Retirement communities, such as the Heirloom Inn, are apartment complexes that provide most of the services found in a fine hotel. Residents occupy their own private apartment, furnished with their own belongings.  They live as they always have, but with many new conveniences.  They are freed from the everyday problems many seniors experience with home maintenance as well as the more pervasive issues of boredom, isolation and the resulting spiritual decline.  By contrast, in retirement communities seniors receive lifestyle enhancing services such as housekeeping, transportation, planned activities and restaurant-style meal services.