Long Term Care Blog 2

Who had ever heard of a Adult Day Care. Not me. After hearing the term I was intrigued to find out more about it. Do they treat them like children? Do they have little pins set up where they can play in? Those are the things I think about when I hear Day Care. The book describes it as a service that "provides daily (not overnight) services for chronically ill individuals who are not able to function on their own but are able to live at home with the assistance of informal caregivers" (pg 19). These individuals are given the care that they need during the day that their usual caregiver provides for them. They aren't treated like children, but better yet, and special individuals with their every need being cared for. It might be a funny name for the service, but whoever came up with it was a genius. These elders can come in the comfort of knowing that they have certified people to tend to them while they are there during the day. The formal caregivers (staff members of health care organizations) provide for their needs while the informal caregivers (family members) cannot. What is special about the formal caregivers is their true desire to want to help the ones that cannot help themselves.