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Georgia Department of Human Services
Long Term Care Section
#2 Peachtree Street, 31st Floor
Atlanta, GA  30303-3142
(404)657-5850
www.dhs.georgia.gov

Division of Aging Services
http://aging.dhs.georgia.gov

http://rules.sos.state.ga.us/gac/111-8-1

Types of Housing/Care	Search	Definitions
Adult Day Care	Adult Day Care	“Adult day care (ADC)” means the provision of a comprehensive plan of services that meets the needs of aging adults. This term shall not include programs which provide day habilitation and treatment services exclusively for individuals with developmental disabilities. “Adult day center” or “center” means a facility serving aging adults that provides adult day care or adult day health services, for compensation to three or more persons. Adult day centers may operate in more than one location if classified and approved by the Department as a mobile adult day center. This term shall not include a respite care services program. “Adult day health services (ADHS)” means the provision of a comprehensive plan of services that meets the needs of aging adults under a medical model. This term shall not include programs which provide day habilitation and treatment services exclusively for individuals with developmental disabilities. “Aging adults” means persons 60 years of age or older or mature adults below the age of 60 whose needs and interests are substantially similar to persons 60 years of age or older who have physical or mental limitations that restrict their abilities to perform the normal activities of daily living and impede independent living.
Affordable Senior Housing	Affordable Senior Housing	HUD 202 Program that offers rental assistance for seniors who meet the requirements of the federal program.
Assisted Living Communities	Care Homes	Assisted Living Communities are Personal Care Homes that serve 25 or more residents and employ certified medication aides.
Home Health Agency	Home Care	A Home Health Agency is an organization that is engaged in providing home health services according to a written plan of treatment signed by the patient’s physician in the residence or home of the patient. These home health services include part-time or intermittent skilled nursing care and at least one of the following: physical, occupational, or speech therapy; medical social services; or home health aide services.
Hospice	Hospice	Hospice is an organization providing a centrally administered and autonomous continuum of palliative and supportive care to persons who are terminally ill and to their families. Hospice Care is directed and coordinated by the Hospice Care team primarily in the patient’s home, but also on an outpatient and short-term inpatient basis.
Nursing Homes	Nursing	Nursing Homes are facilities that admit elderly or disabled residents on medical referral and maintain services and facilities for institutional and intermediate care. (Intermediate Care means the provision of food, including special diets when required; shelter; laundry; and personal care services, such as help with dressing, getting in and out of bed, bathing, feeding, medications and similar assistance. Services are under the supervision of a nurse.)
Personal Care Homes	Care Homes	Personal Care Homes include any dwelling that provides or arranges for the provision of housing, food service, and one or more personal services for two or more adults who are not related to the owner or administrator by blood or marriage. (Personal services include but are not limited to: individual assistance with and supervision of self-administered medications and essential activities or daily living such as eating, bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting).
Private Home Care Providers	Home Care	Private Home Care Providers are licensed by the state and provide nursing services, personal care services and/or companion sitter services to persons in their own homes. These providers are not Medicare certified but some may be accredited. These providers are inspected every other year using the Private Home Care Provider rules. Surveyors from the Office of Regulatory Services investigate complaints about care quality.

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