Aging services provider Ecumen (http://www.ecumen.org/housing_senior.html) that is designed to be an integral part of the larger community, with its caf, chapel and meeting rooms open for use by community groups.
"Aging is all about living, even at the very end of life," said Leah Killian-Smith, who is the Ecumen leader at The Villages of North Branch. "We're eliminating the institutionalism and
isolation that assisted living (http://www.ecumen.org/changing-aging/