adult day care
Daytime elder program
Adult day care is a supervised program where elderly or disabled adults receive care, activities, and social interaction during daytime hours while their regular caregivers are at work or need respite.
Facilities typically provide meals, health monitoring, and structured activities: Mom goes to adult day care three days a week.
The term parallels child day care but serves a different population.
- family caregiverRelative tending sick kin
- drop-off serviceGoods left for another
- senior centerFacility serving older adults
- meal preparationReadying food for eating
- health monitoringObserving physical condition regularly
dietitians · caregiver · social workers · support groups · medication management · socialization · transportation services · nurses · physical therapists · home health aides · Alzheimer's · wheelchair ramps · exercise programs · occupational therapists · hospice · morning routine · arts and crafts · activities
- Care Servicesbabysitting, pet sitting, house sitting, daycare, childcare
- caregivingcaregiver, nurture, look after, watch over, tend to
- elder caregerontologist, geriatrician, geriatric nurse, geriatric medicine, assisted living
- eldercareaging in place, assisted living, caregiver stress, caregiving, home health aides
- Elder Lawelder abuse, elder rights, elder neglect, eldercare, senior services
- agingaging process, aging body, biological age, aging workforce, aging parents
adult day careresidential care
Supervised communal living arrangement
nursing home · assisted living facility · long-term care facility · inpatient care · live-in care
adult day caredaycare center
Facility for young children
childcare · preschool · nursery · nursery school · after-school program