High Service or High Privacy Assisted Living Facilities, Their Residents and Staff: Results from a National Survey

This report gives a description of the policies and practices, residents, and staff in the segment of the assisted living facility (ALF) industry that provides the highest level of services and privacy. It reports data on a nationally representative sample of residents and staff in ALFs classified as providing relatively high services or offering a high privacy environment. These facilities, which comprise about two-fifths (41%) of the places calling themselves assisted living, were selected for more extensive and in-depth data collection because they seemed to most effectively exhibit key elements of the philosophy of assisted living. [90 PDF pages]