If you (or a loved one) are having difficulty with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as meal preparation, shopping, laundry, housekeeping chores, or taking your medications at appropriate times, a Residential Care Home such as, Southmayd Home, may be the perfect living solution. 

Residential Care Homes (RCHs) are licensed in Connecticut by the Department of Public Health, a Division of Community Based Services. They provide a home for many seniors who have reached the time in their lives when living alone is not in their best interests.  RCHs provide a special combination of housing, personalized supportive services and care designed to respond to the individual needs of those who require a little more help with their activities of daily living (ADLs), but who do not need the skilled medical or nursing care provided in a nursing home.  

The Staff of RCHs offer help with ADLs while encouraging their residents to remain as independent as they can be, for as long as possible. They promote the involvement of a resident’s family and friends and encourage a home-like environment so that each resident can maintain their privacy and dignity, all while living in a community setting. Residents living in RCHs are often able to prevent many of the problems associated with living alone, such as illness resulting from poor diet, depression, and mishandling of prescribed medications. Attentive and caring staff oversees the general well-being of their RCH residents and help them maintain and/or improve the health of their residents.

Southmayd Home is a member of CARCH, the Connecticut Association of Residential Care Homes.  If you would like to see a list of other RCHs within Connecticut, please visit the CARCH website at http://www.carch.net:

Other interesting facts about RCHs:

• There are approximately 100 RCHs licensed by the CT Department of Public Health. 
  
  
• There are over 2,700 licensed RCH beds in Connecticut. The average RCH has 28 beds. Southmayd Home has 35 beds of which 2 are reserved for short Respite Care stays of one to eight weeks.
  
  
• RCHs serve low-income, elderly and the disabled. More than 85% receive state assistance. As a not-for-profit RCH, Southmayd Home maintains low rates that are affordable for many within this population, even for those residents who receive no state assistance. 
   
• To recoup expenditures, most RCHs submit an annual accounting report to the CT Department of Social Services in order to receive cost-based reimbursements from the State. Not all expenditures are approved. Southmayd Home, a private not-for-profit RCH, receives no funding from the State of Connecticut.