For weeks at a time, assisted living residents in wheelchairs on the top level of Gabriel House couldn’t leave their floor, trapped by a broken elevator that management wasn’t in any hurry to fix. Because they couldn’t make it downstairs to the communal dining room,

A woman hospitalized after the Gabriel House fire in Fall River on Sunday died after she was taken off life support, her family confirmed Friday.

The fire broke out the evening of July 13, trapping residents inside and forcing first responders to pull people through windows.

Assisted living centers are rare in Mass, but many families still don’t know what they offer or how they differ from other elder care facilities.

Two funeral homes, and St. Mary's Cathedral, are assisting the families of loved ones killed in the Gabriel House fire.

The family of a resident at the Gabriel House assisted living facility has retained a law firm to investigate the circumstances leading up to the deadly Sunday fire that killed nine people and left dozens injured.

Questions and finger-pointing have increased in the days since a fire at a Massachusetts assisted-living facility killed nine and hurt dozens.