Whether it is the family home of many decades or a hasty move from assisted living to a higher level of care, your parent has established relationships with people and some sense of continuity of place in the familiar setting.
The definition of sanguine is someone or something the color of blood or a reddish color. An example of sanguine is rosy cheeks. of the color of blood; ruddy: said esp. of complexions.
Word Origin and History for sanguine Expand. adj. blood-red, late 14c. (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French sanguin (fem. sanguine), from Latin sanguineus of blood, also bloody, bloodthirsty, from sanguis (genitive sanguinis) blood (see sanguinary). Meaning cheerful, hopeful, confident first attested c.1500, because these qualities were thought in medieval physiology to spring from an excess of blood as one of the four humors. Also in Middle English as a noun, type of red cloth (early 14c.).