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What is an Adult Day Health Program?

Updated on: June 15th, 2020 • Resource: Adult Foster Care, Home Health Care

Are you providing care for someone in your home? How well do you take care of them? Adult Day Health Programs of Massachusetts is there to help you out. They have a team of professionals to help you take care of seniors or other adults living with a disability. They even provide nursing staff to seniors and/or disabled adults living help prevent future health complications, and provide family support.

What services does Adult Day Health Programs of Massachusetts provide?

Through their services, they help provide essential medical services. This helps members avoid the high medical costs associated with being hospitalized, receiving emergency treatment, or being admitted to institutional care centers. Their services are also affordable or free of charge if the applicant has MassHealth insurance.

Adult day health programs Massachusetts provides the following services to its clients.

  • Management of chronic illnesses, as well as overall health of the client, and extra care.
  • Oftentimes, they offer treatment to clients suffering from any illness. This includes providing nurses, as well as managing wounds, injections and any other medical assistance required by the client to ensure they live a healthy life.
  • They ensure their clients have a daily intake of a balanced diet. They do this by providing two meals and snacks to all clients every single day.
  • They provide the necessary support and educate families as well as caregivers on better methods of taking care of their loved ones.
  • They provide therapies to clients in order to help them deal with cognitive problems and maintain good body strength.
  • They help clients complete daily normal chores like food preparation and doing the laundry, and other housekeeping activities.

Who would benefit from adult day health services?

The following people will benefit from their service

  • Seniors and other adults who are living with disabilities requiring constant care and monitoring.
  • Adults and seniors who are suffering from a mental illness and want to avoid the expenses that comes with hospitalization or institutional care.
  • Families and caregivers of seniors and caregivers.

Adult day health programs of Massachusetts has been at the forefront in ensuring that seniors and adults living with disabilities are able to enjoy a better quality of life. They also ease the burden to the immediate family by providing support. Their services are cost-effective and serve to avoid the high costs that come with being hospitalized or admitted to institutional care. Adult day health is a good support system for caregivers who are providing care to someone at home. Are you providing care for someone? You may qualify for a monthly payment. Apply now at www.MASSCARELINK.org

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