Colorado Senior Housing & Care
Search for Colorado Housing and CareColorado Department of Public
Health & Environmental
Health Facilities Division
4300 Cherry Creek Dr S
Denver, CO 80222-2800
(303) 692-2800
www.cdphe.state.co.us
| Types of Housing/Care | Search | Definitions |
| Adult Day Programs | Adult Day Care | Adult Day Care Services include health and social services. Individual therapeutic and psychological activities are furnished on a regularly scheduled basis in an Adult Day Services Center as an alternative to long-term nursing facility care. |
| Assisted Living Residences | Assisted Living | Assisted Living Residences range in size from 3 to 245 beds. The most common reasons for admission to Assisted Living Residences are medication management, bathing and dressing assistance, and the need for protective oversight and supervision. Assisted Living Residences provide a range of services and include: a physically safe and sanitary environment, room and board, personal services, protective oversight and social care. Personal services include: social supervision, transportation assistance, activities of daily living (such as bathing, dressing, eating, laundry), and recreational and leisure activities. Protective oversight includes: monitoring activities and medications, and social care includes organizing, planning, coordinating and conducting activity programs. (In Colorado, Assisted Living Facilities and Personal Care Boarding Homes are referred to as Assisted Living Residences.) |
| Personal Care/Homemaker | Home Care | Personal Care and Homemaker services are provided under the Medicaid waiver program for eligible clients in their homes. Personal care services are furnished to meet the clients' nonskilled physical, maintenance and supportive needs, including bathing, grooming, hygiene, and assistance with ambulation. As these services are nonskilled, they do not need to be performed by a certified home health aide as an extension to care provided by a nurse or therapist. A personal care provider is required to receive at least twenty hours of training. Homemaker services are provided when the individual ordinarily responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to manage the household activities. These services include housecleaning, meal preparation, and laundry. Homemakers are required to have eight hours of training. |
| Home Health Agencies | Home Care | Home Health Agencies provide a wide range of health and social services delivered at home to persons recovering from an illness or injury or persons who are disabled and/or chronically ill. They provide "skilled services" such as nursing, social services, and therapeutic treatments (physical, speech, occupational therapy). They also provide non-skilled services like help with bathing, dressing and eating. Medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers and oxygen may also be provided. |
| Hospice | Hospice | Hospice Care is a package of services and programs provided to terminally ill individuals and/or their care givers/families. Hospice beneficiaries must be under the care of a physician. Hospice is a centrally administered program of "palliative" care (i.e. services which do not cure illnesses, but produce the greatest degree of relief from the symptoms of a terminal illness) and supportive care. Included are physical, psychological, spiritual and sociological care, which are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Hospice services include bereavement assistance to the family/care givers after the death of the hospice patient. Hospice services can be delivered in the home, in a licensed health care facility (such as a nursing home), in a hospice residential facility, in an inpatient hospice facility, or through a hospice day care center. |
| Nursing Care Facilities/Nursing Homes | Nursing | Nursing Homes provide services to residents who require continuous medical and nursing care and supervision due to physical and/or mental disability. All Nursing Homes provide long term care services to chronically ill or elderly persons. Many also offer short term or "extended care" rehabilitative services (such as those needed to help people continue to recover from recent hospitalization) and special units for people with Alzheimer's Disease or other types of dementia. |
Click here to start a new senior housing, senior products or senior care search
Return to the main State Listings page
- Save your searches and favorite listings with notes
- Map multiple listings
My Searches (32)