8799 Other residential care activities n.e.c.

This category includes residential and social assistance services for persons, except older persons and persons with disabilities, who are unable to fully care for themselves or who do not wish to live on their own. Medical treatment or education are not essential elements of these services.

This category excludes:

• funding and administration services of compulsory social security programmes, see 84.30.0
• nursing care facility services, see 87.10.00
• short-term shelter services for disaster victims, see 88.99.09

This subcategory includes:

• residential social assistance services involving round-the-clock care services to children and youths, e.g., social services for orphanages, homes for children in need of protection, juvenile correction homes etc.

This subcategory excludes:

• residential care services for children living with or having a diagnosis of intellectual disability, mental illness or substance abuse, see 87.20.01
• adoption services, see 88.99.01

This subcategory includes:

• residential and social assistance services involving round-the-clock care services to adults, e.g.:
• residential care and assistance services for single mothers and their children
• residential care and assistance services for temporary homeless
• residential care and assistance services for refugees and immigrants
• residential care and assistance services of halfway group homes for persons with social or personal problems
• residential care and assistance services of halfway homes for delinquents and offenders
• residential care and assistance services of other social rehabilitation services

This subcategory excludes:

• residential care services for adults living with or having a diagnosis of intellectual disability, mental illness or substance abuse, see 87.20.02
• residential care services for older persons or persons with physical disabilities, see 87.30.0