day program

Non-residential structured activities

A day program is a structured set of activities or services that participants attend during daytime hours without overnight stay.

The term appears most often in healthcare and social services: rehabilitation day programs for people recovering from injury, adult day programs providing supervision and activities for elderly or disabled individuals, or therapeutic day programs as alternatives to inpatient psychiatric care.

After his stroke, he attended a day program three times a week for physical therapy.

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residential status

day programresidential treatment

Therapeutic program with lodging

residential facility · inpatient care · group home · halfway house · nursing home

care intensity/structure

day programindependent living

Managing without assistance

outreach services

Family

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