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Adult Day Health Care
Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) is a licensed community-based day care program providing a variety of health, therapeutic, and social services to those at risk of being placed in a nursing home. Currently, over 300 centers exist in many urban and rural areas of the state.
The centers are licensed by the California Department of Health Services. The Department of Aging's role is to administer the program and certify each center for Medi-Cal reimbursement.
The primary objectives of the program are to:
- Restore
or maintain optimal capacity for self-care to frail elderly
persons and other other adults with physical or mental disabilities;
and
- Delay or prevent inappropriate or personally undesirable institutionalization.
The program stresses partnership with the participant, the family, the physician, and the community in working towards maintaining personal independence. In some situations, individuals already institutionalized may be placed back in the community with ADHC assistance and support services.
Each ADHC location has a multidisciplinary team of health professionals who conduct a comprehensive assessment of each potential participant to determine and plan the ADHC services needed to meet the individual's specific health and social needs. Services provided at the center include: medical services; nursing services; physical, occupational and speech therapy; psychiatric and psychological services; social services; planned recreational and social activities; hot meal and nutritional counseling; and transportation to and from the center.