community are assured of having their care needs met, regardless of how those needs may change. There is a great deal of comfort and security in the knowledge that they are now part of a system which will allow them to "age in place."

Presbyterian SeniorCare's Longwood at Oakmont is a CCRC and also has the distinction of being this region's only Retirement Resort™. The Longwood campus is located just one mile from Presbyterian SeniorCare's Oakmont campus and contains 262 independent living units, a 30-unit assisted living facility and a 58-bed skilled nursing facility, which also has a specialized Alzheimer's care Woodside Program unit.

Many older adults prefer to remain in their own homes, but receive the same level of continuing care associated with a CCRC. Presbyterian SeniorCare's newest program, Longwood At Home has been designed to offer the "Best of Both Worlds". Longwood At Home is the first CCRC Without Walls in western Pennsylvania. This all inclusive program gives its Members the assurance of personal care coordination and long term care services delivered in the privacy and dignity of their own home.