A wide range of non-institutional services, including supportive, health and personal care, which help older people who need assistance maintain maximum independent functioning in their own homes or a substitute environment of their choice.
The practice of having the locus of services as well as management and decision-making responsibility at the community level.
Providing services to children and families in their communities.(just, at one's community, one who will help (services), with one, places, work in progress) (just, in the community, people, with them, work/services)
Reproductive health services generally provided to rural communities through mobile facilities, home-visits, and community workers at fixed distribution points. This approach takes services to the community and is often linked to a family planning clinic.
Services provided to individuals, family members, or other caregivers in the community: These services are an alternative to facility-based services or institutions.
Services designed to help people remain independent and in their own homes; can include senior centers, transportation, delivered meals or congregate meals site, visiting nurses or home health aides, adult day care, and homemaker services.
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services, such as Meals on Wheels and adult day care, designed to help people remain independent and in their own homes.
Any licensed facility, building, or agency from where only nonmedical care and supervision are provided. Examples of nonmedical care include (but are not limited to): grooming, bathing, assistance with medications, monitoring diet, and assuming the responsibility for the safety of residents.
Services designed to help older people stay independent and in their own homes.
Locally-based services (such as meals on wheels and adult day care) that allow a person to remain independent and in their own homes.
Services designed to help older people live independently in their own homes, such as adult day care and senior centers.
