General Terms
Adult Foster Home
Adult Foster Home Adult Foster Home: Adult foster homes are single family residences that offer care in a homelike setting. Adult foster homes in Oregon are inspected and licensed. The support available for residents varies by home. You should tour ...
What is PACE?
Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) PACE provides comprehensive medical and social services to certain frail, elderly people (participants) still living in the community. Most of the participants who are in PACE are dually eligible ...
What is a Long-Term Care Ombudsman?
Long-Term Care Ombudsman: An advocate for residents of nursing homes, adult family homes, and assisted living facilities. The Ombudsman program promotes policies and consumer protections to improve long-term services and support at the facility, ...
What is a Scattering Garden?
Scattering Garden: A dedicated area of cemeteries and memorial parks set aside for scattering loved one's cremated remains. If you have cremated remains or inherited an urn with the remains of a loved one, contact your local cemeteries or memorial ...
What are Assistive Devices?
Assistive devices: External devices that are designed, made or adapted to assist a person to perform a particular task. Good examples of assistive product and technology include: Hearing aids Cognitive aids, including computer or electrical assistive ...
Geriatric Physical Therapy
Geriatric physical therapy places a particular emphasis on the needs of aging adults. It helps treat conditions like arthritis, osteoporosis, cancer, joint replacement, and balance disorders. Benefits of physical therapy include: Pain management with ...
Medicare - Part D (Prescription drug coverage)
Helps to cover: - cost of prescription drugs
Medicare - Part B (Medical Insurance)
Helps to cover: - Doctor services - Services from other health care providers - Home health care - Medical equipment such as wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds - Many preventive services such as screenings, vaccines
What is Palliative Care?
Palliative Care Palliative Care: Palliative (pronounced “pal-lee-uh-tiv”) care is specialized medical care for people with serious illness. It focuses on relieving the symptoms, pain and stress of a serious illness like ovarian cancer. The goal is to ...
Senior Cooperative Housing
Senior cooperative housing: Independent older residents own a share of the community with an equal voice in how it's run. Tax benefits of homeownership are maintained.
Retirement community
Retirement community: Community exclusively for seniors. Access to social activities, valet services, and in-house support systems. The staff does not take on the general responsibility for the safety and well-being of the adult. Senior Living ...
Nursing Home
Nursing Home: A licensed facility that provides general nursing care to those who are chronically ill or unable to take care of daily living needs.
What is Memory Care?
Memory Care: Memory care provides a safe, structured long-term care environment with set routines to lower stress for people with Alzheimer's or dementia.
What is Independent living?
Independent living: Private quarters with access to assistive services like housekeeping, social activities, transportation, emergency help, and security.
Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs)
Continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs): A community offering a range of services and levels of care, including active and assisted living options.
Boarding and Care home
Boarding and Care home: Home in a residential area designed to provide a room, meals, laundry, supervision, and varying levels of assistance with care provided. Different levels of support exist. In many states, Board and Care Homes are licensed or ...
What is Assisted Living?
Assisted LIving Assisted living: Assisted living is a type of housing designed for people who need various levels of medical and personal care. Services often include: One to three meals a day Monitoring of medication Personal care, including ...
Adult Family Home
What is an adult family home? Adult Family Home: These homes are licensed to care for up to six non-related individuals. Residents can receive room, board, laundry, supervision, and help with activities of daily living, personal care, and social ...
55+ Living
What is 55+ Living? A community designed with the needs of aged 55+ as a focus (rather than young couple etc.). Typically gated includes clubhouses, fitness centers, tennis courts, pools and more for an active senior lifestyle, Click to find ...
Medicaid
Medicaid: Federal program, administered through the states, providing long term care for those with limited financial means.
Medicare
Medicare Federal health care insurance provided to those 65 and older and does not require resource or income analysis.
Long-Term Care Insurance
Long-term care insurance: An insurance policy designed to offer financial support to pay for long-term care services.
Private pay
Private pay Costs are covered out-of-pocket.
What is Respite Care?
Respite Care: Short-term relief for caregivers in the home or at a center (a few hours up to a few weeks). The caregiving services can occur in the home, at an Adult Day Care provider or at an assisted living community, typically for less than a ...
Adult day services
Community-based centers include comprehensive programs to provide social and support services in a protective setting during any part of a day. Not 24-hour care.
What is a Geriatric Assessment?
What is a Geriatric Assessment? Geriatric Assessment: A professional medical overview that covers areas such as medication, behavior, needs, activity preferences, and daily routines. The goal of an assessment is to pick up clues early before they ...
Activities of daily living
Activities of daily living: Activities related to the care for and moving of the body, including walking, bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, and eating.