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Posted by admin on May 29, 2010

Starting an adult day care business is a smart investment for the business entrepreneur as well as for the senior citizens and the community it will serve. This article will explain the philosophy behind adult day care the three models of adult day care client description and 10 steps towards the development of your own adult day care business.

Adult Day Care Philosophy – Adult Day Care a part of the long-term continuum of care for the elderly, is guided by a specific philosophy of service: that philosophy views the individual client and the caregivers, whether family, friends, a spouse, or others, as a systemic unit sharing in the total care of the client. The provider of adult day care becomes part of that systemic unit of care offering aid and support to the individual client and caregivers.

Caregivers are able to rely on the staff of the adult day care center to provide experienced and respectful care for their parent, friend, or spouse. The adult day care provider joins with the family or other caregivers to provide care for the client that is consistent with the care provided at home. Because the care is consistent and regularly scheduled, primary caregivers are better able to plan for events in their own lives, and staff members are able to recognize and consult with primary caregivers concerning client progress in specific areas of activity and functioning. Staff may also offer consultation, information and referral programs to the caregiver to further the three guiding principles of an adult day care center: Maintenance, Restoration and Improvement.

Models of Adult Day Care -

Historically, there have been a number of models and mixes of models for adult day care services. The following three are pure type models.

1. The Medical Model – The staff will include at least one full-time registered nurse who is trained in geriatric care and will have available the services of a physician who is board certified in geriatric medicine. The services of the attached health care facility are available to the client as well as charting and records of client care will follow a medical format. Not all medical ADC’s are attached to a health care facility.

2. The Mental Health Model – Individual counseling is emphasized, as well as therapeutic group activities. There may also be a strong family therapy or family support group component in such programs. There are currently many Alzheimer’s ( Memory Care) focused adult day care centers.

3. The Social Model – Primary emphasis is placed on the socializing benefit of group activities. Staff may be especially alert to group dynamics from a perspective of encouraging client socialization and interaction and discouraging withdrawal and isolation.

10 Developmental Steps To Starting an AdultDayCareCenter

1. Educate yourself about Adult Day Care and get your state regulations. Visit a few adult day care centers to get an overall picture of a center. 2. Choose a location where you won’t compete with other centers and there is a need for your service. 3. Decide on the size of your center. How many people will you serve? 4. Decide which model of adult day care is best for your area. 5. Decide what services your center will provide. 6. Look at your finances, funding sources, potential partners, and overall costs of starting a new business. Crunch the numbers. 7. Realize that depending on your financials, you may not have a steady income for a while. 8. Know yourself are you an entrepreneur, can you multi task, do you have business experience or medical experience? 9. There can be many ups and downs when beginning a new project. Friends and family are helpful but may be your biggest critics and they know which of your buttons to push. You will need to be your biggest supporter.

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Posted by admin on May 26, 2010

In teaching music there is a perception that you need to teach adults with different methods than children. My experience is, that although you need to adapt to the maturity level for any given subject, the methods used to teach children can and are as effective for adults.

Lets take the case where I learned the music master staff along with other adults and children.

The OldWhen I was young I was taught with the pneumonic methods of FACE and Every Good Boy Does Fine. Although it worked to a point it never went far enough to give a solid basis in recognition other than to relate lines and spaces and a word game.

The NewYears later I started from scratch with a teacher promoting power learning techniques. The technique used was in story telling creating a new land that explored music. The story wove a tail of patterns and associations that put the entire master staff in perspective.

The TestingWhen I later talked about why the adults were taught with the children in this group setting, we discussed how she had tested teaching methods with adults.

The conclusion of the test for adults with these two different methods revealed that the story had profoundly better results. The adults retention rate was far superior when using the abstract story.

The EgoThe big concern with teaching adults is getting past ego. The trick is to use the same child teaching methods but without alienating the adults and their egos.

Of course that takes tact, diplomacy, and persuasion in many cases to help the adult over their mind set.

Experience – 15 plus years later For me the story stuck far more than the academic logic approach. That’s how I teach it to others today. I can recall the story or a version similar to it with very little effort.

Of course it’s more than just story telling. There are additional techniques, such as flash cards, that are used to reinforce the story and this concept of learning.

Give it a goSo I submit that you might try your own hand at this idea. If you are an adult student, see if you can sit in on some child classes. Observe if you don’t have a new perspective on what you are learning.

If you’re a teacher, invite your adults to participate in a child’s class or experiment with two sets of adults and test the results.

If you have a method that works well with adults, share it with the rest of us. We’d like to consider it as well.

Of course there is no way to please everyone. I believe the idea is to accomplish a quicker, faster, higher retention rate. Student and teacher satisfaction is really the goal, because with that your more likely to keep them coming back for more.

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Posted by admin on May 17, 2010

What is Adult Acne?

Adults also suffer with acne. Women are more prone to have adult acne. Adult acne differs from teenage acne due to the difference in cause. As we know that major cause of teenage acne is the hormonal imbalance. It is not the cause for adult acne. Adult acne occurs between the ages from 25 to 30. It is common belief that poor hygiene is responsible for the development of acne but in actual conditions acne is caused with a combination several factors. These factors include excess oil secretion, clogging of hair duct and bacterial infection. Currently more than half of women and quarter of men are suffering from adult acne. Adult acne is formed as result of plug formation. A plug is made up of fat, skin debris, and keratin. These plugs block hair ducts. As a result of this blockage inflammation occurs and pimple or papule appears. As long as these plugs remain inside they are termed as white heads but once they expose to outer surface of skin appear as blackheads.

Causes of Adult Acne

Hormones

Androgen is the male hormone found in both man and woman has important role in the development of adult acne. In women at the stage of menopause body reduces the synthesis of estrogen, due to this imbalance in estrogen concentration androgen becomes more active and directs sebaceous glands to produce excess amount sebum. Androgen can also provoke acne in adult women under stress conditions and pregnancy.

Over Production of Sebum from sebaceous Glands

In normal conditions sebaceous glands produces sebum that moves out through hair follicle and removes dead skin cells and bacteria from the surface of skin. In case of overproduction of sebum skin pores are fail to excrete out the overproduced sebum. This in turns block skin pores. Clogged skin pores contain mixture of sebum dead cells and surface bacteria. Clogged pores appear as whitehead when they are not exposed. Once whiteheads exposed to air also trapped dust particles and become black head. This will finally result as adult acne.

Bacteria

Certain specific bacteria live on the surface of all skin types. Propionibacterium acnes or P.acnes is naturally found over all skin types. In case of plugged follicles excess of sebum creates anaerobic environment for P.acnes to multiply. Anaerobic environment is very much favorable for the growth of P.acnes. Body’s immune system recognizes P.acnes as an antigen and starts producing antibodies to fight with bacteria. This will cause inflammation in the follicle and skin of effected area and appear as pimple.

Clogged Pores

Pores get clogged when dead cells did not shed and remain attached with skin. These dead cells mix with sebum and block the pore. Initially dead skin cells make whiteheads that are finally turn into black heads. Blackheads finally results in formation of pimples.

Local Inflammation

Local inflammation is the natural process termed as Chemotaxis. Chemotaxis starts when any foreign agent (bacteria or chemical) attacks on your body. Under such circumstances body natural immune system start producing white blood cells to kill the foreign agent. Intensity of this immune response differs from individual to individual. But it has observed that it is at extremes in adult women. That is the reason that adult women suffer with painful acne.

These are some basic reasons or causes for adult acne. Different treatments are available to treat adult acne. But one must take care of it while selecting any remedy or treatment because you can not treat adult acne as teenage acne due the difference in causes.

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Posted by admin on May 13, 2010

Adult day care centers, also known as adult day services, have been providing a form of respite for caregivers for more than thirty years. The number of centers has increased sharply over the years to keep pace with the demand for home and community based services.

Adult Day Services are daytime programs designed to need the needs of adults who need supervised care during the day while returning to their homes or the homes of their loved ones in the evenings. Regular use of the health and social services offered in these programs helps reduce the risk of hospitalization and provides access to health and social services in a supportive environment. Many family caregivers can continue working when they take advantage of adult day programs for their loved ones.

Adult day care centers provide a break (respite) to the caregiver while providing health services, therapeutic services, and social activities for people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, chronic illnesses, traumatic brain injuries, developmental disabilities, and other problems that increase their care needs. Some adult day care centers are dementia specific, providing services exclusively to that population. Other centers serve the broader population.

One difference between traditional adult (respite), both group and in-home care, and adult day care is that adult day centers not only provide respite to family caregivers but also therapeutic care for cognitively and physically impaired older adults.

What are the benefits of Adult Day Care?

Adult day care allows caregivers to continue working outside the home, receive help with the physical care of a loved one, avoid the guilt of placing a loved one in institutional care, and have respite from what can be a “24/7″ responsibility.

The care receiver can also benefit from adult day care. He or she is able to remain at home with family but does not require 24-hour care from the primary caregiver. Adult day care participants also have an opportunity to interact socially with peers, share in stimulating activities, receive physical or speech therapy if needed, and receive assistance with the activities of daily living with dignity.

Adult day services offer an individualized plan of care to meet the needs of each person attending. Participants attend on a scheduled basis and services may include supervision, meals and snacks, group and individual activities, formal exercise, intergenerational programming, health monitoring, caregiver support ,group nursing services, transportation, therapeutic art activities, therapeutic music programs, therapeutic programming with pets, podiatry, hair care, manicures, health care, medication management, shower/bath, medical evaluation, therapeutic dance activities, specialized diets, horticulture therapy, reminiscence therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and massage therapy.

It may be time to consider choosing an adult day program when someone you know appears unable to provide himself or herself with any structure for daily activities, is isolated from others for more than a few hours a day and misses companionship, cannot be safely left alone at home or lives with someone who works outside the home or needs regular time away from home for other reasons.

Long-Term care insurance can provide the funds to pay for this type of service. It is important to keep in mind that purchasing Long-Term care insurance once an individual is in need of these services is impossible. It is important to put a long-term care plan in place while you are healthy.

Consult with a Long-Term Care Specialist when choosing a policy to make sure that adult day services are covered under your plan.

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