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What is a Life Plan Community?

It is a simple promise with a long name: a place where you can live independently now, and know that every level of care you might ever need is already here, on one campus, waiting quietly in the wings. No second move. No scramble in a crisis. Here is what that means, and why it changes everything about how these years feel.

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An aerial view of the entrance to The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place, a Life Plan Community in Buckhead, Atlanta
The Short Answer

One community for the whole of life

A Life Plan Community brings independent living and every level of health care together in one place, so a resident can move through life's changes without ever moving away from home.

You may also hear it called a Continuing Care Retirement Community, or CCRC. The name is older; the idea is the same. What sets it apart from a standalone assisted living or memory care community is a single word: continuity.

Life Plan Community

The current term for a community offering independent living alongside a full continuum of on-site health care, under one roof and one plan.

CCRC

Continuing Care Retirement Community, the same concept by its traditional name. If you are researching continuing care in Atlanta, this is what you are looking at.

The Continuum

The connected path of care, from fully independent living through skilled nursing, that a resident can move along as needs change, without leaving the community.

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See the continuum for yourself

The idea of a Life Plan Community is easy to describe and even easier to feel in person. Tell us a little about your family, and we will show you how care flows from one neighborhood to the next here in Buckhead.

  • Understand your options. Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Rehabilitation, and Skilled Nursing, and how a resident moves among them.
  • Plan ahead, not in a crisis. The families who explore early are the ones who never have to decide in a hurry.
  • No pressure, ever. Your inquiry goes straight to our community team here in Buckhead.
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The Continuum of Care

Five levels of care, one address

A Life Plan Community is built around a connected path of care. A resident enters wherever they are today, and moves along it only if and when their needs change. At The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place, that path looks like this.

1

Independent Living

For those who want a maintenance-free lifestyle rich with amenities, culture, and company, while living fully on their own terms. This is where the Peachtree Hills Place community begins.

2

Assisted Living The Terraces

A helping hand with the daily tasks, bathing, dressing, medication, and getting around, delivered by Care Partners who protect each Member's independence rather than replace it.

3

Memory Care The Terraces

Secure, specialized households for those living with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia, with evidence-based programming that supports brain health and meets each Member where they are.

4

Short-Term Rehabilitation The Terraces

Focused therapy after a hospital stay, surgery, or illness, designed to restore strength and confidence and return a resident to their fullest possible independence.

5

Skilled Nursing The Terraces

Around-the-clock licensed nursing care for those with ongoing medical needs, delivered with the same warmth and dignity that defines every neighborhood here.

The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place is the Health Services neighborhood of the community, holding four of these five levels. Whatever tomorrow asks, the answer is already down the hall.

Why It Matters

What continuity actually gives a family

The value of a Life Plan Community is not obvious until you have watched a family go without one. Here is what the continuum quietly protects.

No Second Move

Home stays home

When care needs change, most families face a wrenching search and a second relocation, often at the worst possible moment. Here, a change in care is a change in neighborhood, not in address. The dining room, the friends, and the familiar faces all remain.

No Crisis Decisions

Plans made calmly, in advance

The hardest care decisions are the ones made in a hospital hallway with hours to spare. Because every level of care is already arranged, a Life Plan Community lets families plan ahead and act calmly when the time comes.

One Care Team

Everyone knows your story

Moving between providers means starting over each time, new charts, new faces, new explanations. On a single campus, a resident's history, preferences, and relationships travel with them from one level of care to the next.

Couples Stay Close

Together, even when needs differ

When two people need different levels of care, a Life Plan Community keeps them on the same campus rather than in different facilities across town. Partners remain part of each other's daily lives.

The clubhouse lobby and entrance at The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place in Buckhead
The Difference

A community, not a facility

A standalone assisted living or memory care community can care for one chapter of life. A Life Plan Community is built for all of them. That distinction shows up in the moments that matter most.

Standalone community
A Life Plan Community
Care needs outgrow the community, forcing a move
Care grows with the resident, on one campus
A new provider means starting over
One team carries your story throughout
Rehabilitation happens somewhere else
Recovery happens at home, then back to daily life
Couples can be separated by differing needs
Partners stay on the same campus
One Campus, Many Homes

Where the continuum comes to life

The promise of a Life Plan Community is easiest to picture in the places themselves, each one a different chapter, all within the same gates.

The dining room at The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place
A Shared Table Dining, culture, and company that carry through every level of care.
A Care Partner with a Member at The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place
Care That Follows You From a helping hand to skilled nursing, delivered by people who know you.
A view over Buckhead from The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place
Grounds to Call Your Own A gracious Buckhead setting that stays constant as life changes.
Questions, Answered

Life Plan Communities, explained

What is a Life Plan Community?

A Life Plan Community is a senior living community that offers independent living alongside a full continuum of on-site health care, including assisted living, memory care, rehabilitation, and skilled nursing. A resident can move among these levels of care as their needs change, all without leaving the community.

The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place is the Health Services neighborhood of such a community in the heart of Buckhead, Atlanta.

What is the difference between a Life Plan Community and a CCRC?

There is no practical difference. Life Plan Community is the current term for what was traditionally called a Continuing Care Retirement Community, or CCRC. Both describe a community that combines independent living with a continuum of on-site care. If you are researching continuing care in Atlanta, the two terms refer to the same model.

What levels of care does the continuum include?

The full continuum spans five levels: Independent Living, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Short-Term Rehabilitation, and Skilled Nursing. A resident enters at whatever level fits them today and moves along the continuum only if their needs change.

The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place provides the Health Services levels, Assisted Living, Memory Care, Short-Term Rehabilitation, and Skilled Nursing, on one Buckhead campus.

Why does a continuum of care matter?

It protects families from the two hardest parts of aging: the second move and the crisis decision. When every level of care is already in place, a change in needs becomes a change in neighborhood rather than a wrenching relocation, and families can plan ahead instead of deciding in a hospital hallway.

It also keeps one care team, one set of relationships, and one familiar setting constant throughout.

Do you have to start in independent living to join?

No. The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place welcomes Members directly into Assisted Living, Memory Care, Short-Term Rehabilitation, and Skilled Nursing, whether or not they began in independent living. Our team will help you understand the options that fit your family and your timeline.

Are there Life Plan Communities in Atlanta?

Yes. The Terraces at Peachtree Hills Place is part of a Life Plan Community in Peachtree Hills, a quiet residential pocket in the heart of Buckhead, just east of Peachtree Road and minutes from Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. It offers a full continuum of luxury senior living and care in one of Atlanta's most established neighborhoods.

Plan Ahead With Confidence

Come see what continuity feels like

The best time to understand a Life Plan Community is before you need one. Reach out, and we will walk you through the continuum here in Buckhead, at your pace.

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