Reduce the disincentives to implementing such a plan. Encourage a user friendly system for all potential users not just impaired elders. Allow system to generate revenue to offset expenses while encouraging low income sliding scale. Provide incentives to insurance companies to offer low cost liability insurance for this enterprise. Adult day care programs presently meet some needs in the community.
Available programs are too few and too limited.
Adult day care for many adults is a logical and cost effective program of care to support individuals in their desire to remain in their own or their children's home. Community-based care coordination is essential to support people remaining in the least restrictive living situation. Care coordination must be seamless throughout the entire health and social care spectrum and must be proactive rather than reactive in its approach. Obviously, this is another primary consideration in planning community based services. Early detection and prevention of the debilitating symptoms could extend the chronicity of this disease and enable people to live in a supportive, structured community which is able to adapt to the changing needs of its community.