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The Facility

The Resident

The Services

The Staff

The Facility

• About 90% occupied
• 100 beds on average
• May stand alone or be part of a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC).
  • A CCRC is a nursing home with assisted living and independent living facilities in the same complex.
    
    

The Resident

• In 1990, 5% of all Americans over the age 65 were living in a nursing home.
• The typical nursing facility resident is a white female Medicaid beneficiary aged 75 years or older.
• The average nursing home resident needs assistance with 3.67 activities of daily living (ADLs).
  • ADLs include:bathing, dressing, toileting, eating, transferring.

Source: Nursing Facility Sourcebook, 1998

The Services

• Residents receive assistance with activities of daily living as needed
  • dressing
  • grooming
  • bathing
  • toileting
• Resident are provided with assistance while eating, in a dining room or in their own room
  
  
• Nurses administer all medications
  
  
• Supervision of residents and skilled nursing care is available 24 hours a day

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