Arizona Senior Housing & Care
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Phoenix, Arizona 85007
(602) 542-1000
(602) 542-0883 fax
www.hs.state.az.us/index.htm
State Commission on Aging
www.azdes.gov/aaa
| Types of Housing/Care | Search | Definitions |
| Assisted Living Adult Day Health Care | Adult Day Care | An Adult Day Health Care Facility provides planned care supervision and activities, personal care, personal living skills training, meals and health monitoring in a group setting during a portion of a continuous twenty-four hour period. Adult day health services may also include preventive, therapeutic and restorative health related services that do not include behavioral health services. |
| Assisted Living | Assisted Living | An Assisted Living Facility is a residential care institution that provides or contract to provide supervisory care, personal care, or directed care for seniors on a continuing basis. Types of assisted living facilities include Adult Foster Care Homes (AFC) where care is provided for up to four people in the home in which the care giver lives, Assisted Living Homes (ALH) which provide care for up to ten, and Assisted Living Centers(ALC) which provide care up to eleven or more people. |
| Home Health Agency | Home Care | A Home Health Agency provides elderly care by meeting all of the following requirements:
-Primarily engaged in providing skilled nursing services and other therapeutic services. -Has policies established by a group of professional personnel (associated with the agency or organization) including one or more physicians and one or more registered professional nurses. These govern the services referred to in subdivision, which it provides, and provides for supervision of such services by a physician or registered professional nurse. -Maintains clinical records on all patients. |
| Home Care | Home Care | Non-Medical Home Care Agencies - Offer help with Activities of Daily Living (ADL's), including personal functional activities required by all of us for continued well-being and include things like eating, nutrition, personal hygiene and mobility. List of Arizona Non-Medical Home Care Association Members (www.aznha.org) |
| Hospice Service Agency | Hospice | Hospice Service Agency is an agency or organization, or a subdivision of that agency or organization, which is engaged in providing hospice care services at the place of residence of its clients. |
| Nursing Care Institutions | Nursing | Nursing Care Institutions provide services pertaining to the curative, restorative and preventive aspects of nursing care. These services are performed at the direction of a physician by or under the supervision of a registered nurse licensed in this state. |
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