what is the difference between boarding care home and senior assisted living facility?

Can anyone tell me the difference between a boarding care home and a senior assisted living facility? Which one provides housing and care for elderly people inside a house? For example if I my grandfather wanted to live in a house where he shares a room with anOther elderly.Thanks

Try this site for information:

http://www.helpguide.org/elder/senior_housing_residential_care_types.htm

This also give a comprehensive view:

http://www.helpguide.org/elder/board_care_homes_seniors_residential.htm

May 11, 2009 | Filed Under Senior Homecare Services | Senior Day Care Assistance 

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3 Responses to “what is the difference between boarding care home and senior assisted living facility?”

  1. ? Snooks ? on May 11th, 2009 3:21 pm

    Try this site for information:
    http://www.helpguide.org/elder/senior_housing_residential_care_types.htm

    This also give a comprehensive view:
    http://www.helpguide.org/elder/board_care_homes_seniors_residential.htm
    References :

  2. Diane M on May 11th, 2009 3:42 pm

    Assisted living are usually larger facilities more like apartment buildings. Board and Care homes are houses that have rooms for those who need assistance with their ADLs. In our state, assisted living is now called RCF1 and RCF2 and is very regulated. The Board and Care homes are not as regulated.
    References :

  3. Shari on May 11th, 2009 4:32 pm

    I don't believe there is a standard for in home boarding for
    seniors. Some people who run them, will take only those who
    can do everything for themselves. So all that is required of
    the home owner, is to do the general cleaning of their rooms
    and sheet changing.
    Then there are those who will take seniors who need
    help in bathing or walking to the bathroom, or dining area. It
    all depends on what the owner is willing to do in clean up or
    in assisting. This I know from an aunt who took in seniors
    like herself who were not as mobile.
    Assisted living, is rather dismal living. You have a small
    room, and you are stuck there unless someone arranges for
    you to get some exercise or personal attention. They will
    monitor meds and dispense them to the patient, and they
    probably will require more assistance in showering and
    needing help with bathing. They actually have less to live
    for once they are in a care facility like this. If they are lucky,
    they will have a tv to distract them during the day. But life
    becomes very mundane in a very short while.
    Boarding in a home, offers them some independance as
    they can do their toiletries on their own, and can move around
    the main floor of the house where they can sit and look out
    windows and enjoy the birds at a birdbath, or just the outside
    foliage. They can enjoy the warmth of a fireplace, and eat at
    a dining or kitchen table. And they can make arrangements
    to be taken by a friend or relative for the day for an outing.
    The rules are less when one boards,and life is generally
    more uplifting. If your grandfather can take care of himself,
    and take meds as he has to, he should be saved the incar-
    ceration of an assisted living environment. As he'll be in one
    soon enough, when age further slows him down.
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