Adult Day Care

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Namkee G. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Social Workers ◽  
Support Services ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Cognitively Impaired ◽  
Adult Day Care ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Essential Services ◽  
Important Health

Adult day care centers provide important health, social, and support services for functionally and cognitively impaired adults and their caregivers. The adult day care services are underutilized, however, because of the shortage of centers, caregivers' lack of awareness of and resistance to using services, and the mismatch between the needs of potential consumers and their informal caregivers and the services provided by the centers. To foster and support the expansion of adult day care centers, lessons learned from national demonstration programs need to be disseminated, and social workers need to be trained to provide essential services at the centers.

Day Care for Sick Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 598-598
Author(s):  
NEAL R. WEINBERG
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Parental Leave ◽  
Home Care Services ◽  
Working Parents ◽  
Full Agreement ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Sick Children ◽  
The Cost

To the Editor.— Dr Sterne's commentary (Pediatrics 1987;79:445-446) on day care for sick children presented a succinct summary of the dilemmas faced by working parents and the current options available to them when their children are ill. I am in full agreement that ideally there should be liberalized parental leave policies as well as improved understanding and acceptance of certain minor illnesses by existing day-care centers. However, because of the cost, it is doubtful that corporations can or will pay for home care services, which are twice as costly as an infirmary model, or will they be willing to grant additional paid days off to parents.

Productivity Analysis of Public Services

2010 ◽  
pp. 83-105
Author(s):  
Aki Jääskeläinen ◽  
Paula Kujansivu ◽  
Jaani Väisänen
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Productivity Analysis ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
High Productivity ◽  
Public Service Organizations ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Child Day Care ◽  
Service Productivity

Productivity is a key success factor in any organization. In order to improve productivity, it is necessary to understand how various factors affect it. The previous research has mainly focused on productivity analysis at macro level (e.g. nations) or in private companies. Instead, there is a lack of knowledge about productivity drivers in public service organizations. This study aims to scrutinize the role of various operational (micro level) factors in improving public service productivity. In particular, this study focuses on child day care services. First, the drivers of productivity are identified in light of the existing literature and of the results of workshop discussions. Second, the drivers most conducive to high productivity and the specific driver combinations associated with high productivity are defined by applying methods of data mining. The empirical data includes information on 239 day care centers of the City of Helsinki, Finland. According to the data mining results, the factors most conducive to high productivity are the following: proper use of employee resources, efficient utilization of premises, high employee competence, large size of day care centers, and customers with little need for additional support.

The reciprocal temporal associations between subjective age and social relations in adult day care centers over a one-year period

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-77
Author(s):  
Liat Ayalon ◽  
Ella Cohn-Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Care Center ◽  
Adult Day Care ◽  
Degree Centrality ◽  
Subjective Age ◽  
Day Care Centers ◽  
Day Care Center ◽  
One Year ◽  
First Time

Objectives: The present study evaluated the reciprocal temporal associations between one’s subjective age (or felt age) and one’s social relations in the adult day care center (ADCC) over two waves of data collection, spread about 1 year apart. Method: Participants from four ADCCs in Israel were approached in 2017 and repeatedly, in 2018 ( N = 224 in Wave 1 and N = 259 in Wave 2). The ADCC social network included both outgoing ties of familiar relationships with other ADCC members as reported by the respondent (out-degree centrality) and ingoing ties, based on reports of other ADCC members who were familiar with the respondent (in-degree centrality). Results: Out-degree and in-degree centrality at baseline were not associated with change in subjective age. Subjective age at the first time point was not associated with change in out-degree centrality, but it was negatively associated with change in in-degree centrality. Even after controlling for sociodemographic and health variables, adults who felt younger were subsequently cited by more ADCC members. Conclusions: The findings stress the importance of subjective age to one’s relationship in the ADCC. It is suggested that a younger subjective age is a desired quality in the ADCC.

scholarly journals L'utilisation des services de centre de jour par les personnes âgées qui présentent des incapacités

2007 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacinthe Savard ◽  
Nicole Leduc ◽  
Paule Lebel ◽  
François Béland ◽  
Howard Bergman
Keyword(s):  
Home Care ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Home Care Services ◽  
Adult Day Care ◽  
Catchment Population ◽  
Daily Life Activities ◽  
Care Services ◽  
University Degree

ABSTRACTThis study consists of a secondary analysis of data collected during the SIPA demonstration project. Its purpose is to identify the proportion of Adult Day Care (ADC) users as well as the determinants of use in this group of persons 65 years old and over receiving home care services in Montreal. Results show that 18.8% of the sample have at least one ADC presence during a 6 months study period. The following factors increase the probability of ADC use: being younger; not having a university degree; being born outside of Canada or for persons born in Canada, living with a caregiver; receiving help from the CLSC for daily life activities more than once a week; being in the catchment population of an ADC which fees are lower; and for men only, having had a stroke or presenting more functional incapacities.

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