The CHOICE Center at North Village

The CHOICE Center is an affordable rental housing development for elders aged 62 years or older. The CHOICE Center is managed by the Choice Housing Opportunities for Intergenerational and Community Endeavors, Inc., a non-profit organization of the Chelmsford Housing Authority. This development consists of 37 units: 32 one-bedroom units and 5 two-bedroom units.

The two-bedroom units recognize the changing definition of senior housing. This definition includes: elderly parents caring for a disabled adult child; two elderly siblings living together to support each other; a senior person caring for his or her elderly parent; an elderly couple, one of whom would otherwise have to be placed in a long-term care facility causing a severe economic hardship; a resident requiring a live-in medical aide.

The CHOICE Center is located on an existing campus that has both state and federal housing programs as well as within close proximity to the Chelmsford Senior Center. The available services on this campus include 24-hour on-call emergency care, vendor-contracted homemaking services, an on-site service coordinator, a brown bag food program, free prescription delivery service, and a full service beauty salon.