Generations Elder Care is a social adult day care program for individuals requiring more assistance than provided at a senior center, but less than a full medical day program. We assist older adults who cannot manage all of the tasks of daily living by themselves. The program helps many people maintain their maximum potential functioning through companionship, activities, and professional supervision.
Generations Elder Care offers respite opportunities for families. It helps ease tension caregivers may feel when there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to juggle career, family, and caregiving responsibilities. Our goal is to provide higher quality of life to challenged adults and their families. Elder adults follow a stimulating schedule of group discussions, arts and crafts, games, musical activities, chair exercises, nutritious meals, intergenerational programs, and reminiscing. Rest and relaxation breaks are included throughout the day. Staff encourages the adults to participate in activities specifically designed to give them a feeling of success and to heighten their socialization, perception, and physical abilities.
Generations offers Elder Care at its Gates Center. Several transportation options are available, including private carriers and our Generations bus. Inter-generational programs link the generations with each other through a variety of planned activities and informal get-togethers. Our little ones from Child Care and the “Grandmas” and “Grandpas” from Elder Care find countless ways to enjoy each other.
Enrollment Procedure
To begin the admissions process, please contact Donna Delvecchio, Intergenerational Coordinator to determine whether the elder’s needs can be met by our program. Call Donna at (585) 613-7579.
Intergenerational Programming
As part of our mission, Generations participates in intergenerational programming! This means children and seniors come together regularly to get to know each other, work on activities and share their thoughts. Both children and seniors benefit from these relationships in so many ways. Simply watching their faces is clear evidence of the joy created when the generations mingle. Whether at Generations own social adult care program, at off-site assisted living facilities or long term care homes, Generations is committed to bringing the young and old together.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Aging Initiative, Intergenerational programming has benefits for all involved. Read more about how this aspect of our program can benefit your loved one.
Enhances Social Skills: Interaction with older adults enhances communication skills, promotes self-esteem, develops problem-solving abilities, and fosters friendships across generations. Positive attitudes are developed regarding sense of purpose and community service. Additionally, youth involved in mentoring programs have been show to be almost one-third less likely to hit others.
Improves Academic Performance: Intergenerational programs increase school attendance and performance. Students tutored by older adults made significantly greater gains in achievement test scores than other students.
Decreases Drug Use: Youth involved in intergenerational mentoring programs are 46% less likely to report the initiation of drug use, and among minority youth that statistic increased to 70%.
Increases Stability: Children and youth gain positive role models with whom they can interact on a regular basis. Older adult volunteers help to provide children and youth with consistency through mentoring and in child care facilities that average a 25-35% turnover rate.
Enhances Socialization: Older adults remain productive, useful, and contributing members of society. They increase interaction with children and youth and engage more with one another to prevent isolation in later years.
Stimulates Learning: Older adults learn new innovations and technologies from their younger counterparts.
Increases Emotional Support: Intergenerational programs afford older adults an opportunity to participate in a meaningful activity. This decreases loneliness, boredom, and depression while increasing self-esteem. Older volunteers report more enriched lives, a rejuvenated sense of purpose, and increased coping skills for their personal struggles.
Improves Health: Helping contributes to the maintenance of good health, and can diminish the effect of psychological and physical diseases and disorders.
