What Type of Senior
Residence is Right for You?
This Section
Includes:
• Assisted Living Facilities
• Alzheimer’s/Dementia
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES (ALFs)
ALFs provide housing, personalized support services and health care designed
to meet the needs of those who need help with Activities of Daily Living (ADL).
ADLs include assistance with: • Bathing • Dressing • Grooming
• Eating • Ambulation • Transferring • Toileting • Hygiene
• Walking & other similar tasks • Supervision & help with medications
Various Care Levels
ALFs can offer different levels of assistance,
from minimal to comprehensive. The following
are the three types of state licenses for assisted
living facilities.
Care Level: Standard License
Basic Services include, but are not limited to:
• Housing (private, semi-private, rooms,
suites or apartments)
• Meals, special diets and snacks
• 24-hr staff available to supervise residents
• Assistance or help with ADLs
• Assist with medications by a nurse
• Arrange for health care services
• Health monitoring
• Housekeeping
• Help with laundry and maintenance
• Social and leisure activities
• Provide or arrange for transportation to
health care services
• Respite care
Care Level: Extended Congregate
Care (ECC) License
An ALF with an ECC license allows the
ALF to maintain residents who become more
frail than would be permitted with a standard
license in order for the resident to “Age in
Place.”
Services include:
• Limited nursing services and assessments
• Total help with ADLs
• Measurement and recording of vital signs
and weight
• Dietary management, incl. special diets,
monitoring nutrition, food & fluid intake
• Supervise residents with dementia and
cognitive impairments
• Provide or arrange for rehabilitative svcs
• Provide escorts to medical appointments
• Educational programs to promote health
and prevent illness
Many individuals do not need the expensive
and intensive level of care provided
by a nursing home, however, they
cannot continue to live independently.
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