Assisted Living Facilities provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living; coordination of services by outside health care providers; and monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Assistance may include the administration or supervision of medication, or personal care services provided by a trained staff person.
Within the United States assisted living spectrum, there is no nationally recognized definition of assisted living. Assisted Living facilities are regulated and licensed at the US state level. More than two-thirds of the states use the licensure term "assisted living." Other licensure terms used for this philosophy of care include Residential Care Home, Residential Care, Assisted Care Living Facilities, and Personal Care Homes. Each state licensing agency has its own definition of the term it uses to describe assisted living.
Hospice is a special concept of care designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families when a life-limiting illness no longer responds to cure-oriented treatments. Hospice care neither prolongs life nor hastens death. Hospice staff and volunteers offer a specialized knowledge of medical care, including pain management. The goal of hospice care is to improve the quality of a patient's last days by offering comfort and dignity. Hospice care is provided by a team-oriented group like Hospice Los Angeles, or specially trained professionals, volunteers and family members.
What is Home Health Care?
Home Health Care is the treatment and prevention of illness. Health care is delivered by professionals in medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and allied health. Home Health Care is skilled nursing facilities and certain other health care services that you get in your home for the treatment of an illness or injury. Your doctor must decide that you need medical care in your home, and make a plan for your care at home; and You must need at least one of the following: intermittent (and not full time) skilled nursing care, or physical therapy or speech language pathology services; and You must be homebound. This means that you are normally unable to leave home. Being homebound means that leaving home is a major effort. When you leave home, it must be infrequent, for a short time, or to get medical care; and The Home Health Los Angeles agency caring for you must be approved by the Medicare program.
