What Home Care, Home Health, and Hospice Services Does Riverview Retirement Community Provide?

Riverview Retirement Community provides four in-home and outpatient care services beyond its residential living options: Home Care, Home Health, Outpatient Therapy, and a Home for Hospice. These services are designed for people who need support while remaining at home, or who need rehabilitative care without moving into a skilled nursing facility. The descriptions below reflect what Riverview states about each service on its website.

Home Care

Home Care is a non-medical support service. According to Riverview, it helps a loved one stay at home when they need non-nursing help, or it can augment nursing help with basic daily living tasks.

This means Home Care is suited to situations such as:

• A person who needs help with daily living activities but not skilled medical care
• A household where a nurse is already involved, but extra hands are needed for routine daily tasks

It is not described as a nursing or therapy service — that distinction belongs to Home Health.

Home Health

Home Health delivers nursing or therapy services, which Riverview refers to as "skilled services," where the person lives rather than in a skilled nursing facility or rehabilitation facility.

The key condition here is medical necessity: these are skilled services, so they are appropriate when a person requires nursing or therapy that would otherwise require a facility setting. If the need is non-medical daily living support, Home Care is the matching service instead.

Outpatient Therapy

Riverview Outpatient Therapy uses an evidence-based approach and covers:

• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• "Many other rehabilitative care services"

This is an outpatient option, meaning the person travels to receive therapy rather than receiving it at home. It fits someone recovering from an injury, surgery, or condition who needs rehabilitation but does not require inpatient or in-home skilled care.

Home for Hospice

The Home for Hospice operates, in Riverview's description, like a bed and breakfast: the loved one stays at Riverview, and the hospice care itself is provided by another agency.

This is an important structural detail. Riverview provides the residence; a separate hospice agency delivers the clinical hospice care. Families considering this option should expect to coordinate with an outside hospice provider rather than receiving hospice directly from Riverview.

How the Four Services Compare

Choosing Between Them

The deciding factor is the level of care required:

• If the need is help with daily living and no skilled nursing is required → Home Care
• If the need is skilled nursing or therapy delivered where the person lives → Home Health
• If the need is rehabilitation therapy attended as an outpatient → Outpatient Therapy
• If the need is hospice care in a residential setting → Home for Hospice, with the clinical care supplied by a separate agency

Riverview also offers a Schedule a Tour option on its site for families who want to see the community before deciding. Because service availability, eligibility, and coordination details are not specified in the website material, confirm those directly with Riverview when you inquire.