06/25/2026
🇺🇸 Freedom and Independence: A Right at Every Age 🇺🇸
As our nation celebrates 250 years of independence, we're dedicating the month of July to recognizing the importance of freedom, choice, and self-determination for older adults living in long-term care.
Residents of nursing homes, assisted living communities, and other long-term care settings do not give up their rights when they move into a facility. They retain important rights, including the right to dignity and respect, privacy, participation in their own care, communication with others, management of personal affairs, and freedom from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
These protections - often referred to as the Residents' Bill of Rights - help ensure that every resident maintains as much independence and control over their life as possible.
Throughout July, we'll be highlighting resident rights and sharing information about how residents, families, and caregivers can support choice, autonomy, and quality of life in long-term care.
Because independence matters at every age.
https://rules.sos.ga.gov/gac/111-8-50
Unless a different meaning is required by the context, the following terms as used in these rules and regulations shall have the meaning hereafter respectively ascribed to them:
