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What is an Alzheimers' Care facility?

Alzheimer's care facilities are for senior who require special care due to dementia. They are often set with special safeguards for wandering and caregivers are trained in handling dementia behaviors. Alzheimer’s Care is delivered in assisted living settings and in nursing homes.

What is a Nursing Home?

Nursing homes provide custodial or "skilled" (medical) nursing services for seniors with serious illnesses or disabilities twenty-four hours a day. Nursing care facilities cater to several types of patients: some patients require short-term rehab while recovering from surgery; others require long-term nursing and medical supervision.

What is a Skilled Nursing Facility?

Skilled Nursing Facility: A Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) is Is primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing care and related services for residents who require medical or nursing care; or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled, or sick persons.

What is an Assisted Living facility?

Assisted living facilities are an apartment-style habitat designed to focus on providing assistance with daily living activities. They provide a higher level of service for the elderly which can include preparing meals, housekeeping, medication assistance, laundry, and also due regular check-in's on the residents. Basically they are designed to bridge the gap between independent living and nursing home facilities.

What is In-Home Care?

For seniors who can take stay at home, and receive applicable care in their own home. Care could be Home Health Care (medical,) i.e. doctor-prescribed provided by skilled personnel such as nurses or physical and occupational therapists, or Intermediate Care (non medical) such as transportation assistance, help with meals, light chores, companionship, etc.

What is a Micro Community?

A Micro community is a senior care category that encompasses various types of smaller (e.g., 20 residents or less) senior communities. They are known by different and are often referred to as residential care homes, adult family homes, personal care homes, adult foster homes, group homes, or board and care homes. Typically they all have the same things in common: they provide care for seniors in a homelike setting that's very much like a family.

What is Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC)?

These are communities operated and planned to offer a fourth dimension of service. Starting out, most elderly people only need the bare minimum of solicitude and don't require to have someone with them at all times. This allows individuals to never have to change their environment and get the specific care that they require throughout stay.

What is a Senior Community?

Senior Communities are for seniors who can take care of themselves, but would like to live in a building or community with people of similar age. Senior communities often target members under 80 years or age.

What is Hospice?

Hospice care hospice care is an infusion of home care and facility care provided to benefit terminally ill patients and support their families through their tough times.

What is Respite?

Respite care services Services provided by a licensed health care institution to persons otherwise cared for in foster homes and in private homes to provide an interval of rest or relief of not more than thirty days to operators of foster homes or to family members.

What is Short-Term Care?

Short-Term care programs are services provided by a licensed health care institution to persons otherwise cared for in foster homes and in private homes to provide an interval of rest or relief of not more than thirty days to operators of foster homes or to family members.

What is a Skilled Nursing Facility?

A Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) is Is primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing care and related services for residents who require medical or nursing care; or rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled, or sick persons.

What is Rehabilitation Care?

The care providers provide medical services, for seniors, usually after hospitalization, where the goal is for the patient to be able to return to their own homes as soon as possible. This may include medical services, physical therapy and occupational therapy.

What is Medicare/Medicaid?

Medicare is the federally administered health insurance program for people sixty-five years of age and older, certain disabled people under sixty-five years of age, and people with end-stage renal disease. Medicaid is a federally aided, state-operated program that provides medical care for some low-income individuals and families with limited resources.

Medicare Overall Rating

Combines data from health inspections, staffing, and quality measures. The highest rating is 5 stars and the lowest is 1 star.

Medicare Health Inspections Rating

Indicates compliance in regular inspections with Medicare and Medicaid standards concerning food safety, hiring practices, and other aspects of healthcare. Conducted by state inspectors at least every 15 months. Stars are based on the latest three inspections and on complaint-related inspections in the past three years. 5 stars are best, 1 star is worst.

Medicare Staff Rating

Indicates adequacy of time spent caring for residents by registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, licensed vocational nurses, and certified nursing assistants. Reflects hours worked during two-week period before regular health inspection divided by number of residents. Adjusted according to residents' needs and health status. 5 stars are best, 1 star is worst.

Medicare Quality Measures Rating

Indicates adequacy of care, such as percentages of residents with pain, bedsores, or urinary tract infections. From data nursing homes are required to collect and report for each resident. Of the 19 measures in which performance is displayed, 10 were used to arrive at the star rating. 5 stars are best, 1 star is worst.

Medicare RN Staff Rating

Indicates adequacy of time spent caring for residents by registered nursess. RN hours of care has shown to be correlated to quality outcomes. Reflects hours worked during two-week period before regular health inspection divided by number of residents. Adjusted according to residents' needs and health status. 5 stars are best, 1 star is worst.

Distance

You may specify the distance from the center of the location you are searching, within which you would like to search for care providers.

Medicare Star Rating

This is the Medicare quality rating, which is a 1 to 5 star score, with 5 stars being the best score a provider can receive. You can learn about about the details of the scoring system in our article "The Medicare 5 Star Rating System Explained".

Price Range Per Month

This the minimum price per month for that facility. Specifying $5,001+ as the upper price will also include facilities charging more that $5,001 per month.

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