Welcome to National Adult Day Services Week: Celebrating Success and Creating a Roadmap for the Future!
There has never been a more critical time for ADS professionals to come together to solidify our place in long-term care. The pandemic has ensured that the ways we serve seniors, veterans, and the IDD population are forever changed. Celebrating Success and Creating a Roadmap for the Future! will highlight and celebrate all the accomplishments of ASD while focusing on new methods, techniques and models to strengthen our profession.
This special week has been celebrated annually since it was proclaimed on September 27, 1983, by former President Ronald Reagan. The third complete week of September is set aside to raise awareness of the availability and accessibility of Adult Day programs nationwide.
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 #ADSWeek2023 to your tweets so that all NADSA followers can see them.
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 in Chicago, IL September 27-29 for this year’s National Conference.