Planning and Managing Adult Day Care: Pathways to Success.

Each of these three "how to" guides concisely describes administrative, facility and staff, and progam componets common to adult daycare (ADC), showing consensus on the following characteristics:

Administrating begins with a working board, representing the skills and community involved in ADC, to set goals that promote functional abilities of participants and give respite to families. Financial management is complex because the average consumer cannot pay the full cost of service, requiring ADCs to diversity income sources. Marketing targets the groups that could benefit from ADC and idividualizes the messages to show now ADC gives what each group wants. Operating …