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Assisted Living Facilities Provider Type Definitions and Related Definitions
For the official definitions (including additional related definitions), please visit the Arizona Revised Statutes and Arizona Administrative Code.
Adult Day Health Care Facility:
means a facility that provides adult day health services during a portion of a continuous twenty-four-hour period for compensation on a regular basis for five or more adults who are not related to the proprietor.
Adult Foster Care Home:
means a residential setting that provides room and board and adult foster care services for at least one and not more than four adults who are participants in the Arizona long-term care system pursuant to chapter 29, article 2 of this title or contracts for services with the United States department of veterans affairs and in which the sponsor or the manager resides with the residents and integrates the residents who are receiving adult foster care into that person's family.
Assisted Living Center:
means an assisted living facility that provides resident rooms or residential units to eleven or more residents.
Assisted Living Facility:
means a residential care institution, including an adult foster care home, that provides or contracts to provide supervisory care services, personal care services or directed care services on a continuous basis.
Assisted Living Home:
means an assisted living facility that provides resident rooms to ten or fewer residents.
Directed Care Services:
means programs and services, including supervisory and personal care services, that are provided to persons who are incapable of recognizing danger, summoning assistance, expressing need or making basic care decisions.
Personal Care Services:
means assistance with activities of daily living that can be performed by persons without professional skills or professional training and includes the coordination or provision of intermittent nursing services and the administration of medications and treatments by a nurse who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 15 or as otherwise provided by law.
Supervisory Care Services:
means general supervision, including daily awareness of resident functioning and continuing needs, the ability to intervene in a crisis and assistance in self-administering prescribed medications.