Celebrate National Adult Day Services Week
National Adult Day Services Week is September 15-21, 2024
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.
Check out these resources and start planning ways to celebrate!
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 #ADSWeek2024 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.
An example of how life is enhanced for family caregivers is evidenced by research published by Bangerter, L. R., Liu, Y., Kim, K., Zarit, S. (2019). Adult day services and dementia caregivers’ daily affect: the role of distress response to behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia. Aging and Mental Health, DOI: 10.1080/13607863.2019.1681934. This article examines the psycho-behavioral mechanism on how daily ADS use may benefit caregivers’ daily affect through its impact on the distress associated with behavior and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) stressor exposure.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13607863.2019.1681934
Join us during National Adult Day Services Week in Atlanta, GA September 18-20 for this year’s National Conference.