Types of Assisted Living

 

The types of senior living and assisted living fall between an independent living community and a nursing home, in terms of levels of care offered. A typical assisted living home might offer 24-hour personal care monitoring and support services like medication administration or bathing, while providing more freedom and privacy than a nursing home.

 

Depending upon the state location of the assisted living facility, the most common types offered are three types:

• Assisted Living Facility Type I & Type II

• Small Health Care Facility - Type N

 

Type I - Assisted living facility

The facility provides a safe and clean living place with three meals a day. A resident may require minimal assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), including significant assistance with up to two ADL's.

 

Residents in a Type I facilities:

• Evacuate the facility under his own power (be mobile).

• Have stable health and free from any communicable disease.

• May receive assistance with medications or have medications administered by a nurse.

• May receive home health services through individual contract with home health agency.

• Receives 24-hour general monitoring, 7 days a week.

• May receive general nursing care according to facility policy.

• Participate in developing a service plan

 

Type II - Assisted living facility

The facility provides full assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs).

 

Residents in a Type II facilities:

• May require the assist of one person for transfers or to evacuate.

• May receive assistance with medication or have medications administered by a nurse.

• Receive general nursing care from facility staff.

• Be free of communicable diseases that could be transmitted to others through the normal course of activities.

• Receive 24 hour individualized personal and health-related services, 7 days a week.

• May receive home health services through individual contract with a home health agency.

• Participate in developing a service plan

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Assisted living facilities strive to include homelike qualities. Studies show that two factors affect the older adult to successfully adjust to a new surroundings:

1. Their personal needs get met

2. The previous home and the new surrounding has similar characteristics and environmental connections.

 

The more autonomy and choice a resident is given, the less health complications than facilities where choices were less frequent.

 

We will find the right place for your loved one by searching the number of beds, giving you an idea as to the size of the facility..The physical characteristics range from a house or small building with just a few beds to a large senior living campus with multiple buildings and hundreds of beds.

 

Most senior living facilities offer a high level of privacy. Despite the 24-hour trained staff, residents find the same amount of privacy as they would within a standard apartment complex. Decorated and personally arranged rooms give residents the comfort of home. Since there is no need for nursing home type equipment, assisted living care homes offer more of a community type atmosphere, with the added comfort of assistance from trained staff within the facility.