National directory of retirement facilities.

Comprehensive state-by-state listing (including Puerto Rico) of over 12,000 retirement facilities taken from state-licensing agencies, advocacy groups, and religious and fraternal organizations. Each entry covers name, address, phone number, contact person, type of facility, and capacity. Facility types are grouped into 1) personal care providing supervised environment, 2) congregate care or semi-independent living, 3) independent living, and 4) multiple care or combination of the first three. As such, this doesn't go much beyond a directory and thus offers little help in choosing a retirement place, unlike National Continuing Care Directory ( LJ 6/15/84) or Directory of Life Care Communities (Wilson, 1981), which detail fees, care level, and other services. The high price also limits this to large libraries. Victor P. Gendrano, Los Angeles Cty. P.L. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.