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Adult Day Care Centers

Adult Day Care Week The Congress, by Public Law 100 - 344, has designated the week beginning on the third Sunday of September as
National Adult Day Care Center Week

Adult Day Care Centers are great venues for senior and some younger daycare vanentertainment. The clients range in age from 21 to very old.
Most are over 50 but not always.

They usually spend the day from something like 8AM to 4PM with a nurse of hand on so that they can be cared for and get help with medications etc.
Many clients are not yet retirement age but are disabled and can collect SSI.
The facilities have activities as the main occupation for the day. Sometimes day trips are scheduled.

  Music plays a vital part in keeping the clients happy.

From experience, I can tell you that the big event of the day or week or month is when the entertainer comes.
When you have a large range of ages, you have to mix the repertoire carefully.

When I come to an Adult Day Care Center to do a show I look around the room as I'm setting up my equipment and chat with the people nearest me.

Adult Day Care By observing the age and other things about the clients in the room, I can have a better idea of what kind of music to play.

The 45 - 55 year olds know Billy Joel, John Denver and James Taylor, etc.. Elderly Dancers

The 55 - 62 year olds will know the Beatles and 60 - 70 year old ones will know Elvis and even older will like Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and the Andrew sisters, etc.

Some songs are appropriate for all of them such as "John Denver's "Country Roads". You'll have to learn to read the room.

Proclamation 5855

National Adult Day Care Center Week, 1988

September 8, 1988

 By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation  

The number of older Americans continues to grow, thanks in part to advances in medical care and technology and better understanding of the ways nutrition, behavior, and environment affect health. Most senior citizens are active in their communities; but some cannot be so. For them we seek ways to continue or initiate every possible measure of independence, dignity, and integration in family and community life. We do so not only out of recognition of all that today's older citizens have achieved over the years, but also because of our long national history and heritage of respect for the elderly and reverence for the individual dignity and worth inherent in each of us alike.

 One way that Americans are helping older citizens is by establishing adult day care centers. Some 1,200 such centers now serve older Americans who are frail, disabled, or requiring regular medical care and who might otherwise need care in a long-term facility. These centers often exist in hospitals, nursing homes, and senior centers; they offer a range of programs from health services to therapy, meals, and social activities. The centers benefit the elderly -- and give a vital assist to dedicated family caregivers so they can meet their own needs.

 The number of adult day care centers has grown rapidly over the past two decades, and State and Area Agencies on Aging, as well as social service and health care agencies, support the creation of additional centers across our country. Concerned citizens can and should work with their States and Area Agencies on Aging to see that their community has one of these truly beneficial adult day care center programs.

The Congress, by Public Law 100 - 344, has designated the week beginning on the third Sunday of September 1988 as ``National Adult Day Care Center Week'' and authorized and requested the President to issue a proclamation in observance of this occasion.

Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning the third Sunday of September 1988 as National Adult Day Care Center Week, and I call upon the people of the United States to observe this occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirteenth.

 Ronald Reagan

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 9:17 a.m., September 9, 1988] 

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