North Dakota Senior Assisted Living Definition
Assisted Living (HB 1109 created in 2001) changed the definition of assisted living facility to any building or structure containing a series of living units operated as one business entity to provide services for five or more individuals who are aged or disabled adults and who are related by blood or marriage to the owner or manager of the entity and which is kept, used, maintained, advertised, or held out to the public as a place that makes available individualized support services to accommodate an individual's needs and abilities to maintain as much independence as possible. It does not include a facility that is licensed as a basic care facility or a congregate housing facility. Assisted living facilities must be registered.
Basic care facility means "a residence licensed by the department ... that provides room and board to five or more individuals who are not related by blood or marriage to the owner or manager of the residence and who, because of impaired capacity for independent living, require health, social or personal care services, but do not require regular 24-hour medical or nursing services and makes response staff available at all times to meet the 24-hour scheduled and unscheduled needs of the individual; or, is kept, used, maintained, advertized, or held out publicly as an Alzheimer's, dementia, or specialty memory care facility. to assist the residents to attain or maintain their highest level of functioning, consistent with the resident assessment and care plan, to five or more residents not related by blood or marriage to the owner or manager." |