"The most significant advantage is that you can control how you want to live, knowing that you will have different needs and abilities as you age. You can make these choices while you are able to do so and not depend on family to do so as you become infirm. A continuing care community enables you to make decisions at a time when you are not in crisis, so that when a life-changing event occurs, a plan is in place. It is a plan you made.."