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Thurston Woods Village is a nonprofit retirement community that offers a wide variety of housing options. Located in Sturgis, Mich., the center provides various independent apartments and homes to seniors citizens. Additionally, it offers a variety of health care and assisted living services. It provides physical, speech and occupational therapies on-campus. It also offers 24-hour licensed nursing care, wound care, and medication dispensing and treatment services to its residents. It organizes special events and musical programs and monthly birthday parties. It also supports clubs, such as the ladies lunch and the men s breakfast club. Thurston Woods Village is affiliated with the Mennonite Health Services. The center comprises a 100-plus-bed nursing center, 90-plus-bed home for the aged and 30-plus-unit apartment complex.

Van Wert Manor offers behavioral health, and long- and short-term stays, and physical, occupational and speech therapy programs to senior citizens. It also offers hospice services, respite care, and psychiatry and psychological services to patients. The organization has private and semiprivate rehabilitation rooms with televisions, licensed beauty salons and barbershops, telephones, and private smoking and family lounges. The center also has outdoor patio and studio rooms. It organizes various programs, such as youth services, housing, child development, family resources and teen talk programs for teens. The family resources program includes various services, such as foster assistance to seniors, homelessness intervention, patient aides and family development. It provides various services, such as companionship, supervision, bathing, dressing, toileting and meal preparation. The medical center is located in Van Wert, Ohio, and additionally provides 24-hour skilled nursing assistance and emergency care services.

Lutheran Homes is one of the leading continuing care retirement communities in the United States. A nonprofit organization, it has been operational for more than 60 years. A social ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, it is affiliated with the Indiana Association of Homes and Services for the Aging and Kendallville Chamber of Commerce. Located in Fort Wayne, Ind., the center provides several services and facilities, such as Medicare-certified health care solutions, Alzheimer s disease and dementia care, private and semiprivate rooms, transportation solutions, a therapy pool, restorative wellness center, and beauty salon and barbershop. Spread on more than 20 acres of land, Lutheran Homes offers a wide variety of residential living options, such as one- and two-bedroom cottages and deluxe and studio apartments. Its amenities include dining halls, walking trails, gardens, whirlpool and fitness rooms, computer access and training, woodworking shops, crafts and ceramic facilities, chapel and pastoral care services, family events, and special interest clubs.