Resource Category: Community Based Residential Facilities

These are staffed group living arrangements that provide room, board, supervision and other supportive services to five or more unrelated adult residents. Typically, residents have either a private or shared sleeping room and share living, dining and bathroom space with other residents of the facility. CBRFs are intended for people who cannot live independently but are neither acutely ill or need extensive amounts of nursing care. Facilities vary in size from five residents to over 100. Some are houses and some are facilities. Some serve a frail elderly population; others serve people with disabilities, people with dementia, or a mixed group of residents. All CBRFs must be licensed by the state.