- Assisted Living defined*
- An assisted living residence is a special combination of housing, personalized supportive services and health care designed to meet the needs -- both scheduled and unscheduled — of those who need help with activities of daily living.
These needs usually include meals each day served in a common dining area, housekeeping services, assistance with eating, bathing, dressing, toileting and walking, 24-hour security and staff availability, medication management, personal laundry services, and others.
*source: Assisted Living Federation of America, 1650 King Street, Suite 602, Alexandria, VA 22314-2747 - Assisted living facilities tend to be very different from one another. An assisted living unit may be as grand as a small apartment with a tiny kitchen in a large complex or as modest as a shared room with little more than a bed and dresser for each resident. One can find an assisted living facility housing 100 residents and providing on-site nursing care two blocks away from another facility that houses six residents and employs a staff with no healthcare expertise at all.
*source: Assisted Living Consumer Alliance
- In Kansas, Assisted Living:
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- Is called Assisted Living Facility / Residential Health Care Facility
- Most facilities provide assistance with activities of daily living, personal care services, medication administration, and health related care that is on an intermittent basis.
- Hospice might be included if service agreement provides for it.
- Medicaid may pay for assisted living services through a Medicaid Home and Community Based Services Waiver.
- In Kansas, Residential Health Care:
Means any place or facility caring for six or more individuals... who, by choice or due to functional impairments, may need personal care and may need supervised nursing care to compensate for activities of daily living limitations and in which the place or facility includes individual living units and provides or coordinates personal care or supervised nursing care available on a 24 hour, seven day a week basis for the support of resident independence. The provision of skilled nursing procedures to a resident in a residential health facility is not prohibited by Kansas law. Generally the skilled services provided in a residential health care facility shall be provided on an intermittent or limited term basis, or if limited in scope, a regular basis.
Source: Kansas Department of Aging
Kansas State specific Assisted Living information, links, brochures, articles & publications
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