Easter Seals Adult and Senior Services

For more than 20 years, Easter Seals Adult Day Services have put hope within reach for thousands of adults. Easter Seals provides a variety of home and community-based services affording adults and seniors opportunities to live, learn, work and play as a vital part of their own community or neighborhood. These programs put hope within reach for adults with a developmental disability, persons with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia, as well as an individual with Multiple Sclerosis, or those who have had a stroke. In addition, these valuable programs offer respite, support, and education for family members and other caregivers.

The constellation of Adult and Senior services includes: supported living and other residential options, adult day centers, in-home care, transportation, and caregiver support. Not all programs are available in every location, to find out what services are available for adults, seniors, and their caregivers in your area contact Easter Seals for more information about Easter Seals services in your area.

Choosing an adult day program is an important and emotional decision. Mindy Propst, director of the Hagerstown, Maryland adult day center of Easter Seals Greater Washington-Baltimore Region, says the first step should be to assess you or your loved one's individual needs. "Typically a center's admissions representative can help you do that," she says. Over the next decade, over 71 million Americans will be 65 years of age or older. Current estimates are that among people aged 65 74, about 25 percent will have functional limitations with crucial everyday activities, such as bathing, eating, cooking or dressing, rising to 75 percent for those over age 85. More and more people with lifelong disabilities are living into old age, a previously unprecedented phenomenon. There is also an increasing number of people living longer with acquired chronic conditions such as hypertension, arthritis, coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes and hearing and vision impairments.

 Contact Easter Seals for more information about Easter Seals services in your area.