Health residences: legal aspects

Clinical and social background “The HR offers to dependent subjects, elderly and not, with an outcome of physical illnesses, mental or sensory mixed, not treatable at home, an average level of medical, nursing and rehabilitation, accompanied by a high level of protect and hotel assistance, modulated according to the model of care adopted by the Regions and Autonomous Provinces (DPR 14.01.97). The HR are intended to subject self-sufficient, could not be treated at home, affected by geriatric neurological and neuropsychiatric stabilized diseases. Be expected: hospitality permanent relief to the family not exceeding 30 days, of completing education and rehabilitation possible initiatives in other principals of the NHS.” Essentially the HR are the practical response to the needs of actual society, more and more elderly, with various care needs that can not be left solely to individual initiative resolvers household. Depending on the provision of care to be paid, social workers and health board must ensure the adequacy of operation by the state of health of the subject admitted, in relation to “obligations of means” business activity, whereas the RSA however, is not a hospital or a nursing home.