Service Descriptions

Independent Living: A residential living setting for elderly or senior adults who are very independent and have few medical problems.

Assisted Living: Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities (ALFs) provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs); coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being.

Alzheimer's/Memory Care: Facilities for Alzheimer's care, sometimes called Alzheimer's special care units (SCUs), are designed to provide an increased sense of familiarity and ensure a safe environment and for residents.

Hospice Care: Care provided to enhance the life of a person in the end stages of life rather than the use of heroic lifesaving measures.

Elder Law: Elder law is a legal term coined to cover an area of legal practice that places an emphasis on those issues that affect the growing aging population.

Skilled Nursing: Skilled Nursing Facility: A facility that is staffed with 24-hour on-site licensed professionals for the care of the frail elderly who require a high level of medical care and assistance.

Rehabilitation: Therapeutic care for persons requiring intensive physical, occupational or speech therapy in order to restore to the patient to a former capacity.

Home Health: Skilled nursing care and medical services provided in a home setting.

Home Care: Services delivered at home to assist with the essential activities of daily living.

Personal Care Home: provides room, board and personal services, for compensation, to two but not more than eight residents (this varies from State to State) in a congregate living and dining setting.

CCRC: A residential community for the remainder of one's life, with a choice of services and living situations. Seniors can move between Independent Living, Assisted Living and Nursing Home Care based on changing needs at each point in time.

Adult Day Care: Structured programs with stimulating social activities as well as health-related and rehabilitation services for the elderly.

Geriatric Care Management: Formal services planned by care professionals who help the patient or the family determine and coordinate necessary health care services.

Senior Move Management: professionals who specialize in assisting older adults and their families with the emotional and physical aspects of relocation.

Residential Care Services: Group living arrangements that are designed to meet the needs of people who cannot live independently but do not require nursing facility services.