- Grownup day care facilities present essential, reasonably priced aid for caregivers, particularly members of the “sandwich era” who’re taking good care of dad and mom and youngsters on the similar time. However the estimated 3,100 packages serving an estimated 200,000 folks nationally are underneath fixed menace from insufficient funding.
- The approaching wave of ageing child boomers will dramatically intensify demand for elder care, and put strain on the federal price range, whereas a rising “forgotten center” of seniors — too rich for Medicaid, too poor for personal care — falls by the cracks of the present funding system.
- There are some promising coverage experiments in grownup day care, however advocates say they’re nonetheless combating to guard what exists somewhat than broaden to fulfill rising wants.
You stroll into the room and an entire crowd of individuals is belting out an uneven however spirited model of “Ain’t No Mountain Excessive Sufficient” by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. A former lawyer wearing a Beatles T-shirt faucets his knees as if he have been knowledgeable drummer. One other man, lengthy and lanky in a well-pressed go well with, closes his eyes and quietly sings the refrain with actual feeling: “Ain’t no valley low sufficient / ain’t no river broad sufficient / to maintain me from gettin’ to you, babe.”
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