Assisted Living Facilities & Mass

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For your experience, do most assisted/senior living facilities have daily Mass? If not, do they have communion services?
Why or why not?
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In the immediate area, the assisted living facilities that want it have one Mass or Communion service during the week. Whether it will be a Mass or a Communion service depends upon whether a priest or a deacon is available to go that particular week.

Why not every day? Shortage of priests and deacons.
 
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Assisted living in my area are not Catholic facilities. So they would not offer mass at all.
 
Not even if a sizable portion of the residents requested it?
 
They don’t, but many have buses that will take residents to mass.
 
Busing our residents wouldn’t work well.
With medical/mental challenges, many would not be able to handle it or be ready on time, etc.
 
The only way you reliably have a Mass in those is to have them run by Catholics who are buddy buddy with the local parishes so they get all the Catholic families sending their elderly loved ones there. Also, these places tend to be close to churches.
The one my mother died in was literally across the street from the church. You could see it out the window. They have a whole chapel in there and have Mass and communion regularly.

I’m pretty sure some of the other facilities in town don’t see priests so often.
 
Where I live most of the people are not Catholic. At the senior living facilities there is a rotation during the week where an EMHC or a deacon may offer a communion service and a priest will offer mass.
 
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