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Older adult care terminology
- Retirement home:
- Suites of rooms or apartments, offering older adults independence, recreational activities, places for socializations, and medical facilities in the area.
- Allows older adults to live their normal lives while offering care and support services on standby.
- Typically requires residents to be age 55 and older
- No medical or nursing assistance included; Medication management is NOT covered.
- Retirement community:
- A type of retirement home, for older adults who want to live in townhouses, condominiums, apartments, and other similar structures with others in their age group
- Medication management is NOT covered.
- Independent living:
- Virtually identical to retirement homes, but with more personal care provided (e.g. wellbeing checks and comprehensive dining services). In turn, it’s usually a little more expensive.
- Still no medical or nursing care included. Medication management is NOT covered
- Assisted living:
- Personalized care in a home-like, residential setting. For seniors who require more health support than offered in a retirement home , but not to the point of needing a nursing home.
- Also offers social activities while promoting a healthy lifestyle.
- Medication management IS covered
- Nursing home:
- for older adults who are ill and need regular attention.
- qualified caretakers help the residents bathe, get dressed, walk, and other activities of daily living (ADLs).
- the most clinical senior care option; can even resemble a hospital.
- Medication management IS covered
- Home care:
- Basic assistance with daily living from their own home, e.g. bathing and dressing, meal prep and cooking, rides to appointments and light house cleaning.
- Offers vital companionship and fights loneliness.
- Medication Management is NOT covered, although med reminders can be provided (just not administration).
- Home health care:
- Allows older adults to receive visits from a physical or occupational therapist, social worker or a registered nurse who can assist with medication management (including administering meds) and disease or wound treatment from their own home.
