• Aging Services

  With the rapid changes and advances in services for persons over 60 years of age, CARF's aging services standards reflect leadership in the field internationally.

  The continuum of care accredited by CARF includes:

  • Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)
  • Adult Day Services
    
  • Assisted Living
  • Person-Centered Long-Term Care Communities
  • Home and Community Services
  • Case Management
  • Independent Senior Living
  • Dementia Care Specialty Program
  • Stroke Specialty Program

  Please refer to the aging services program descriptions for further details.

  For more information on CARF aging services accreditation, please email as@carf.org or call toll free (866) 888-1122.

• Aging services lenders

  Lenders seeking to invest in the senior housing and services sector may have questions about accreditation and how it helps identify an organization that is prepared to meet the terms of a lending arrangement.

  Visit www.carf.org/lenders to get started.

• The 2019 LeadingAge Ziegler 200

  The LeadingAge Ziegler 200 (LZ 200) lists the largest not-for-profit systems providing aging services through senior living in the United States, by order of their total owned market-rate units.

  In the 2019 list, 40 systems of the LZ 200 operate 170 CARF-accredited continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs), which represent more than half of the total number of CCRCs that CARF accredits.

• CARF is the only accreditor for continuing care retirement communities

  The nation's first and only accreditation system for CCRCs—the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC)—was founded in 1985 and began operations through the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (now known as LeadingAge). In 2003, CARF acquired CCAC.

  In 2017, the CCAC entity and accreditation process was fully integrated into CARF. The CCAC name and accreditation seal are no longer in use, but CARF continues the unique attributes of the accreditation process for CCRCs, including the Five-Year Term of Accreditation, the annual financial review, and the financial ratio benchmarks.

• How CARF accreditation helps programs develop sophisticated systems

  Helping create best practices using proven systems and approaches is where CARF accreditation adds tremendous value. The process exposes your organization to intellectual capital and perspectives to which it would not otherwise have access. Read this BB&T white paper to see how accreditation helps your program thrive from a business perspective.

  
  

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• Continuing Communication newsletter

  The new issue of the Continuing Communication newsletter (PDF) is available now.

  Subscribe to future issues.

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• Elderly health/long-term care study

  An independent research study compared CARF-accredited nursing homes to those without CARF accreditation. It found that CARF-accredited nursing homes performed significantly better compared to U.S. national averages in six out of seven quality measures upon which the study was focused.
  
  Find out more about the study by visiting the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) summary webpage.   

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