Long Term Care Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Long-term care is a range of services and supports you may need to meet your personal care needs. Most long-term care is not medical care, but rather assistance with the basic personal tasks of everyday life, sometimes called Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), such as:
 

• Bathing

• Dressing

• Using the toilet

• Transferring Moving into and out of a bed, chair, or wheelchair. 

• Caring for incontinence

• Eating

Other common long-term care services and supports are assistance with everyday tasks, sometimes called Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADLs) including:
 

• Housework

• Managing money

• Taking medication

• Preparing and cleaning up after meals

• Shopping for groceries or clothes

• Using the telephone or other communication devices

• Caring for pets

• Responding to emergency alerts such as fire alarms.