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Aging Services - Senior Housing Choices - Oklahoma

Most older Oklahomans choose to remain in their own homes, but for those who need supportive assistance or who no longer wish to keep up a home in the community, Oklahoma offers the following choices:

Independent Senior Housing

Housing which offers various combinations of meal plans, housekeeping, limited laundry services, recreation and transportation services. No personal care such as bathing assistance is provided. Retirement Communities may or may not include assisted living and nursing facility care on the same campus.

Residential Care

Housing which offers or provides residential accommodations, food service, and supportive assistance. A residential care home may provide assistance with meals, dressing, bathing, and other personal needs, and it may assist in the administration of medications. However, it cannot provide medical care.

Assisted Living

Housing that may provide assistance with personal care, medications, and ambulation. The center may also provide nursing supervision and intermittent or unscheduled nursing care. The assisted living center cannot provide 24-hour skilled nursing care as is provided in a nursing facility.

Nursing Facility

A facility which provides 24-hour skilled care and related services for residents who require medical or nursing care.

Continuum of Care Facility

A facility which combines the services of a nursing facility with an assisted living center and/or an adult day care center.

Licensing

All of the above types of housing, except Independent Senior Housing, are licensed in Oklahoma. For a list of facilities with current licensure, click below to the Oklahoma Department of Health, Long-term Care listings:

http://www.health.state.ok.us/PROGRAM/condiv/hrsd/okdir~1.htm

Elderly Apartment Communities

For a listing of federally assisted Elderly Apartment Communities (a type of Independent Senior Housing, click below to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD):

http://www.hud.gov/local/index.cfm?state=ok

Senior Housing Associations

You may also wish to contact the following senior housing associations for member listings. Note there are some overlaps in these listings and the listings available from the Department of Health above:

American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA):

http://www.aahsa.org/

Oklahoma Assisted Living Association (OKALA):

http://www.alfa.org

Oklahoma Residential Assisted Living Association (ORALA):

http://www.ORALA.org

For more information see:

http://www.okdhs.org/programsandservices/aging/house/

Also see:

Aging Services - Overview

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