Residential Care Facilities

Residential care facilities provide housing and supportive services for six or more people who don’t need 24 hour nursing care. Residential care facilities offer shared and private rooms. These facilities are not required to provide private bathrooms or kitchenettes. Many residential care facilities specialize in caring for individuals with Alzheimer’s or dementia. These settings are licensed and regulated by the Department of Human Services.

For a list of residential care facilities in the county, please see the Residential Care Facilities in Lane County document ( pdf file).

Duties and qualifications of direct caregivers will vary among facilities. Staff to resident ratio will typically be lower than what is required for nursing homes. Caregivers are not required to be certified, although training prior to providing services to residents is mandatory.

Services provided by residential care facilities include:

• Three Nutritous Meals daily with snacks available seven days per week
  
• A daily program of social and recreational activities
  
• Housekeeping
  
• Transportation scheduling
  
• Emergency call systems in each apartment
  
• Individualized care plan
  
• Housekeeping services
  
• Personal and other laundry service
  
• Medication management
  
• Health services: monitoring, supervision, or assistance
  
• Select diabetic care
  
• Assistance with activities of daily living such as mobility, eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, and grooming and personal hygiene.
  
• Incontinence care
  
• Intermittent cuing, redirecting and environmental cues for cognitively impaired residents; and Intermittent intervention, supervision and staff support for residents who exhibit behavioral symptoms
  
• Medical appointment scheduling
  
• Periodic nighttime care

Include an Oregon licensed nurse(s) who is regularly scheduled for onsite duties including delegation and teaching at the facility and who is available for phone consultation. Residential Care facilities are not required to have licensed registered nurses on premises 24-hours-a-day. The nurse typically does not provide hands-on nursing care.

Staff to resident ratio is mandated by the state. Caregivers are not required to be certified, although training prior to providing services to residents is mandatory.

Alzheimer’s Care Units
Some facilities specialize in providing care only to persons with Alzheimer's Disease or other forms of dementia. A facility that specializes in the care for people with memory impairment must receive an endorsement and is governed by additional regulations that are specifically intended to support individuals with dementia.

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