Kiwanis Towers - National Church Residence of Kingsport Retirement Homes

 CONTACT
  Judy Ford
 ADMIN
  Judy Ford.
 INDEPENDENT LIVING
  Apts 94
   Govt-subsidized
   Min age 62
 SERVICES
  Central dining
   Transportation
   Social and recreational
   Security
   Library
   Religious activities
   Maintenance
   Emergency call system
   Laundry
 DATE OPENED
  January 1982
 OWNER TYPE
  Private non-profit
 OWNER
  National Church Residences of Kingsport
 AFFILIATIONS
  AAHA
   TAHA

Other licensure terms used for this philosophy of care include Residential Care Home, Assisted Care Living Facilities, and Personal Care Homes. There is a wide range of home care services that can help you maintain your independence within the comfort of your own home, from in home help to day care. A nursing home is a place of residence for people who require constant nursing care and have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living. Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with monitoring of resident activities to help to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Generally, retirement homes are designed for seniors who need minimal to moderate support with their daily living activities. Nursing Home residents include the elderly and younger adults with physical or mental disabilities. Assisted Living communities are regulated and licensed at the US state level. A nursing home may be a good choice if both medical and personal care needs have become too great to handle at home. Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living. An assisted living facility may be a good choice if you don’t need the round-the-clock medical care and supervision of a nursing home. A nursing home is normally the highest level of care for older adults outside of a hospital. Generally, retirement homes are designed for seniors who need minimal to moderate support with their daily living activities. Each state licensing agency has its own definition of the term it uses to describe assisted living. The usual retirement home pattern is that each person or couple in the home has an apartment-style room or suite of rooms. Assisted living residences or assisted living facilities provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living. Staff is available twenty-four hours a day. Retirement homes are privately owned rental accommodations for seniors who are able to manage and pay for their own care. Assistance may include the administration or supervision of medication, or personal care services provided by a trained staff person. A place in a retirement home can be paid for on a rental basis, like an apartment, or can be bought in perpetuity on the same basis as a condominium. Assisted living comes by many names, such as residential care, board and care, or group homes. Assisted living emerged in the 1990s as an eldercare alternative on the continuum of care for seniors for whom Independent living is no longer appropriate but who do not need the 24-hour medical care provided by a nursing home.