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“I have one
of those
blessing jobs.”
That’s Kay Hudelson talking. She’s
the program director for Dignity
Health’s Golden Umbrella Adult
Day Program and Adult Day Health
Care. And she absolutely loves
her job.
The Adult Day Program serves
up meals, activities, and daytime
care for people with Alzheimer’s
disease and other conditions. Adult
Day Health Care provides medical
treatment, like nursing care, family
support, and speech and physi-
cal therapy.
More than 400 people have
taken part in the two programs
since 2008. Their average age: 82.
“Our whole goal is to help seniors
live as independently as possible
for as long as possible,” says
Hudelson. “We pick them up at
their homes and keep them active
in as many ways as we can.”
At the Adult Day Program, that
includes playing bingo and other
games, gardening, and doing crafts.
There’s a beauty shop on-site as
well. And both programs provide
healthy meals.
Maybe the best description of what
these programs do came from
a nurse who noticed a
Under the Golden Umbrella
Golden Umbrella is a social service agency that reaches out to seniors
and adults with disabilities.
Some of its programs and services are designed to help people
stay at home and avoid going into a skilled nursing facility. Other
programs give seniors the opportunity to share their knowledge and
experience with people in need.
Golden Umbrella can help low-income seniors pay their power
bills. It can provide a friendly voice on the other end of a daily
phone call. And it can offer families the reassurance they need
that, while they’re out taking care of life’s duties, their loved one
is being cared for with compassion and skill.
Call 530.226.3004 to learn more about
enrolling in the Adult Day Program or Adult Day
Health Care.
The good life
Adult Day Program gives seniors a helping hand to live their best
former patient of hers taking part in
the Adult Day Program. The patient
used to need extensive care at
home. Now the woman was feeding
herself again with special utensils
provided by the program. She
was playing bingo using an easel
adapted for her eyesight.
“I finally realize what you do here,”
the nurse told Hudelson. “You give
them back their lives.”
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