Assisted Living
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Includes:
• Assisted Living Facilities
• Alzheimer’s/Dementia
ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES (ALFs)
ALFs provide housing, personalized support services and health care
designed to meet the needs of those who need help with
Activities of Daily Living (ADL).
ADLs include assistance with: • Bathing • Dressing • Grooming
• Eating • Ambulation • Transferring • Toileting • Hygiene
• Walking & other similar tasks • Supervision & help with medications
Various Care Levels
ALFs can offer different levels of assistance,
from minimal to comprehensive. The following
are the three types of state licenses for assisted
living facilities in Florida.
Care Level: Standard License
Basic Services include, but are not limited to:
• Housing (private, semi-private rooms,
suites or apartments)
• Meals, special diets and snacks
• 24-hr staff available to supervise residents
• Assistance or help with ADLs
• Assistance with medications by a nurse
• Arrange for health care services
• Health monitoring
• Housekeeping
• Help with laundry and maintenance
• Social and leisure activities
• Provide or arrange for transportation to
health care services
• Respite care
Care Level: Extended Congregate
Care (ECC) License
Extended Congregate Care (ECC) is a
specialty license for assisted living facilities
(ALFs). All ECC facilities are ALFs and all ECC
beds are licensed ALF beds. However, not all
ALFs are licensed to provide ECC services. The
concept of ECC services in ALFs evolved from
Florida legislators recognizing the need to allow
residents the option to “age in place” as they
become more impaired. Thus, ALF residents
could remain in the ALF longer, and nursing
home stays could be reduced or eliminated.
ECC Services include:
• Limited nursing services and assessments
• Total help with ADLs
• Measurement and recording of vital signs
and weight
• Dietary management, including special
diets, monitoring nutrition, food & fluid
intake
• Supervise residents with dementia and
cognitive impairments
Many individuals do not need the
expensive and intensive level of
care provided by a nursing home,
however, they cannot continue to live
independently.
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