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~o <br />Housing Discussion Circle: <br />Housing discussion session participants included Karen Daniels of Carol Woods <br />Retirement Center, Laura Martin of Alters Wynwood & Clare Bridge of Chapel <br />Hill, Betty Stevens of Brookshire Nursing Center, Jack Chestnut of the Orange <br />County Advisory Board on Aging, Tara Fikes of Orange County Housing and <br />Community Development and Lane Sarver. <br />Moderator Jan Wassel, Director of the Gerontology graduate program at UNC- <br />Greensboro, started the discussion by introducing the topic at hand: the transition <br />from independent to nursing care. She began by asking the representatives from <br />different levels of care and consultants to introduce themselves. <br />Laura Martin of Alters Wynwood and <br />Clare Bridge, an assisted living and <br />memory care living facility, described <br />the meaning of the term "assisted <br />living." According to Ms. Martin, <br />assisted living has many meanings. <br />Alters Wynwood and Clare Bridge <br />offers a variety of services for people <br />who are unsafe living alone. Their <br />services include medication assistance, <br />assistance with dressing, and Panelists and forum participants discuss the <br />incontinence care. Their services are housing issues faced by the elderly citizens of <br />not one-on-one, instead they are one- Orange County. <br />on-ten to one-on-twenty. When a resident moves to the facility, an assessment is <br />conducted to determine which services they will need. <br />Betty Stevens of Brookshire Nursing Center in Hillsborough described services at <br />her organization as "skilled nursing." They provide long-term care or short-term <br />rehabilitation care. The level of care can be at any level and may include <br />restorative nursing, dietary services, and more depending on the need of the <br />resident. Most of their residents are not very high functioning. <br />Karen Daniels of Carol Woods Retirement Community described the level of care <br />provided by her organization as independent care through skilled nursing. They <br />operate four individual retirement centers in Chapel Hill. Residents pay an entry <br />Page 7 of 18 <br />