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What is Long Term Care? Long-term care refers to a variety of services, in addition to medical care, required by persons with chronic health conditions caused by disease or accident. A disease process or an accident may prevent an adult from independently caring for one or more of his or her activities of daily living. These daily needs and functions are vital to living a normal, healthy life. The activities include the following:
When any one or more of these functions is difficult or impossible to perform, assistance in varying degrees is necessary. This assistance is traditionally provided by family or friends: mainly at home and manly by women. As women increasingly take jobs outside of the home, paid professionals and paraprofessionals are called on to share the work. Long-term care services are also provided in residential facilities such as community residential facilities (also called CRFs or group homes), assisted living residences and nursing homes. More about long term care in the District of Columbia Long Term Care Services Available in the District of Columbia |
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