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Antoinette Boulay asked:




The term daycare conjures up visions of toys, playpens and nap time in settings offered for kids. Be it an infant daycare, older kids daycares where working parents drop children off in the morning, or after school care centers keeping school-age kids busy working on assignments until parents can come pick them up, this kind of setting is familiar to most parents everyone.

But there is another kind of daycare, one geared to a more elderly population. Respite care makes available daycare for seniors; these options reverse the trend of handing elderly patients over to the care of nursing homes.

Typical working families have no space or time available to let them care full time for a senior in need of aid. Now that the population as a group is living longer and this is prone to incapacitating diseases, including different forms of dementia, respite care gives sorely needed support.

Adult daycare is a temporary respite care service that replaces the family care when it’s members are not available. Generally given in a nursing home or designated adult daycare center, elderly may take creative classes, be present at social activities, or enjoy movies and other activities. More importantly, trained professionals provide supervision and care along with medical intervention if required. Staff maintains working relationships with clinics or hospitals and can take part in individual care.

This simple form of respite care is making it feasible for elderly people to stay in their homes and stay out of full time nursing homes. Diverse models of adult daycare comprise the respite care system:

One kind of adult day healthcare setting has a lower caregiver to patient proportion; these are generally reserved for seniors suffering from dementia. Caregivers are specifically trained in handling these patients and associated problems. It is a good pick for the person needing specialized care due to illness.

The other kind of adult day is caters to those not suffering from dementia, but have other illnesses which requires specific treatment, meals, and medication administration.