Arkansas Senior Living

Arkansas Senior Assisted Living Definition

Residential long-term care facility means a building or structure which is used or maintained to provide, for pay on a 24-hour basis, a place of residence and board for three or more individuals whose functional capabilities may have been impaired, but who do not require hospital or nursing home care on a daily basis but could require other assistance with activities of daily living.

An Assisted Living Facility (ALF) is any building or buildings, section, or distinct part of a building, boarding home, home for the aged, or other residential facility whether operated for profit or not that undertakes through its ownership or management to provide assisted living services for a period exceeding 24 hours to more than three adult residents of the facility who are not relatives of the owner or administrator. Assisted living facility means facilities in which assisted living services are provided either directly or through contractual arrangements or in which contracting in the name of residents is facilitated. An assisted living facility provides, at a minimum, services to assist residents in performing all activities of daily living on a 24-hour basis.

An Alzheimer's Special Care Unit is a separate and distinct unit within an assisted living or other long term care facility that segregates and provides a special program for residents with a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease or related dementia, and that advertises, markets, or otherwise promotes the facility as providing specialized Alzheimer's or related dementia care services.