Assisted Living Communities
Assisted Living Homes or senior Assisted Living Communities are senior housing that provides seniors assistance with their activities of daily living (ADLs). Upon admission of senior resident, housing staff creates customized personal care plan to meet senior resident’s needs. Community staff will coordinate this personalized care plan of the senior resident to his family as well as the senior’s doctor. Some services may also be provided in the community by a third-party agency or independent professional health care providers. Planned activities and monitoring of the senior’s physical well-being are all part of ensuring the senior’s safety, good health, and overall wellness.
Senior Assisted Living homes usually become the choice of seniors as an alternative option to Independent Living community when seniors start needing assistance. Assisted living community provides seniors assistance with their ADLs but not needing 24 hours of medical care provided by skilled professionals in a nursing home.
Senior Assisted Living homes offer a wide range of services to seniors. Community staff provides from minor assistance like reminding the senior of his medication to 24 hour non-medical care to a severely frail senior.
Services and Amenities
Senior Assisted Living homes provide seniors a selection of apartments from studio, semi-private or companion suite, one-bedroom, up to two-bedroom apartment. The Assisted Living for seniors offers choices of floor plans. The senior assisted living community also provides scheduled local transportation at no additional cost to the senior. Assisted Living homes have built-in emergency call system to ensure safety of the senior. Common services offered in an Assisted Living for seniors include assistance with activities of daily living, assistance during meal time, bathing, dressing, medication management, and 24 hour supervision and assistance to seniors who needs awake night staff to assist with their mobility. There are a lot of things offered in large senior assisted living communities. This housing features having a chef to ensure nutritious and well-balanced restaurant-style meals with alternate options, full-time Activity Director to implement exercise programs to promote overall physical wellness, strength and maximize mobility, as well as plan for community events and senior outings to encourage social interaction among seniors in the community. Assisted Living Community posts a well-planned calendar of these social and educational events for seniors to choose which interest them the most. Both small and large assisted living facilities include housekeeping and laundry services in the monthly rent.
Seniors Assisted Living homes offer both assisted services and memory care for those senior residents diagnosed with Dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. In cases where the senior resident becomes terminally ill, Hospice care is also provided in the community usually by the Hospice Agency chosen by the family. Assisted Living Facilities commit to providing seniors excellent quality of life, respecting their individuality and privacy, encouraging their independence, and at the same time providing assistance as needed.
In California, Assisted Living Communities hold a Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly (RCFE) license given by the Department of Social Services. Assisted Living communities are heavily regulated.