Assisted living services are personal care, homemaker, and chore services; medication oversight; and therapeutic, social, and recreational programming provided in a home-like environment in a licensed assisted living facility in conjunction with residing in the community based.
This service includes 24-hour on-site response staff to meet scheduled or unpredictable needs in a way that promotes maximum dignity and independence, and to provide supervision, safety, and security. Other individuals or agencies may also furnish care directly or under arrangement with the community setting, but the services provided by these other entities supplement that provided by the community setting and do not supplant it.
Individuals have the freedom and support to control their own schedules and activities, have access to food and visitors of their choosing at any time, have access at any time to the common/shared areas (including kitchens, living rooms, activity centers), and have the freedom to furnish and decorate units.
Assisted living is furnished to individuals who reside in their own living units, which may include dually occupied units when both occupants consent to the arrangement, that contain bedrooms and toilet facilities, and may or may not include kitchenette and/or living rooms. The assisted living setting must have a central dining room, living room or parlor, and common activity center(s) (which may also serve as living rooms or dining rooms).
Individuals in assisted living settings, where units do not have a private kitchen/kitchenette and/or living room or parlor, have full access to a shared kitchen with cooking facilities and comfortable seating in the shared areas for private visits with family and friends.
Assisted Living is inclusive of assisting individuals in acquiring, retaining, and improving skills such as communication, self-help, domestic, self-care, socialization, fine and gross motor skills, mobility, personal adjustment, relationship development, use of community resources, and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully in home and community-based settings. As needed, this service may also include assistance in promoting positive social interactions, as well as services to instruct individuals in accessing and using community resources. These resources may include transportation, translation, and communication assistance related to the IRP goals and services to assist the individual in shopping and other necessary activities of community and civic life, including self-advocacy. Assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) are included.