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.
Mitch Vosburg has been attending TURN day programs since 1986. When he had to go into a care center in 2009, he missed his friends at the day program that he had treasured for so many years. So, later that year, he was able to come back to the Woods Cross day program part-time.
Mitch loves holding onto hair scrunches and a deck of cards that he plays with. He enjoys Special Olympic bowling and track and field, but he cannot participate in the actual track and field games because of the heat. However, he enjoys practicing when there is cooler weather. Mitch loves being with his friends at the day program, participating in the activities, and going out in the community. He does not speak but he communicates his joy through a big smile on his face!
