Adult Day Services
Community based group programs designed to address the needs of functionally and/or cognitive impaired adults and provide much needed assistance to caregivers. Any individual, who may require supervision, increased social opportunities with peers or assistance with personal care and daily living activities will benefit from Adult Day Services.
Alzheimer's/Dementia Care Specialty
Many Assisted Living communities cater to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other related memory disorders. There is a growing trend towards specialized communities that provide care and housing tailored to the special needs of individuals with this disease. What sets these facilities apart is the care provided that fosters residents individual skills and interests in an environment that helps to diminish confusion and agitation. Specialty services are provided in a secure environment, such as activity programs designed to include reality orientation classes and specially trained professional staff skilled in handling the behavior associated with memory impairments.
Apartments
Senior apartments are independent apartments that are age restricted - starting at 55 or 62 years of age. Some senior apartment communities may have an on-site meal program (generally no more than one meal per day) and housekeeping services available at a separate cost. There are federal and state programs that help pay for this level of housing for seniors with low to moderate income. Rent payments are usually a percentage of income. Many of these communities include amenities such as a club house/meeting room, library.
Assisted Living/Residential Care Communities
Assisted living – a home, building, residence, or any other place where sleeping accommodations are provided for 17 or more residents, at least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or older and where the following are provided: • services consistent with a social model that is based on the premise that the resident's unit in assisted living and shared housing is his or her own home; community-based residential care for persons who need assistance with activities of daily living, including personal, supportive, and intermittent health-related services available 24 hours per day, if needed, to meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a resident; • mandatory services, whether provided directly by the establishment or by another entity arranged for by the establishment, with the consent of the resident or resident's representative; and • a physical environment that is a homelike setting that includes the following and such other elements as established by the Department in conjunction with the Assisted Living and Shared Housing Advisory Board: individual living units each of which shall accommodate small kitchen appliances and contain private bathing, washing, and toilet facilities, or private washing and toilet facilities with a common bathing room readily accessible to each resident. Units shall be maintained for single occupancy except in cases in which two residents choose to share a unit. Sufficient common space shall exist to permit individual and group activities. Assisted living establishment or establishment does not mean any of the following: • A home, institution, or similar place operated by the federal government or the State of Illinois. • A long term care establishment licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act. However, a long term care establishment may convert distinct parts of the establishment to assisted living. If the long term care establishment elects to do so, the establishment shall retain the Certificate of Need for its nursing and sheltered care beds that were converted. • A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the principal activity or business of which is the diagnosis, care, and treatment of human illness and that is required to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act. • An establishment for child care as defined in the Child Care Act of 1969. • A community living establishment as defined in the Community Living Facilities Licensing Act. • A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed or tenants of a well-recognized church or religious denomination. • An establishment licensed by the Department of Human Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. • A supportive residence licensed under the Supportive Residences Licensing Act. • A life care establishment as defined in the Life Care Facilities Act; a life care establishment may apply under the Act to convert sections of the community to assisted living. • A free-standing hospice establishment licensed under the Hospice Program Licensing Act. • A shared housing establishment. • A supportive living establishment.
Continuing Care Communities
Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC), also known as Life Care Communities, are residential campuses that provide a continuum of care - from private units to assisted living and then skilled nursing care, all in one location. They guarantee you a lifelong residence, unlike retirement communities, assisted living facilities, and nursing centers. (see explanation for Multi-Level facilities below).
Home Care and Services
Home Care is a cost-effective alternative to hospital care or other institutional care. You can receive health care or personal care services within your own home with the assistance of a home care agency. Services are available to people of all ages on a basis of daily visits, monthly visits, or hourly care, up to 24-hours a day. Increasingly, older people are choosing to live independent lives and take advantage of home care services.
Services can include medical and non-medical care such as assisting with shopping, laundry, meals and companionship.
Hospice
Hospice is special care designed to provide compassion and support for individuals in the final phase of a terminal illness. Hospice care seeks to enable patients to spend their last days with dignity in as comfortable and pain-free manner as possible. Hospice care can be in a number of settings: in the privacy of your home, in a hospice facility or a nursing center.
Independent Retirement Living
These communities, often referred to as Independent or Congregate Living, are designed specifically for independent senior adults in an apartment like setting with 24-hour on-site supervision. Services usually include, but in some cases are optional: meals, housekeeping and laundry. Social Activities are usually entertaining and educational and help to foster a great sense of community among the residents. Only private pay is accepted in the rental communities.
Intermediate Care Facility
A facility that provides basic nursing care and other restorative services under periodic medical direction. Many of these services may require skill in administration. Such facilities are for residents who have long-term illnesses or disabilities that may have reached a relatively stable plateau.
Multi-Level Facilities
Facilities that provide more than one level of care; for example, assisted living and skilled nursing, but that are not licensed as a continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).
Shared Housing
Shared housing establishment or establishment – a publicly or privately operated free-standing residence for 16 (Note from SNAPforSeniors – Regulations state that 12 is the max. cap. - which was historically the case - but the number has increased to 16) or fewer persons, at least 80% of whom are 55 years of age or older and who are unrelated to the owners and one manager of the residence, where the following are provided: • services consistent with a social model that is based on the premise that the resident's unit is his or her own home; • community-based residential care for persons who need assistance with activities of daily living, including housing and personal, supportive, and intermittent health-related services available 24 hours per day, if needed, to meet the scheduled and unscheduled needs of a resident; and • mandatory services, whether provided directly by the establishment or by another entity arranged for by the establishment, with the consent of the resident or the resident's representative. Shared housing establishment or establishment does not mean the following: • A home, institution, or similar place operated by the federal government or the State of Illinois. • A long term care establishment licensed under the Nursing Home Care Act. A long term care establishment may, however, convert sections of the establishment to assisted living. If the long term care establishment elects to do so, the establishment shall retain the Certificate of Need for its nursing beds that were converted. • A hospital, sanitarium, or other institution, the principal activity or business of which is the diagnosis, care, and treatment of human illness and that is required to be licensed under the Hospital Licensing Act. • An establishment for child care as defined in the Child Care Act of 1969. • A community living establishment as defined in the Community Living Facilities Licensing Act. • A nursing home or sanitarium operated solely by and for persons who rely exclusively upon treatment by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the creed or tenets of a well-recognized church or religious denomination. • An establishment licensed by the Department of Human Services as a community-integrated living arrangement as defined in the Community-Integrated Living Arrangements Licensure and Certification Act. • A supportive residence licensed under the Supportive Residences Licensing Act. • A life care establishment as defined in the Life Care Facilities Act; a life care establishment may apply under the Act to convert sections of the community to assisted living. • A free-standing hospice establishment licensed under the Hospice Program Licensing Act. • An assisted living establishment. • A supportive living establishment.
Sheltered Care Facility
A facility that provides assistance with meals, dressing, movement, bathing or other personal needs or maintenance, or general supervision and oversight of the physical and mental well-being of an individual who is incapable of maintaining a private, independent residence or who is incapable of managing his person, whether or not a guardian has been appointed for such individual.
Skilled Care Facility
A skilled nursing facility provides skilled nursing care, continuous skilled nursing observations, restorative nursing, and other services under professional direction with frequent medical supervision. Such facilities are provided for patients who need the type of care and treatment required during the post-acute phase of illness or during recurrences of symptoms in long-term illness.
Supportive Living Facility
A residential setting in Illinois that provides or coordinates flexible personal care services, 24 hour supervision and assistance (scheduled and unscheduled), activities, and health related services with a service program and physical environment designed to minimize the need for residents to move within or from the setting to accommodate changing needs and preferences; has an organizational mission, service programs and a physical environment designed to maximize residents' dignity, autonomy, privacy and independence; and encourages family and community involvement. Each Supportive Living Program designates which population it will serve, either: 1) persons with a disability who are 22 to 64 years of age; or 2) persons who are 65 years of age and over who meet the requirements Requirements include a screening by the Department and having been found to be in need of nursing facility level of care and that SLF placement is appropriate to meet the needs of the individual. (Private pay individuals may choose to be admitted into an SLF when the screening assessment does not justify nursing facility level of care).