| A retirement community, is also known as active | | | | facilities that cater to the wants and needs of |
| adult community; it is a fairly broad, generic term | | | | retirees, including amenities like clubhouses, arts and |
| which covers many varieties, that of housing for | | | | crafts, swimming pools, boating, golf courses, trails, |
| seniors and retirees and is especially designed or can | | | | active adult retail and also on-site medical facilities. |
| be said geared for people who work no longer, or | | | | An Age-restricted community requires at least one |
| are restricted to those people over a certain age. It | | | | resident who is 55 plus years of age or may be older |
| however differs from a retirement home that is | | | | (occasionally it is 50+ or 60+ years). These |
| merely a single building or even a small complex with | | | | retirement communities are mostly built in warm |
| no common area meant for socializing. | | | | climates, and happen to be very common in places |
| Many retirement communities nowadays are planned | | | | like Arizona, Florida, California, and Texas but now are |
| mainly for that purpose, and also boast of special | | | | increasingly being built around major cities. |