87.992 — Other Residential Care Activities for Adults

This subclass includes the provision of residential care and assistance services for persons, except older persons, persons with disabilities, who are unable to fully care for themselves or who do not wish to live on their own. This subclass includes: - residential and social assistance activities provided on a round-the-clock basis to special categories of persons, but where medical treatment or education are not essential elements: • provision of residential services for homeless persons, refugees, immigrants, primarily for adults The activities are usually carried out by government offices or private organisations.

This subclass also includes: - halfway houses for groups of persons with social or personal problems - halfway houses for delinquents and offenders - Approved Premises for individuals under supervision of the justice system

This subclass excludes: - funding and administration of compulsory social security programmes, see 84.30 - activities of residential nursing care facilities, see 87.10 - provision of residential nursing and rehabilitative services for persons living with or having a diagnosis of a mental illness, see 87.20 - residential care activities for persons having a diagnosis of learning disability, see 87.20 - residential care activities for older persons or persons with physical disabilities, see 87.30