What Are the Different Levels of Care for Elderly?

So the different levels of care can kind of be broken down in the nursing home world into different facilities. Probably at the lowest level, you have independent living facilities where there there’s very little if any care delivered at these facilities. They’re more like senior communities where certain things like lawn care are taken care of.

Next you’ve got assisted living. So if someone needs a little bit of help but they’re generally independent, they’ll go to an assisted living facility, and the type of care that they receive tends to be things like medication management.

If you don’t need 24/7 nursing care, but you’re starting to have some memory problems, some of these facilities offer memory care services, usually at an assisted living facility, which is a little higher level of care than an assisted.

If you need more care than that, you’ll find yourself at a nursing home which is where you receive 24/7 nursing care.