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==Long-Term Care Services== | |||
Any long-term care facility that provides long-term care services to three or more adults who are not related to the operator by blood or marriage must be licensed as a community care facility, regardless of whether the facility is funded publicly or privately. | |||
Long-term care services include: | |||
* accommodation; | |||
* development and maintenance of a care plan; | |||
* clinical support services as identified in the care plan; | |||
* ongoing, planned physical, social, and recreational activities; | |||
* meals, including therapeutic diets prescribed by a physician and tube feeding; | |||
* meal replacements and nutrition supplements as specified in the care plan or ordered by a physician; | |||
* routine laundry service for bed linens, towels, washcloths and all articles of clothing that can be washed without special attention to the laundering process; | |||
* general hygiene supplies, including but not limited to soap, shampoo, toilet paper, and special products required for use with facility bathing equipment; | |||
* routine medical supplies; | |||
* incontinence management; | |||
* basic wheelchairs for personal exclusive use; | |||
* basic cleaning and basic maintenance of wheelchairs; and | |||
* any other specialized service as needed by the client that the long-term care home has been contracted to provide, such as specialized dementia care or palliative care.<ref>British Columbia, ”Long-Term Care Services”, online: <www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/accessing-health-care/home-community-care/care-options-and-cost/long-term-care-services>.</ref> | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
