by admin | Aug 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
Adult day services providers are a wonderful complement to communities. Reimbursement for services varies nationally, with higher rates in Pennsylvania, New York and California. Many rely upon payment from Medicaid waiver programs, with fees for service set by...
by admin | May 29, 2017 | Uncategorized
For some it is almost not an option. How so? Well more and more participants in adult day health programs are managing some level of mental illness. Diagnosis range from anxiety disorders to paranoid schizophrenia to major depression. At the same time many are not...
by admin | Oct 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
You now find yourself in a pre-trial deposition. Why? It is occurring as a result of a lawsuit filed by a family of an adult day care client alleging inappropriate sexual contact between one of your direct care workers and their mother. The legal wrangling has been...
by admin | Sep 6, 2015 | Uncategorized
Adult day health care continues to grow throughout the world with providers giving families a basis for comfort, household management and security for someone they love. The rehabilitative components of adult day care make these programs of even greater significance....
by admin | Aug 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
We suppose all businesses require some form of start-up funding, even the kitchen table ones and adult day care is no exception. We also believe that a significant part of the process of securing financing is being able to articulate exactly how you will earn. Those...
by admin | Aug 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
Adult day care and the often designated “adult day health care” centers are important tools to help people remain socially active and medically stable within their communities. They also keep families together. Entrepreneurs approaching this business...
by admin | May 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Amidst the fight against ISIS, crumbling roads and bridges and other infrastructural issues facing America, we still cannot justify ignoring the need for a progressive approach when it comes to long-term care. Adult day care should immediately become a Medicare...
by admin | Apr 16, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
Adult day health care programs continue to be the dynamos of community based care. They promote family unity, consistent medical attention and medical stability among its participants. Some question whether or not they may have the right personality mix to operate...
by admin | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
The adult day health care center is becoming the beacon of all inclusive care in American communities. From neuro-rehab, to aquatic therapy to family counseling to help people manage stressful caregiving to barrier free personal care for the chronically obese, these...
by admin | Mar 22, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
No sane person will now or ever doubt the clinical value of adult day health care programs. Even regulators are seeing the need to expedite licensing and accommodate entrepreneurs who embrace this business model as the best option for longer-term patient...
by admin | Mar 7, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
One of the greatest frustrations for adult day care center operations in some areas is the time it takes to get a person Medicaid approved. This means a person needs your services for months before Medicaid approves them and authorizes the reimbursement of services. ...
by admin | Feb 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
We are hearing more and most about dissatisfaction with adult day care franchise organizations. Complaints range from ineffective marketing to a lack of legitimate, meaningful support for franchisees and an under-developed clinical approach to care delivery overall. ...
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by admin | Dec 21, 2014 | Blog, Uncategorized
If you were to ask families what impresses them most about an adult day center’s offerings the responses might be varied. But one guarantee is that most if not all will be concerned about the level of activity available in the center. If they perceive that...
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by admin | Dec 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
The word is out, adult day care centers are popping up all over the place. And they should be because we need them! Some even lament that it appears people from a certain ethnicity are the ones opening these centers or at least making the effort to do so. Some seem...
by admin | Nov 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
Every business has tons of processes needed to get things done. Adult day care centers are not exempt from this operating reality. These processes must be managed with real consistency if they are to be effective and staff training is no different. Why? People...
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by admin | Nov 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Elderly and Disables Waiver members living in ALS facilities may receive services at an Adult Day Health Services Facility for up to 2 full days per week.” Revised 10/2013. – This was taken from the Adult Day Health Services Policy and Procedures...
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by admin | Nov 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
It can be really unfortunate – that is the stigma associated with nursing homes – that began 50 years ago and in the minds of many lingers into 2014. Many of these facilities operate in a cash negative position with the national average for nightly care...
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by admin | Nov 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
The rise of the residential adult day care program is real and visible. Serving 8 to 14 people in a private home during the day for people who cannot be left home alone as they battle dementia and catastrophic injury is a real community booster. People are helped to...
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by admin | Nov 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
From Georgia to Nevada regulators are making accommodations for what some consider a less traditional approach to adult day services. For a generation we have viewed adult day care as a larger program, typically operating in a commercial building. If you read some...
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by admin | Nov 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
The care business is tricky in many ways. Most of us can recall the days when all that mattered for a hospital was to be open and responsive. Many were not as customer responsive as we would have liked them to be but we all looked up to them as the community...
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by admin | Oct 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
In 1995 when the publishers of this blog began our foray into adult day care we were aware that public funds could be used to pay for services. The Medicaid waiver was actually new to Wayne County, Michigan and providers of the various services purchased under the...
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by admin | Oct 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Success in adult day care rests with many factors. These include having a clinically competent and properly managed memory care initiative, outstanding sanitation program and a meaningful activities routine. And yet all of these revolve around one other critical...
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by admin | Oct 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
This week we spent time enjoying the open house event of Open Heart Community Care’s adult day care program. We thank those who phoned later in the day indicating they could not join us but asked for a time to visit later. This is an enhanced social model...
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by admin | Sep 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
A one-word answer, YES. Adult day services are the premier approach to long-term care without causing major emotional disruption in people or forcing them out of their homes. They get supervision, rehabilitation, interaction with others, meals they might skip at...
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by admin | Sep 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
I can recall the day Friendly Adult Day Care & Respite Center added the work of a podiatrist to those who attended to our program participants. It was needed since we served a number of diabetics and their families could not take days off work to take them back...
