Senior Living:
What to Expect
by
Gold Country Health Center
Our guides to senior living at Gold Country were written by our departmental managers in a collective effort to familiarize our new residents and their family with what to expect from our facility, to explain what our facility does and does not do, as well as where to get help.
Though our manual was specifically designed
for Gold Country's new residents,
for Gold Country's new residents,
it can be your guide too:
• Learn about what to look for when choosing a facility.
• What you can expect from staff.
• Become familiar with questions you should be asking when choosing a facility...
• What kind of services should a facility provide.
• Where do you go when you have a question, or need help.
Living at a
Skilled Nursing Facility
A Nursing Home, Convalescent Home, or Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) is a place of residence for people who require 24 hour nursing care and have significant decline in independence with activities of daily living. Some Residents stay for a short period of time recovering from surgery, an injury or an illness. These residents participate in physical, occupational, and other rehabilitative therapies to regain their independence to return home. Other residents may be unable to return home because they continue to require 24 hour nursing care.
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Living in Assisted Living
Assisted Living Residences or Assisted Living Facilities (ALFs), Residential Care Facility for the Elderly (RCFE) provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living, coordination of services by outside providers as well as monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their continued health, safety, and well-being. Assisted Living Facilities do not provide nursing care. Other assistance may include the administration or supervision of medication, or personal care services provided by a trained staff person. Assisted living as it exists today emerged in the 1990s as an alternative on the continuum of care for people, normally seniors, for whom it is no longer appropriate to live alone, but who do not need the 24-hour medical care provided by a nursing home. Assisted living is a philosophy of care and services that promotes senior independence and dignity.
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