One or more people with mental retardation live with a family who provides care as needed. Staff provide assistance with dressing, bathing or other personal care, but provide no training for residents. A staff-supervised program that provides sleeping rooms and meals. Staff do not provide formal training or assist with dressing, bathing or other usual personal care. A facility for people who have extensive health care needs.
Nursing homes provide daily nursing care but little or no training.
People with mental retardation live in the same kinds of housing as other people in the community, including apartments, condominiums, rented or owned houses, mobile homes and so on. They are provided supports based on their individual needs and wishes. The University of Minnesota Research and Training Center on Residential Services and Community Living periodically collects data on state licensed or operated residential services for people with mental retardation and related conditions. The number of people living in large state institutions is declining each year, and states are gradually closing such state-operated institutions. Over the past several years, the population decline has been about 4 percent annually.