Tennessee Assisted Living

"Assisted care living facility (in Tennessee) means a building, establishment, complex, or distinct part thereof which accepts primarily aged persons for domiciliary care and which provides on site to its residents room, board, non-medical living assistance services appropriate to the residents' respective needs, and medical services as prescribed by each resident's treating physician, limited to the extent not covered by a physician’s order to a home care organization and not actually provided by a home care organization."

"Home for the aged means a home which accepts aged persons for relatively permanent, domiciliary care. A home for the aged may be any building, section of a building, or distinct part of a building, a residence, a private home, a boarding home for the aged, or other place, either for profit or not, which provides, for a period exceeding 24 hours, housing, food services, and one or more personal services for one or more aged persons who are not related to the owner or administrator by blood or marriage. source: (Tennessee) Assisted Care Living Facilities: Rules of the Department of Health, Chapter 1200-8-25 et seq. & Homes for the Aged: Chapter 1200-8-11.