Grants for starting an Adult Day Care Center

Because adult daycare services represent an important community need, both government and nonprofit organizations offer grants to assist with their creation. Although finding a grant to cover the entire cost of an adult daycare center's construction and upkeep is unlikely, grants that support particular programs that can be offered by the daycare center will help make offering quality care easier.
Social Services Block Grant

The Social Services Block Grant is a federal program that awards funds to states for the provision of social services. Although states determine which agencies and projects can receive the funds, the United States Department of Health and Human Services reports that one type of program supported by these grants is adult daycare. Furthermore, the grant is intended to help individuals become independent, self-sufficient and to reduce neglect. Organizations starting an adult daycare center can learn more about opportunities through their states by contacting their state departments of social services.
Administration on Aging Grants

Because many people consuming adult daycare centers are the elderly, the Administration on Aging offers a number of grants that can be used to fund adult daycare centers where the elderly reside. For example, in 2011, the AOA made funds available to State Units on Aging for the creation of a statewide services network capable of caring for dementia patients. The administration also offers grants to nonprofit, educational and academic organizations for research and services in the area of respite care and caregiver support, nutrition, research and the prevention of elder abuse. Organizations and states wanting to create adult daycare facilities may be eligible for some of these funds, depending on what kind of residents they will serve and what types of services they will provide.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grants

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers grant funds to public universities, nonprofit organizations and other public agencies for the improvement of health-care services, including adult daycare. Although the foundation prefers to grant programs that can be easily assessed, such as research and training initiatives, organizations that want to start or reorganize adult daycare facilities may be eligible for grants to fund a part of their projects, such as staff training or innovative programs.

Department of Veterans Affairs Grants

Since many veterans are in need of adult day services, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs offers project grants for the creation of community programs for eligible veterans. Adult daycare centers that will offer services to veterans and agree to receive per diem compensation from the VA may be eligible, as long as they offer all of the medical services required by the federal agency. Organizations interested in creating such a program should visit the VA website for more information.

How adult day care is shaping the healthcare field

There are more than 4,600 adult day services centers across the U.S. — a 35% increase since 2002.

• More than 260,000 participants and family caregivers are serviced — an increase of over 100,000, or 63%, since 2002.

Adult Day care has become an integral part of the healthcare continuum for the elderly and for people with developmental disabilities since its inception 25 years ago in the United States. It cares for the elderly by helping them with Daily activities of Living, by supressing their loneiness, giving them a place to go to every day to visit with friends and in some cases has saved their lives. There is an adult day care center in Bayonne, New Jersey who's nurses were so attentive to their clients physical states that they noticed small changes in their health which led to them calling the client's doctors. They reported the changes to the doctors, the clients were seen by their doctors and life changing procedures were done to save their lives. Both clients are still happily attending the adult day care center.

Adult day care and Assisted Living Group, LLC has been assisting nurses, hospitals, nursing homes, entrepeneurs and Universities to start successful adult day care centers for the past 18 years. It is our pleasure to serve you and to make Adult Day Care the leading choice in daily senior care in the United States. We have also assisted Poland, Spain, the Virgin Islands, Argentina and China create Adult Day Care Centers.

Adult Day Centers Provide Important Services

Adult day services centers serve as an emerging provider of transitional care and short-term rehabilitation following hospital discharge. As a preferred platform for chronic disease management, adult day centers are an interactive, safe and secure environment for participants requiring supervised daily care. While nearly half of all participants nationally have some level of dementia, other common chronic diseases among participants include chronic hypertension, physical disability, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental illness and developmental disability. Adult day services provide a reliable source of support, restore balance in times of crisis, and enhance overall quality of life for caregivers.

Bundled Payment Program

For those coming out of the hospital to recover in an assisted living or adult day care center a new bundling program announced by the Department of Health and Human services (HHS) will seek to improve patient care at the hospital and post-release, marking the latest attempt by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to coordinate care and payment through the post-acute care phase of the care continuum.

HHS said doctors, hospitals and other health care providers can apply to participate in the bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative. "It will align payments for services delivered across an episode of care, such as heart bipass or hip replacement, rather than paying for services separately. Bundled payments will give doctors and hospitals new incentives to coordinate care, improve the quality of care, and save money for Medicare," HHS said in a statement.

The Bundled Payments initiative is being launched by the new Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, created by the Affordable Care Act to find better ways to provide and pay for health care to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.

What is Adult Day Care

Adult day service centers provide a coordinated program of professional and compassionate services for adults in a community-based group setting. Services are designed to provide social and some health services to adults who need supervised care in a safe place outside the home during the day. They also afford caregivers respite from the demanding responsibilities of caregiving. Adult day centers generally operate during normal business hours five days a week. Some programs offer services in the evenings and on weekends. Although each facility may differ in terms of features, these general services are offered by most adult day centers:
Social activities

interaction with other participants in planned activities appropriate for their conditions
Transportation

door-to-door service
Meals and snacks

participants are provided with meals and snacks, those with special dietary needs are offered special meals
Personal care

help with toileting, grooming, eating and other personal activities of daily living
Therapeutic activities

exercise and mental interaction for all participants.

In general, there are three types of adult day centers: social (which provides meals, recreation and some health-related services), medical/health (which provides social activities as well as more intensive health and therapeutic services) and specialized (which provide services only to specific care recipients, such as those with diagnosed dementias or developmental disabilities. Caregivers typically select the type of center a care recipient attends based on the care needed.

Senior Care Merger to own More ADC Centers

SENIOR CARE CENTERS OF AMERICA ANNOUNCES MERGER WITH ACTIVE DAY TO BECOME THE LARGEST OPERATOR OF ADULT DAY SERVICES IN THE U.S.

Senior Care Centers of America, the second largest operator of adult day services, announced on Monday, September 26, 2011, that Active Day, the largest operator of adult day services, has agreed to merge with Senior Care. The combined organization will have 76 centers in 11 states and will substantially surpass the size of its nearest competitor. After the merger, Active Day will be a subsidiary of Senior Care, and the ownership of Senior Care will remain essentially unchanged. Jim Donnelly, CEO of Senior Care, will lead the combined organization. Selected members of the Active Day management team will continue to work in the combined entity. The merger is expected to close in November 2011.

The Aging States of America

As the baby boomers grow older, America is getting older too, According to the 2010 census, the nation's median age has increased to 37.2 up from 35.3 in 2000. The aging trend held up in every state -only the District of Columbia has a younger median age now than adecade ago. For states have major implications for policy and politics. Older states, such as Maine, Vermont, West Virginia and New Hampshire, may have less time than others to prepare for challenges such as providing long-term care for a growing elderly population.At the same time, younger states such as Utah and Texas must wrestle with educating relatively large school- age populations.

Adult day care and assisted living facilities are a viable solutions to our country's aging population in terms of caring for the elders in our communities. Let's continue to assist our communities with these services.