What is a Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC)?
A Continuing Care Retirement Community provides independent living residents with the privacy of their own spacious apartment, a community of friends and neighbors, as well as an extensive list of services and amenities so that you can enjoy your retirement. A special benefit of a CCRC is the guarantee of on-site healthcare including Assisted Living, Memory Support and Skilled Nursing. At Timber Springs, a unique healthcare package is included that offers residents peace-of-mind for their future.
It is the type of community that provides a continuum of care, including independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care, all at one site. What are the advantages of choosing a CCRC? Regardless of the level at which you enter, you will never have to worry about moving to another kind of facility to receive a different level of care if your medical condition changes. CCRC’s are sometimes called “life-care communities.” They offer great peace of mind to you and your family members. Why is CCAC accreditation so important? CCAC accreditation is widely regarded as a mark of quality for retirement communities because the standards to receive this accreditation are so high, and the self-study and review process are so rigorous. The CCAC is the nation’s only system for accrediting continuing care retirement communities. I’m looking for an assisted living community. Can I move into Roland Park Place at this level? Yes. When RPP received its license for 41 Residential Care (Assiste
A continuing care retirement community is a campus community which contains all of the various levels of care: independent living, personal care/assisted living, nursing care and rehabilitation. In a CCRC a member of the retirement community is able to move back and forth among the various levels of care, according to need. Residents with a CCRC contract are guaranteed services throughout the continuum. Baptist Homes Society is licensed as a CCRC in the state of Pennsylvania. The Baptist Homes campus in Mt. Lebanon accepts residents on both a fee-for-service and CCRC contract basis.
The American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA) defines a CCRC as: “A continuing care retirement community provides or arranges for housing and health-related services to an older person under an agreement or agreements effective for the life of the person or for a specified period greater than one year.” Return to Top 2.
A continuing care retirement community or CCRC is a facility that basically has this aging in place concept where you move in, and generally when people move in, they are in pretty good shape and don’t require a lot of assistance, but the idea is that no matter how much assistance they may need, as life goes on and whatever medical conditions may develop and so on, that they can stay in that setting and so they have got an independent setting, and then they will have an assisted setting, and then usually they have got a nursing facility, all within the same campus. So, you can go up or down in levels of care, depending on what else is going on with you. If you break a hip, you go to the nursing centre for a while and then you can move back, if you are doing okay, and so on.
