North Lantern

When my aunt first started looking for assisted living, she made one thing clear. She did not want to feel like she was moving into a hospital. She wanted a place where she could still sit on the porch with her coffee, chat with neighbors who felt like family, and keep her dog, a small terrier named Max. That search led us to tour several communities in the St. Louis area, and the ones that stood out were not the sprawling campuses with long hallways and nursing stations. Th