Day Support
Day Support: Day, Senior, Adult Services
Locally operated community centers provide a gathering place; a great place to share friendships and skill development. Centers offer a variety of stimulating activities ie. hobby development, holiday celebrations, and community recreation outings under trained supervised care.
Some centers have work activity programs where clients can participate in paid work for community organizations. Some have recycling projects which earn money for the clientele. Some centers help place clients as volunteers at senior centers, with meals on wheels, and at child care centers as teacher assistants.
Senior based supports include Alzheimer’s respite services through local Area Association of Aging and the Utah Alzheimer’s Association. Senior and Adult Day care programs follow a theme based curriculum that helps stimulate mind, body and soul.
These sites offer volunteer opportunities for folks who can play musical instruments, sing, dance, or are artistic in any way and wish to share their time and talents with the frail elderly. Volunteers have helped record oral histories, polish fingernails, play card or board games or just talk.
All centers have a wish list of items that include puzzles, music, videos (especially colorful travelogs), board games and craft materials that will keep minds and hands busy.
"I am an artist", said Kathy Thomas when asked to describe herself. "And there's a lot of talents I can do, like exercise dancing. I do word search and jigsaw puzzles. I do cursive writing and I can do printing. I am good at bowling." Kathy says she has lived in many places in Utah, and currently loves the little 3-bedroom house she shares with two roommates. She is happy that she can walk to the market and her bank. She also likes the Orem Center Street Day Program she attends because of the friends and all the creative activities. "I think being an artist is real good. You can make pretty pictures and hang them up everywhere." 
