Celebrate National Adult Day Services Week
National Adult Day Services Week is September 21-27, 2025
This special week has been celebrated annually since it was initially proclaimed on September 27, 1983 and reaffirmed by former President Ronald Reagan on September 8, 1988. The week beginning the third Sunday of September is designated as National Adult Day Services Week.
The 2025 National Adult Day Services Week theme is: “ADS at the Crossroads: Policy, Practice, Progress”
- Policy & Advocacy: Grassroots efforts, leveraging research-based policy.
- Provider Practice: Care design, operations, caregiver programs.
- Progress Metrics: Measuring impact via research, standards, data collection.
Why theme works: Ties clinical/practical tracks to systemic change, energizing providers to also step into advocacy roles.
Check out these resources and start planning ways to celebrate!
Here are two flyers, one which allows you to add your center’s logo in the lower left-hand corner (Word version). The other flyer is is a PDF that celebrates ADS Week from a national perspective.
National Adult Day Services Week provides a terrific opportunity to showcase the services and programs provided to meet the needs and enhance the lives of participants through adult day services. Tweet your activities. Use photos and links to increase engagement. Add the hashtag #ADSWeek2025 to your tweets so that all NADSA followers can see them.
- Consider highlighting employees and volunteers who make service delivery possible.
- Interview and share stories with the media from families and participants who live better as a result of utilizing Adult Day Services.
- Tell how your center provides enhancement in programming – Doing well in Adult Day Services; implementing person-centered practices.
- Demonstrate how your center works well, e.g. fiscal wellness; board wellness; staffing wellness; investing in professional development; strategic planning to prepare for changing health care environment.
- Promote Self Care/Staff Care – Being well with unplugging; scheduled vacations; grief management for losses we experience; yoga/ exercise/ diet/ meditation.
- Describe care for participants and care for their family caregivers – How ADS enhances life for both groups; How to assist family caregivers; serving diverse populations.
- “Like” https://www.facebook.com/NationalAdultDayServicesAssociation.