Explore Senior Living Options

Explore Senior Living Options

Long-term care is a term that encapsulates any kind of medical care or help given to an individual to perform daily activities, over an extended period of time. Unless illnesses are chronic or the patient is suffering an ongoing medical condition, the main focus of long-term care is the assistance of activities of daily living (ADLs). ADLs are routine activities such as bathing, dressing, toileting, and transferring from the bed to a chair. Long-term care also includes services such meal preparation, medication administration, housework, and money management to name a few. Although long-term care is a term used for services typically provided for the elderly, it also applies to extended care for the disabled and chronically ill. Due to the broad nature of long-term care, there a many different types of services available:

Home Care

Home care makes it possible for millions of seniors to live at home every year. Instead of moving to an assisted living facility or a nursing home, seniors can continue living where they feel happiest and most comfortable — their home. Home care services involve caregivers or nurses to come straight to your aging loved ones. 

Assisted Living

Assisted living communities give older adults personalized care in a residential setting. They’re for seniors whose health or well-being requires a higher level of support, which is determined through a health assessment by the community according to state regulations. Assisted living also provides a healthy lifestyle and social engagement.

Community Programs

Senior community programs involve elders in projects for employment or community service in old age. Still allowing for elders to maintain independence and their own lifestyles, community programs offer social wellness opportunities. 

Memory Care Facilities

Memory care facilities serve to meet the needs of those with different forms of dementia. These communities seek to help those diagnosed with degenerative brain ailments and requiring assistance with routine care.

Skilled Nursing Facility/Nursing Home

Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)

In a skilled nursing facility, residents receive full-time care by a specially trained medical staff. People who require a higher level of medical care, either short-term or long-term, need what’s known as skilled nursing care, extended care, or long-term care. These facilities are licensed by Medicare and/or Medicaid and are focused on short-term rehabilitation and long-term medical care.

Nursing Homes

Nursing homes provide what is called custodial care, providing help getting in and out of bed, and assistance with feeding, bathing, and dressing. However, nursing homes differ from other senior housing facilities in that they also provide a high level of medical care in the same building usually if needed. This is normally provided in a custodial care section of a Skilled Nursing Facility/Nursing Home.

Supportive Housing Programs

Serving Seniors’ Transitional Housing Program (THP) helps homeless seniors get off the streets by providing transitional housing and supportive services as a direct steppingstone to permanent affordable housing. Supportive housing is a highly effective strategy that combines affordable housing with intensive coordinated services to help people struggling with chronic physical and mental health issues maintain stable housing and receive appropriate health care.

Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs)

A continuing care retirement community (CCRC), also known as a life plan community, delivers independent living and an amenity-rich lifestyle with access to onsite higher-level care should medical needs progress. CCRCs are ideal for seniors who are still independent but feel lonely or are isolated from friends or family.

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