What is an adult day program?

The adult day program gives caregivers time off from their important responsibilities while seeing to it that their family member that needs care is safe and secure and receives priority care and tender supervision.

Professionals who care and understand have developed Garden View adult day program. Garden View Care Centers are the leaders in the care for the elderly in the St. Louis area and therefore the best qualified to offer an adult day program. Top professionals have applied the learning and expertise gained in many years of work with adults to create and implement Garden View’s Adult Day Program.

How does adult day program work?

Families can bring a family member to Garden View Care Center of Chesterfield in the morning and pick them up at the end of the day.
Garden View professionals understand how care works. Our professionals understand the needs of participants in the program, but also the concerns and stresses of caregivers and family members.

Who benefits from the adult day program?

Both families and adult day program participants benefit. Caregivers get a Day Off and participants get a Day Out. In either situation everyone enjoys meaningful and productive days. The adult day program at Garden View helps the whole family.

What do participants do as part of the adult day program at Garden View?

a. Activity is the key.

More and more, we learn that seniors thrive and maintain their health and mental sharpness when they do meaningful activities. Garden View has developed a daily program that offers a wide array of activities designed to challenge and engage participants.

b. Activities include:

— Live musical performances: Musicians in training in the Department of Music at the University of Missouri St. Louis provide live entertainment to adult day program participants. Our mini-concerts include everything from classics, jazz, country, sing-alongs, standards, and much-much more. It’s a lot of fun.

— Marvelous meals: Program participants receive great meals prepared by Garden View staff chefs. Each table is set gracefully with china, silverware and glassware and served by waiters and waitresses in the elegantly decorated Garden View dining room. It’s dining out every day with friends.

— Outings: Program participants may take part in outings to restaurants, museums, sporting events, local fairs and events, shopping and much, much more.

— Recreation and exercise: Participants enjoy recreational activities such as walking in the gardens, exercise programs or practicing their golf swings or putting.

— Friendships: Participants make friends as they enjoy good conversation, fellowship, and adult recreational activities in our New York room

— Café and ice cream parlor: Participants enjoy coffee and snacks in the café and daily ice cream socials in the ice cream parlor

— Beauty and the barbershop: Top professionals provide hair and nail services.

How is Garden View adult day program staffed?

The program is staffed with a program director, activity coordinators, and other professionals.

Where does Garden View adult day program take place?

The adult day program is available at each of the Garden View Care Center locations. Participants in the program have access to beautiful recreation and living room areas, café and dining services, an entertainment room, and spacious patio and garden areas. Additional services available include beauty/barber shop, ocupational, speech and/or physical therapy, podiatry services and others.

How does the adult day program help other family members and caregivers?

If you are the caregiver of a senior, Garden View Care Center’s Adult Day Program gives you a little time away from your important responsibilities, a moment to yourself, and opportunity to do some errands and get things done that maybe you’ve been putting off.

Are special health services available?

Special therapy and doctor visits are available.The mission of Garden View adult day program is to promote the highest quality of life through shared relationships between participants, their primary caregivers and family members, and professional Garden View staff.

How can I find out more?

The best way to learn more about what the Adult Day Care Program has to offer is to meet with one of our admissions coordinatiors. You are invited to take a tour and see Garden View’s activity based Day Care Program in action.