Word: adult
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adult day care centers are, for a growing number of Americans, a happy solution to the problems posed by infirmity and old age. For people like Crandall, who are disabled but not in need of full-time nursing care, they fill the vital gap between neighborhood senior citizen centers, which are generally not equipped for the handicapped, and dreaded institutionalization. For families of the infirm elderly they offer welcome relief from the strain of providing full-time care for an ailing relative at home and from the guilt that often comes from banishing that person to a nursing home, perhaps...
Though England has had "day hospitals" since the 1950s, they are a relatively recent innovation in the U.S. Adult day care centers grew out of disillusionment with nursing homes, many of which are known for rising costs, all but endless waiting lists and neglect of patients. In 1974 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare added an incentive by agreeing to channel Medicaid funds toward programs designed to take the place of nursing homes. Massachusetts, California and Georgia led the way. Within four years some 275 adult day care facilities had been established. Today there are about 800 such centers...
...centers are diverse. Basically, there are two types: adult day "health" centers, where the focus is on providing medical services such as physical and speech therapy; and "social" day care centers, which stress social and recreational activities, though they too may have nurses and therapists on staff. Costs range from $11.82 a day, at one notably inexpensive center in Lincoln, Neb., to $50, with additional charges where transportation is provided. Patients typically spend two or three days a week in day care. Nursing homes, by contrast, charge an average $30 to $40 a day, some as much as $70-seven...
...pawnshop window, or avoiding the camera's eye on the 10 o'clock news. They are faces too tough to be scared and too unsure to be anything else. They hold mocking, omniscient mouths and a tough-guy stare that could burn a hole in an adult's best intentions. They are the faces of the young urban underclass...
...Mozart in the upcoming Paris production of the Broadway hit Amadeus, he cast his eye near and far, and finally settled on near. He chose himself. After all, who better to capture the essence of the young musical prodigy with the libertine air than a child actor turned acclaimed adult director with a sometime taste for the reckless moment. Polanski, who will direct the play, which stars Francois Périer, 62, as Mozart's nemesis Antonio Salieri, and Actress Sonia Vollereaux, 22, as Mozart's wife, has been taking crash diction courses to smooth the Polish lilt...