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by Newworld | Dec 21, 2014 | Blog, Blogs
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 Newworld | Dec 18, 2014 | Highly Effective American Programs, Training
We are seeing more and more of the residential model adult day care. Some are quite impressive and are plan of care driven and, due to being in residential settings, smaller and thereby more person-centered. Some of these are actually being courted by hospitals as a...
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by Newworld | Dec 7, 2014 | Blogs
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 Newworld | Nov 30, 2014 | Blogs
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 Newworld | Nov 20, 2014 | Blogs
“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 Newworld | Nov 16, 2014 | Blogs
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 Newworld | Nov 8, 2014 | Blogs
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 Newworld | Nov 5, 2014 | Blogs
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 Newworld | Nov 2, 2014 | Blogs
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 Newworld | Oct 25, 2014 | Blogs
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...
