A retirement home was a residential facility for the elderly in retirement. It differed from a nursing home in that on-site medical care was not a priority.
Edmund Trevithick lived in the Dalesview Residential Home in 1968. (PROSE: Nightshade)
After the prison on Fortress Island was closed, it became a retirement home for the compromised ex-UNIT operatives, who would pose a security risk. (AUDIO: The Screaming Skull)
When Edie was looking for a retirement home, she was contacted by the viral advertisement for the Edifice. She was then kidnapped and brought there. After others who had been kidnapped had been rescued, she decided to stay as she did want to live there. (AUDIO: The Forever Trap)
After several women were sent back to 1945 by a Weeping Angel, they wound up in the Golden Years Home for the Elderly retirement home by 2012. (PROSE: Magic of the Angels)
Ben lived in a retirement home in his old age. He and the other residents escaped one day to an old shack so that one of their number, Edna, could perform a strip show. The show was broken up by a group of young people and the old people were taken back to their home. (PROSE: Beguine)