Ending Stigmatization by using the appropriate language

The issues of disability and people with disabilities have been debated for decades. Progress has been been made and continues to be made, especially with regards to people with mental retardation and mental illness. However, terms such as "Group Home" (to describe where those individuals live) that continue to be used, consciously and unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly, only perpetuate the stigma and ill-treatments of a big segment of our society: the elderly, people with developmental disabilities, with mental illness and other disabling conditions.
The term "Group Home" when used, unequivocally tells us that is where people with disabilities, with other emotional and psychological challenges live. Here is the paradox-we do not call our personal and family homes "Group Home", do we? yet, we live there as a group; whether we call that group a family, a community; whether we call that group the Smith, the Jones, the Mane, the Brown family etc.
So, if we are to have a strong society where all members, individually or as a group, count
and are valuable, let us continue our fight to end all forms of stigmatization. Disability is our common denominator, whether now or later. At some point in our lifetime, we will experience some type of disability, and someone else in addition to, other than family members, will take care of us, assist us and protect us.
So, let us end the use of Group Home to identify the dwelling of people with disabilities.