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Adult Day Care
Adult day care is a community-based program for functionally impaired adults that provides a variety of health, social, and related support services in a protective setting. Typically, the functionally impaired person spends the day at the center and the night at home. Some state Medicaid programs cover this type of care; the Medicare fee-of-service program does not, although some alternative Medicare financing programs may.

Assisted Living Facilities
These facilities can be an attractive residential alternative for people who require some assistance but do not need the intensity of care provided at a nursing facility. And they have may have special appeal for middle-income seniors because they tend to be less expensive than nursing homes and in many cases offer more attractive physical surroundings. Assisted living facilities range in size from very small operations to large-scale developments with 600-800 residents. They offer a wide range of personal care and health related services. In addition to room and board they provide 24-hour emergency monitoring, supervision, and dispensing of medications, opportunities for socializing, and assistance with one or more activities of daily living. Many of the newer facilities now have a nursing facility wing and Alzheimer's wing attached.

Board and Care Homes
These are also called retirement homes or adult care homes. A board-and-care home offers housing and personal care services to between 3-16 residents depending on licensing requirements in individual states. Services such as meals, supervision, and transportation are usually provided by the home's owner or manager. Many times the care takes place in a single family dwelling that as been converted to a care facility.

Home Health Care
Home health care provides medically oriented services for acute or chronic illness in the patient's home; it often follows a hospital stay for an acute medical condition or a discharge from another type of medical facility. Most insurers, including Medicaid and Medicare and private insurance, provide at least limited coverage for home health care.

Long Term Care Information
Long –term care services can be categorized as either in a facility or based in the home. Facility care is provided in skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, retirement homes, or board and care homes. Common types of in the home care consist of home health care agencies and home care (also referred to as personal care.

Nursing Homes
Nursing Facilities provide skilled nursing care for people who are recovering from acute illness involving a stay in the hospital; they also offer custodial care for people who are functionally impaired and unable to live independently. Those that enter a nursing home after a stay in the hospital and are there to receive skilled care usually stay just of short time. Medicare covers the first 20 days of care and another 80days subject to a deductible paid by the individual of $114 per day. After the 100 days the patient reverts to self-pay or to Medicaid.

Personal Care
This is also referred to as home care. For people who need assistance in performing activates of daily living, Medicare covers some personal care services—known as home health aide visits—under its home health care benefit. Private insurance usually covers this if two or more activities of daily living are compromised. However, the most common source of personal care is the donated care of family members and friends.

General Liability Insurance
The existence of a liability policy not only provides financial strength to a company but it also shows that the company was investigated by an insurance company and was selected as an insurable risk based on inspections of its physical facility for liability risks as well as its safety procedures and claims history.

Workers Compensation Insurance
The existence of a workers compensation policy that covers a companies caregivers ensures that a person entering your home or providing care in a facility is properly insured against injury thus helping to protect you against expensive lawsuits.

Staffing Level
Why are staffing levels important? A recent study prepared by the University of California found that staffing was the best predictor of good processes of nursing home care. It concluded that staffing levels were a better predictor of high quality care processes than the eight quality indicators that were examined.