Elderly residents – some in wheelchairs and some dependent on oxygen tanks – were blinded by deadly smoke as they tried to escape an assisted-living facility in Fall River, Massachusetts, which caught fire Sunday evening.

A 10th victim has died following a fire at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility earlier this week. Officials said Thursday that 66-year-old Brenda Cropper died the previous evening. She had

Assisted living centers are rare in Mass, but many families still don’t know what they offer — or what they don’t.