Adult Day Life Program

Adult Life Center Services:

• Combat loneliness and depression
• Provide supervision or assistance with activities of daily living such as walking, eating, toileting, and grooming.
• Ensure the safety and well-being of a loved one when the family or caregiver cannot be there.
• Help families coordinate health and therapeutic services needed by the frail elderly.
• Provide educational and supportive services for caregivers and families.

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Senior in Your Life?

Why Consider Adult Life Services?

For family and friends struggling with the task of taking care of an individual on their own, the Adult Life Center provides a cost-effective, flexible, and convenient alternative to institutionalization.

It also:

• Provides relief for family members.
• Enhances the development of interpersonal relationships.
• Promotes physical and emotional well-being.
• Offers warmth, enjoyment, and laughter.
• Addresses an individual's strengths, needs, and problems.
• Challenges and taps the potential abilities of participants.
• Encourages peers to interact with and help each other.
  

For people living in more than 22 million households in America, providing unpaid help to an older person has become a reality, according to the 1997 Family Caregiving in the U.S. Survey, conducted by the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP. Often caregivers concentrate totally on providing informal assistance for the senior, but not for themselves - the caregivers.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging (AoA) suggests these survival tips to caregivers:

• Plan ahead
• Learn about available resources
• Take one day at a time
• Develop contingency plans
• Accept help
• Make your health a priority
• Get enough rest
• Make time for leisure
• Be good to yourself
• Share your feelings with others

The AoA National Family Caregiver Support Program (NFCSP), established through the U.S. Older Americans Act, provides assistance to family caregivers.