New Mexico Senior Care Choices
The following options of senior care are available and licensed in New Mexico:  (Click on the icon next to the description for a copy of current regulations for each type of care):

Adult Residential Care Facilities
Ranging in size from 2 to 245 seniors, Residential Care provides a range of services including personal services, room and board, protective oversight and social opportunities. For a senior who would benefit from help with their activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, or would enjoy the companionship of their peers for recreational or social activities, this option can provide a welcome opportunity from living in their own home. With such a range of sizes and types of Residential Care, it is recommended that seniors and their families carefully consider a variety of options prior to the selection of their final choice.  Within this category of licensed care you will find what is sometimes referred to "Adult Foster Care homes" as well as the larger Assisted Living communities.

Adult Day Care 

Adult Day care can take place in either an Adult Day Care Center, or an Adult Day Care Home.  An Adult Day Care Center is a facility which provides care, services and supervision to three or more elderly or disabled adults, who because of diminished mental to physical capacity find it difficult to care for themselves in their own residences during the day. An adult day care center may be located in any building which meets applicable state and local building and safety codes.

An Adult Day Care Home is private residence which provides care, services and supervision to at least three but not more than five elderly or disabled adults who because of diminished mental or physical capacity find it difficult to care for themselves in their own residence during the day.

Nursing Home Care
New Mexico licenses health care facilities that provide "longterm care" These facilities are defined as a "health facility that holds itself out as a nursing home, nursing facility, nursing care facility or intermediate care facility or a health facility that is planned, organized, operated, and maintained to provide supportive, restorative, and preventive services to persons who, due to physical and/or mental disability, require continuous or regular inpatient care. " This part of the facility is normally located either in a separate wing or area from what is known as the Skilled section of a Nursing Home

Hospice Care:
Hospice offers medical services to ease suffering and guide families through the daily care patients with terminal illness require.



Home Health Agency
A Home Health Agency is any business, entity or organization primarily engaged in providing medically directed acute, restorative, rehabilitative, maintenance, preventive and/or supportive services through professional and/or paraprofessional personnel to a patient/client in the patient/client's residence. This term does not apply to any individual, licensed practitioner providing services within the scope of his/her practice or to any business, entity or organization providing non-medically directed services in a patient/client's place of residence.