Memory care, nursing home care, independent living, or assisted living - what do these mean?
The Difference between Assisted Living and other long-term senior care types
Navigating the world of longer-term senior care can be tricky at the best of times, and utterly confusing at the worst. We’ve listed the main differences between Assisted Living and other popular senior care types below in an effort to help you on your journey to senior care preparedness.
Let’s start with a basic breakdown of long term senior care types:
Assisted Living
Assisted Living offers seniors a self-contained apartment or other appropriate housing options, and has trained staff that is available to them 24 hours a day to provide personal care in a way that promotes independence.
Memory Care
Memory Care offers seniors dementia-specific activities tailored to the unique cognitive needs of those with Alzheimer’s or dementia. In addition to this, memory care provides a safe, structured environment with set routines to lower stress for people suffering from a range of dementias and has medically trained staff on call 24 hours a day.
Independent Living
Independent Living offers mostly social services to seniors within a community of like-minded individuals. These senior residents are able to live independently without much medical support, yet they appreciate the added security and stress-free existence that is offered to them by independent living communities.
Nursing Home Care
Nursing Home Care offers seniors 24-hour medical supervision and care, administered by skilled medical personnel, such as specialist nurses, on a longer-term basis. Nursing homes offer the most thorough round-the-clock care a person can receive outside of a hospital.
Still a little unsure of what is included or excluded from these long-term senior care types? Download the “Senior Care Types Explained” brochure below:
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