The difference between "assistive living" and "assisted living"? I've started to see the former recently but hadn't noticed it before.

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Christine44 Asked January 6, 2024

The difference between "assistive living" and "assisted living"? I've started to see the former recently but hadn't noticed it before.

Just started to notice descriptions of senior residences that include both terms. I'm putting this question under Assisted Living as I don't see "Assistive" on the topics here. I put this into Google: What is difference between assisted living and assistive living, but nothing relevant came up. I guess this means "Assistive Living" is a new term in senior housing? Thanks.

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Thanks, everyone, for contributing to the discussion. I've learned a thing or two.

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Media verbiage, makes zero difference.

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Probably looks better on a glossy brochure. More modern.

Or I guess 'ive' is ongoing where as 'ed' is in the past. Maybe the grammer police had a win?

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I'm not sure that they are one and the same. My Reason: I've come across some places that advertise themselves as offering both Assistive and Assisted Living (like one after the other, separate items on a list). I think Alva's research on the Internet (more than I delved into the term) is probably correct.

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Functionally, they are the same. Assistive vs assisted is -- in broad terms -- an advertising/marketing way of differentiating between human or [usually] technology interaction.

A quick example: if a person cannot properly take the prescribed medications, they can pay to have a person help them take them properly. Or they may pay to purchase a medication dispenser that helps them take them properly. Either way, they have to have help taking them. One is passive and one is active; both assist the person with their medications.

...so on and so forth for all ADLs and EADLs.

I'd personally never pay to have that which I can set up at home as assistIVE living for assistED living prices.

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"Assistive technology is an umbrella term covering the systems and services related to the delivery of assistive products and services. Assistive products maintain or improve an individual’s functioning and independence, thereby promoting their well-being."

There you go, directly from the internet. Apparently "assisTIVE " means use of helping devices. Who knew. Good question, because I sure didn't.

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Helping devices eg an electric bed or 4 wheel frame. Ho hum.

We are not yet in the full robotic mode of the imagined future... Where (hopefully) my thickened water may be virtually altered to appear as a cocktail🍹

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Grammatically, one is active and one is passive. Functionally, they are the same.

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There is no difference at all between Assisted and Assistive.

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The difference between "assistive living" and "assisted living"? I've started to see the former recently but hadn't noticed it before.

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