Assisted Living
Assisted
living is a residential program that provides meals, housing, and a range of
hospitality and personal care services for adults of all ages in a supportive
and safe home-like setting. Assisted living strives to optimize the dignity,
choice, preferences, autonomy, engagement in life roles, and quality of life of
the persons served. The program might provide services for specialized populations
of persons served.
Assisted
living offers a culture of customer service and hospitality as well as an
environment of safety and security for persons served. A philosophy of
independence, engagement, and wellness guides the communications between personnel
and persons served in assisted living.
Assessments
of the persons served and their person-centered plans drive service delivery.
Coordination of care and care delivery are conducted in accordance with
applicable regulations for the assisted living program. Staffing is provided 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. A variety of services ranging from minimal to
intensive assistance with activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing,
eating, grooming, mobility, toileting, and assistance with medications may be
available, as well as referrals to external services. Assisted living programs
may provide some health services and intermittent nursing care. Additionally,
these programs may offer housekeeping, laundry services, medication management,
recreation programs, and transportation.
Assisted
living programs are provided in a variety of settings from a small home with
just a few individuals to a high-rise building housing many individuals.
Individual living accommodations can be private or shared and include a single
room or a full size apartment. Assisted living may have different names in
different jurisdictions.