Adult Family Care (Adult Foster Care)

The Adult Family Care (AFC) program, also called Adult Foster Care, is a program for frail elderly adults and adults with disabilities who cannot live alone safely. AFC adults live with trained paid caregivers who provide daily care. Caregivers may be family members (except legally responsible relatives), or non-family members.

Affordable Assisted Living

Affordable assisted living is housing with support services for low-income adults who cannot live on their own. It offers a level of care in between independent living and skilled nursing care.

Congregate Housing

Congregate housing is multi-unit housing with support services for seniors and for adults with disabilities who do not want to live alone. It combines privacy and companionship, by offering each resident a private bedroom or apartment, and shared living space and activities.

Group Adult Foster Care (GAFC)

Group Adult Foster Care (GAFC) is a MassHealth program that pays for personal care services for eligible seniors and adults with disabilities who live in GAFC-approved housing. To qualify, residents must eligible for MassHealth and need help with at least one daily personal care activity such as bathing or dressing.

HIV/AIDS Housing

HIV/AIDS housing is housing and/or housing support services for Massachusetts residents living with HIV/AIDS. Housing may be emergency housing, transitional housing, or long-term housing. Services vary by program, but often include case management, home health care, transportation assistance, substance abuse prevention, food and/or meals, educational programs, and homemaking services.

Permanent Supportive Housing

Permanent supportive housing is safe affordable rental housing with support services for low-income or homeless people with severe mental illness, substance abuse, or HIV/AIDS.

Supportive Housing for the Elderly

Supportive housing for the elderly is public housing with on-site support services for seniors. Residents have 24-hour access to services in their homes, similar to an assisted living facility.

Nursing Homes

Nursing homes provide long-term care for people who cannot live on their own because of physical, emotional, or mental problems. Nursing homes provide shelter, meals, social activities, assistance with activities of daily living, as well as 24-hour skilled nursing and rehabilitative services.