The elements in this design create a homelike environment.

"So the symbolism of a homelike environment can provide an important sense of stability while you're going through this process of having to recast yourself."

The vast majority of nursing homes in this country provide neither a homelike environment, nor good nursing care, he said.

The homelike environment allows the children and families we serve to remain comfortable and relaxed while receiving the care and training necessary to make the final transition to home.

And while many of them require some help in activities like dressing and bathing, they cling to their independence and cherish the homelike environment of assisted-living quarters.

There will also be a cosmetic overhaul that will convert three hospital units to create an open homelike environment.

"And you do that through making their life as normal and their environment as close to a normalized, homelike environment as possible."

A private living room, with a sofa and love seat, was set up to create a homelike environment.

The goal of the Morrison Dorms is to create a comfortable, homelike, family-style, Christian environment for students who live away from home.

But the school can become a homelike environment, which makes the switch to junior high more difficult.