A nursing home is a facility which provides residents with a room, meals, personal care, nursing care, and medical services. Nursing homes provide care to residents with chronic conditions requiring long-term care or for those needing a shorter term acute recovery period after hospitalization. Typically, patients in long-term care facilities require assistance with multiple activities of daily living (ADLs), which include bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, transferring in and out of chairs or beds, and continence, and/or have cognitive limitations due to Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia.