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Montana Senior Housing & Care
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Senior And Long Term Care Division
111 North Sanders, Room 210
Helena, MT 59604
Phone: (406) 444-4077
Fax: (406) 444-7743
http://www.dphhs.state.mt.us/sltc/index.htm
| Types of Housing/Care |
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| Adult Day Care |
Adult Day Care |
Adult Day Care is a service for frail, physically or cognitively impaired, seniors and adults with disabilities. This service helps seniors/disabled adults to live with their families by providing a daily program of stimulating activities, social interaction with peers, and physical or speech therapy in a non-medical environment. This service also enables care givers to retain employment outside their homes, to have assistance with the physical obligations of caring for a loved one, and to obtain occasional respite from this 24-hour a day responsibility. |
| Adult Foster Care |
Adult Foster Care |
Adult Foster Care is an option of care whose hallmark is a small family setting for up to four senior or disabled residents. Personal care services, such as assistance with eating, bathing, dressing and grooming are provided to residents. There is medication management as well as general supervision. |
| Home Health Agencies |
Home Care |
Home Health Agencies provide home health services to a persons considered homebound in his/her place of residence for the purposes of postponing or preventing institutionalization: skilled nursing services, home health aide services; physical therapy services; occupational therapy services; speech therapy services; and medical supplies and equipment suitable for use in the home. |
| Hospice |
Hospice |
Hospice Care is an approach to treatment that, recognizing a person’s impending death, focuses on comfort care rather than curative care. The Hospice seeks to help the person and those close to the person come to terms with the terminal condition and live the remaining life as fully as possible. The Hospice assists by providing care and managing the persons terminal condition. This includes providing nursing services, respite care, inpatient services, pharmaceuticals, durable medical equipment, bereavement counseling and nursing facility services. |
| Long Term Care Facilities |
Long Term Care |
Long Term Care Facilities (Nursing Homes) are institutions which primarily provide: skilled nursing care and related services for residents who require medical or nursing care; rehabilitation services for the rehabilitation of injured, disabled or sick persons; or on a regular basis, health-related care and services to individuals who because of their mental or physical condition require care and services, above the level of room and board, which can be made available to them only through institutional facilities. A facility that participates in Medicaid must provide, or arrange for, the full range of services for residents who need them, from those services above the level of room and board which can be made available only through institutional facilities, up to and including skilled nursing care. |
| Personal Care Homes/Assisted Living |
Personal Care Homes |
Personal Care Homes/Assisted Living is used to describe a full spectrum of residential care options. Facilities providing Assisted Living services are licensed as a Personal Care Home in the State of Montana. There can be great variation on how services are delivered by providers. Some facilities specialize in providing services to people with physical impairments, while others may target services to the elderly or the cognitively impaired. Category A Assisted Living/Personal Care Home Facility services center around providing needed assistance with activities of daily living such as eating, bathing, dressing, grooming, medication management and general supervision of residents. Accommodations vary from facility to facility so it is strongly recommended to "shop" and "visit" before selecting a facility. Community and social activities also vary from facility to facility and town to town. The residential service plan developed by the resident and provider establishes the range of services and accommodations, including "move-in" and "move-out" criteria. Category B Assisted Living/Personal Care Home Facilities in Montana are limited to five category B residents per facility, regardless of population census. Residents at this level have skilled nursing care needs that can approach Nursing Home care level. Because of this, additional requirements exist regarding physician oversight, patient assessment and care planning. Third party nursing services are arranged to meet these special needs. When applicable, Hospice is also an option for residents. Most facilities are licensed for Category B to allow residents to age in place and remain a part of the Assisted Living facility's community at the end of life. |
| Retirement Homes |
Retirement |
A Retirement Home includes a building or buildings in which separate living accommodations are rented or leased to individuals who use those accommodations as their primary residence. |
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