Classification of accommodations of collective dwellings

10 - Health care and related facilities

This category includes hospitals, nursing homes, residences for senior citizens, facilities that are a mix of both a nursing home and a residence for senior citizens, and residential care facilities such as group homes for persons with disabilities and addictions.

101 - Hospitals

This category includes institutions, licensed to be a hospital, that provide medical or surgical diagnosis and treatment to the ill or injured. Also included in this category are institutions that are not licensed as hospitals but provide continuous medical, nursing and professional health care provision for persons who are not independent in all activities of daily living, such as chronically ill persons. Facilities not licensed as hospitals which are specifically for elderly persons are excluded from this category.

102 - Seniors collectives

This category includes facilities for elderly residents that provide accommodations with health care services, personal support or assisted living care.

Health care services include professional health monitoring and skilled nursing care and supervision 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for people who are not independent in most activities of daily living.

Support or assisted living care includes services such as meals, housekeeping, laundry, medication supervision, assistance in bathing or dressing for people who are independent in most activities of daily living.

103 - Residential care facilities such as group homes for persons with disabilities and addictions

This category includes residential facilities that provide accommodations with health care and/or social assistance services, such as counselling; supervision or custody; personal support or assisted living care; and diagnosis or treatment.

Included are group homes or institutions for the physically disabled, treatment centres, group homes for children and youth, and group homes or institutions for people with psychiatric disorders or developmental disabilities. Private dwellings with foster children are excluded.