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Some changes are in store for residents of the Carlisle, a six-story senior living community at 450 E. Ocean Ave., in Lantana.
Senior Lifestyle Corp., owner of the luxury retirement community since March 2011, plans to make adjustments to better meet the needs of aging residents, according to Jerrold H. Frumm, executive vice president. 
“The reality is most people who live at the Carlisle require some care, and a lot of third-party caregivers are used now,” Frumm said during the Sept. 10 meeting of the Lantana Town Council.
Senior Lifestyle won town approval on a plan to reduce the total number of units at the Carlisle and to add amenity space. The senior living home at Ocean Avenue and A1A, which consists of three residential buildings, was originally designed to house 250 independent-living apartments and 60 assisted-living units. With the approved changes, there will be 144 independent units and 54 assisted-living units.
The reduction in units in the western building (for assisted-living residents) would happen when existing first-floor apartments are replaced with common service areas including a dining room, activity and lounge space and administrative offices.
In another building, the reduction of units on the second and third floors will provide some flexibility to accommodate residents who have or develop dementia.
Also winning council approval was a request to put kitchens or microwave ovens in units that don’t have them now.
The Carlisle sits on property once owned by the town. In 1997, when the property was sold, the town drew up restrictions and covenants outlining what could be done there.
— Mary Thurwachter