In New Jersey, Assisted Living encompasses providing various coordinated supportive personal and health services, available 24 hours per day, to residents who need those services. Its purpose is to promote resident self-direction and participation in decisions, with an emphasis on independence, individuality, privacy, dignity, and homelike surroundings.

And thus, corporations that operate Assisted Living Facilities (ALF) must provide, at a minimum, services for:

Indeed, ALFs and our nursing-home lawyers know that potential residents have the right to live in an ALF that does not admit more residents than it can safely accommodate while providing those services and other care. And for persons who currently live in an ALF, the corporations operating the ALFs know that those residents have the right to receive care and services at a level that addresses the residents’ changing physical and psychosocial status.…

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