The New York State Department of Health licenses and regulates adult homes, enriched housing programs, and residences for adults, collectively known as adult care facilities. These facilities provide temporary (respite) or long-term, non-medical residential care services to adults who are substantially unable to live independently; which may be due to physical, mental, or other limitations associated with age or other factors. Residents are provided with personal care and services on a long-term basis, in order to enable them to remain healthy and to participate in daily personal and community activities. For more information about these services including assisted living, visit our page about adult care facility services.
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Need more information about services and providers right for you? Learn more about your options by reading our Consumer Information Guide: Assisted Living Residence or visit the New York State Department of Health website.
Adult Home (AH): Provides long-term residential care, room, board, housekeeping, personal care, and supervision to five or more adults.
Enriched Housing Program (EHP): Provides long-term residential care to five or more adults, primarily people sixty-five years of age or older, in community-integrated settings resembling independent housing units. The program provides or arranges for room, board, housekeeping, personal care, and supervision.
Assisted Living Residence (ALR): Provides or arranges for housing, on-site monitoring, and personal care services and/or home care services in a home-like setting to five or more adult residents. The ALR provides daily food service, twenty-four hour on-site monitoring, case management services, and the development of an individualized service plan for each resident. The ALR must be located within either a licensed adult home or enriched housing program.
Enhanced Assisted Living Residence (EALR): Provides services that may enable a resident to age in place by admitting or retaining residents who (1) chronically require the physical assistance of another person to walk; (2) chronically require the physical assistance of another person to climb or descend stairs; (3) are dependent on medical equipment and require frequent assistance from medical personnel; or (4) have chronic unmanaged urinary or bowel incontinence.
Special Needs Assisted Living Residence (SNALR): Provides services to individuals with special needs, including individuals with dementia or cognitive impairments.
Assisted Living Program (ALP): Provides services to persons who are medically eligible for nursing home placement but in a less medically intensive, lower cost setting. The ALP provides personal care, room, board, housekeeping, supervision, home health aides, personal emergency response services, nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical supplies and equipment, adult day health care, home health services, and the case management services of a registered professional nurse.
Respite Care: Respite is the provision of temporary residential care for adults in an adult care facility on behalf of or in the absence of the caregiver for up to 120 days in any 12-month period.