Assisted Living Facilities
Synonyms
Residential care facility; Personal care home; Domiciliary
care facility; Adult foster care; Adult family homes
Definition
Assisted living facilities offer private rooms or apartments
to people who are not able to live on their own but
are still independent enough that they do not yet need
the continuous care of a nursing home. The facilities
offer meals, housekeeping assistance, assistance with
activities of daily living, assistance with medication
administration, social activities, and 24-hour support by
trained staff. Usually, assisted living facilities have the
mission of offering personal autonomy, independence,
and privacy to often frail elderly people in order to provide
homelike settings for them. Facilities that were
built in the recent past are more likely to cater for the
specific requirements of disabled people.
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