ABOUT ASSISTED LIVING FOR SENIORS
Assisted Living or Assisted Living Facilities are inviting and comfortable settings where seniors can feel at home when they are not able to live on their own, but do not need the level of continuous nursing care that a nursing home offers. Assisted Living Facilities can be small residential houses or very large facilities providing services for individuals that require assistance with activities of daily living. The socialization aspects of Assisted Living Facilities are very beneficial to the occupants and offer scheduled activities for the occupants, keeping in mind different disabilities and needs. Resident would not need the intensive care of a nursing home but prefers more companionship and needs some assistance in day-to-day living. Someone who lives at an assisted living facility would not have to be concerned with having to prepare meals every day and allows for visiting with others without having to leave home. This greatly reduces the isolation that elderly, disabled or handicapped people suffer when living alone.

Find a full range of personalized, assisted living services including help with activities of daily living, such as eating, bathing, dressing and medication management with professional staff members in a home-like setting to provide everything including good, old-fashioned company.

Adult Daycare Center
An adult daycare center is a non-residential health care facility specializing in providing activities for elderly and/or handicapped individuals. Most centers operate 10 - 12 hours per day and provide meals, social/recreational outings, and general supervision. Some daycare centers maintain a nurse on-site. Occasionally, there will be a small room devoted to clients to have vital signs checked, etc. by a medical assistant/nurse when needed. They may also provide transportation and personal care as well as counseling for caretakers.

Age-Restricted Community
An age-restricted community is a housing area, often gated, that restricts ownership to individuals who are over a set age. In addition to restrictions on ownership, such communities frequently have age requirements for residency as well. These communities are set up to accommodate older individuals who would like to live in an area without the perceived problems of having children around.

Nursing Facilities
Some states have nursing homes that are called nursing facilities, which do not have beds certified for Medicare patients, but can only treat patients whose payments source is Private Pay or Medicaid.

Nursing Homes
A nursing home is residence facility that provides a room, meals, and help with activities of daily living and recreation. Generally, nursing home residents have physical or mental problems that keep them from living on their own. They usually require daily assistance. Nursing homes are required to have a licensed nurse on duty 24 hours a day, and during at least one shift each day, one of those nurses must be a Registered Nurse.

Residential Care Home
Another term for Assisted Living Facility is adult Residential Care Home. More recently built facilities are designed with an emphasis on ease of use by disabled people. Bathrooms and kitchens are designed with wheelchairs and walkers in mind. Hallways and doors are extra-wide to accommodate wheelchairs. These facilities are by necessity fully compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Retirement Community
A retirement community, or active adult community, is a very broad, generic term that covers many varieties of housing for retirees and seniors - especially designed or geared for people who no longer work, or restricted to those over a certain age. Another term may be used for a predominantly senior citizen community, which residence is unrestricted by age and job affiliation.

Retirement Home
A retirement home is a multi-residence housing facility intended for the elderly. The usual pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Additional facilities are provided within the building. A retirement home differs from a nursing home primarily in the level of medical care given. Retirement villages and retirement communities, unlike retirement homes, offer separate and autonomous homes for residents.

HEALTHCARE AND MEDICARE
Medicare
Medicare is the name given to a health insurance program administered by the United States government, covering people who are either age 65 and over, or who meet other special criteria. The Social Security Administration is responsible for determining Medicare eligibility and processing premium payments for the Medicare program. In general, individuals are eligible for Medicare if they (or their spouse) worked for at least 10 years in Medicare-covered employment and are at least 65 years old.
Part A
Hospital Insurance will pay for nursing home stays as well if certain criteria are met.
Part B
Coverage includes physician and nursing services, x-rays, laboratory and diagnostic tests, and other outpatient medical treatments administered in a doctor's office.
Part C
Medicare beneficiaries are given the option to receive their Medicare benefits through private health insurance plans, instead of through the Original Medicare plan
Part D
In order to receive this benefit, a person with Medicare must enroll in a stand-alone Prescription Drug Plan or Medicare Advantage plan with prescription drug coverage.

Geriatrics
Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself. Geriatricians are primary care physicians who are board-certified in either family practice or internal medicine and have also acquired the additional training necessary to obtain the Certificate of Added Qualifications in geriatric medicine.

Gerontology
Gerontology is the study of aging. It is to be distinguished from geriatrics, which is the study of the diseases of the aging. Gerontologists are professionals who specialize in studying or working with older adults. Gerontologists are responsible for educating, researching, and advancing the broader causes of older people.
Research gerontologists conduct research on the aging process, social structures, and living environments of older persons in an effort to understand and enrich the lives of elders.
Applied gerontologists work directly with older persons, communicating with and analyzing individuals, families, and groups. They may also provide their services to people in nursing homes, senior citizen centers, and other similar facilities.
Administrative gerontologists use their training and management skills to develop programs and coordinate services that are necessary for services to run smoothly.

AGING RESEARCH
Aging Research
- studies the aging process
- shed light on the neuroendocrinology of aging
Supplements - Some supplements have been shown to be of benefit against some aging-related disease conditions, or have extended average lifespan.
Calorie Restriction - The restriction of energy intake, or calories, in an otherwise healthy diet (a practice generally called Calorie restriction or simply CR) has been shown to extend the maximum lifespan of almost every species on which it has been tested.
Hormone replacement therapy - Hormone replacement therapy aims to restore youthful levels of growth hormone, testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, melatonin, DHEA and thyroid all of which decline with age

Memory Loss and Mild Cognitive Impairment
Recent research has identified a transitional state between the cognitive changes of normal aging and Alzheimer's disease, known as mild cognitive impairment. Many people that experience mild cognitive impairment are at a high risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
- Declarative memory
Declarative memory stores facts and experiences. It is so called because it refers to memories that can be consciously discussed, or declared. It applies to standard textbook learning and knowledge. Declarative memory is subject to forgetting, but frequently accessed memories can last indefinitely.
- Episodic memory
Episodic memory is the recollection of events. It includes time, place, and associated emotions and can be especially impaired in normal aging.
- Semantic memory
Semantic memory refers to the memory of meanings, understandings, and other factual knowledge and actually improves somewhat with age.
- Short-term memory
Short-term memory is said to be able to store 7 plus or minus 2 bits of information for about 20 seconds and shows little decline with age.
- Implicit memory
Implicit memory is a type of memory in which previous experiences aid in the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences and typically shows no decline with age.
- Procedural memory
Procedural memory is often not easily verbalized, but can be used without consciously thinking about it; procedural memory can reflect simple stimulus-response pairing or more extensive patterns learned over time and typically shows no decline with age.

CARE-GIVERS
Palliative Care
Palliative care is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of disease symptoms or slowing the disease's progress, rather than providing a cure. The goal is to prevent and relieve suffering and to improve quality of life for people facing serious, complex illness. Palliative care is not dependent on prognosis and is offered in conjunction with all other appropriate forms of medical treatment.
Resident Assignment
Resident assignment refers to the extent to which residents are allocated to the same nurse. With this particular system one person is responsible for the entire admission period of the resident. However, this system can cause difficulties for the nurse or care-giver should one of the residents they are assigned to pass away or move to a different facility, as the nurse/caregiver may become attached to the resident(s) they are caring for.
Resident-Oriented Care
Resident oriented care is where nurses are assigned to particular patients and have the ability to develop relationships with individual patients. Patients are treated more as family, as opposed to random patients. Using resident-oriented care, nurses are able to become familiar with each patient and cater more to their specific needs.
Task-Oriented Care
Task oriented care is where nurses are assigned specific tasks to perform for numerous residents on a specific ward. Residents in this particular situation are exposed to multiple nurses at any given time. Because of the random disbursement of tasks, nurses are declined the ability to develop more in depth relations with any particular resident.

• Emergency Response Security System
• Assistance with Personal Care
• Nursing & Rehabilitative Care
• Independent Living Communities
• Independent Living Services
• Assisted Living Services
• Assisted Living Communities
• Retirement Communities
• Professional Caregivers
• At Home Assisted Living
• Senior Social Opportunities
• 24-Hour Medical Service
• Rehabilitative Care
• Registered Nurses
• Hospice Care
• Seniors and Aging
• Families of Seniors
• Short-term Stays
• Respite Care
• Hospice Care
• Home Care
• Nursing Homes
• Senior Services
• Medical Services,
• Medical Emergency,
• Quality Care Services
• Memory Impairments
• Private Suites
• Companion Suites
• Housekeeping
• Personal Laundry
• Linen Services
• Healthful Meals
• 24-hour Staff
• Concierge Service
• Educational Programs
• Scheduled Outings
• Wheelchair Accessible
• Independent Living
• Alzheimer's Care