LIFE's Adult Day Health provides daily services to adults who have physical or cognitive impairments such as:

• Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

• Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

• Diabetes

• Epilepsy

• Heart disease

• Hypertension

• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

• Osteo and rheumatoid arthritis

• Parkinson's disease

• Pulmonary hypertension

• Renal disease

• Stroke

• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

• Vision and hearing impairments

Adult Day Health offers many benefits for participants. Seniors who attend our programs:

• Are able to live at home with their family

• Remain independent longer

• Have a higher level of self-esteem

• Have more control over their lives and decisions about their future

• Engage in meaningful activities and events

• Make new friends

• Stay socially connected

• Are safe and secure

LIFE's Adult Day Health plays an important role in the continuum of care for older adults who would benefit from supportive services throughout the day.

LIFE's Adult Day Health serves older adults who:

• Have Alzheimer's disease or other dementia

• Have physical impairments

• Have chronic health conditions that require routine management

• Are socially isolated and/or experience depression

• Need assistance with activities of daily living

• Have chronic mental health disorders

• Would benefit from not being home alone all day

Making the Referral: Your proactive referral will allow LIFE Senior Services to follow up and contact the family directly, increasing the likelihood that the services you recommend will be put in place.

LIFE's Family Assistance Coordinators offer personalized service in the following ways:

• Sets up meetings with you, your patient and/or your patient's family during hospitalization or while receiving in-home care to discuss the many ways Adult Day Health can enhance the recovery process and provide caregiver support.

• Contacts and follows up with your patient and their family caregiver after discharge to encourage follow-through on your recommendations.

• Answers questions or arranges for a tour to get the enrollment process started.

For more information, call LIFE's SeniorLine at (918) 664-9000.

At LIFE's Adult Day Health, our programs and activities for seniors and adults with disabilities are designed to promote socialization, lifelong learning and days filled with purpose and self-esteem. Days are geared for each individual's needs and preferences and are designed to increase and maintain physical skills and abilities as well as provide an environment of engagement and fun for all participants:

• Focus on wellness and fitness

• Therapeutic individual and group activities

• Activities adapted for all levels of abilities, including Alzheimer's/dementia

• Bingo, card games of all types

• Daily exercise classes including the Arthritis Foundation exercise class, taught by certified staff

• Wii bowling, golf and fishing

• Active games of skill (and chance) including horseshoes, bowling, Blongo and Frisbee golf

• Current events, reminiscing, discussion groups, reading

• Brain fitness activities

• Computer games, internet access and computer classes with adaptive hardware and software for seniors and other adults

• Gardening, cooking, woodworking, tinkering

• Art, crafts, music

• Community outings

• Special guests, including therapy dogs, musicians, historians, children and many more

• Special clubs including a men's group, book club and the Red Hat Society

• Themed days (Hersey's Kiss Day, Veteran's Day, Western Day)

Person-Centered Approach

​LIFE's Adult Day Health practices a philosophy of person-centered care, recognizing each person's abilities and potential. We provide a rewarding, positive social environment, responding to each person's mind, body and spirit.

An individualized care plan, based on interests, needs, abilities and personal goals is developed to ensure that participants receive the appropriate care, attention and services they need.

At LIFE's Adult Day Health, we provide personal care and basic health services designed to keep seniors and other adults healthy and safe while they spend their days with us, engaged in programs and activities. Caregivers have peace of mind, knowing that they are in a safe secure environment. Health services may include the following:

• Vital signs and weights checked monthly (or more frequently if requested by a physician)

• Assistance with personal care including toileting, bathing and eating

• Physical assistance with ambulation, grooming, self-feeding

• Rehabilitative services including physical, occupational and speech therapies

• Nutritious (and delicious) meals and snacks

• Special diets including liberalized diabetic, renal, and pureed

• Medication administration

• Glucose monitoring

• Injections

• Breathing treatments

• Minor wound care treatment

• Routine care for chronic illnesses

• Person-Centered Approach

We are committed to person-centered care, recognizing each person's preferences, abilities and potential in a rewarding, positive social environment. Along with program participants and family members, our interdisciplinary team develops an individualized plan of care. This care plan is reviewed every six months. We believe that each person makes a difference and that everyone, regardless of age, should be independent and continue to grow and dream.