COA - Council On Accreditation

Adult Day Services provide daytime, community-based services for adults who are in need of supervised support, stimulation, and care and who return home in the evening. Services are designed to maintain or improve social, psychological, and physical functioning. Health, social, educational, and/or supportive services are offered to individuals who need some supervision and assistance but are not in need of intensive medical monitoring, rehabilitative services, more than minimal assistance with activities of daily living, or overnight care.

Note: Please see Self-Paced_Training: Adult Day Services (AD) in the Tools Index for additional assistance with this standard.

Research Note: The preponderance of research on Adult Day Services focuses on medical model services and on Adult Day Services as a form of respite care for caregivers. While there is little research specific to social or mixed model Adult Day Services, one study of adult day programs in New Jersey concluded that there are few differences between social and medical model adult day programs with respect to caregiver and care recipient outcomes.

PA-AD-DDS Supplement.pdf


	PURPOSE: Individuals who participate regularly in Adult Day Services achieve and maintain an optimal level of well-being, functioning and health, and remain in their preferred community residence.

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DDS Supplement Replacement.pdf
NA Request.doc
PA_AD Template.doc
PA-AD Reference List.pdf


	SERVICE One or more organization-operated programs or activities that have a common general objective and deploy the organization's material and human resources in a planned and systematic manner. An organization that publicly promotes or identifies itself in writing as offering a service, is licensed to deliver a service, assigns personnel and/or space to a service, or allocates financial resources to a service is considered to offer that service.


	COMMUNITY A specific group of people living in the same locality and who may share a common culture, values, and norms. Communities can also be defined by race, religion, ethnicity, age, occupation, political status, tribal affiliation, interest in particular problems or outcomes, or other common bonds. The term "community" encompasses worksites, schools, tribes, residential neighborhoods, business districts, recreational areas, and health and human service sites.


	SUPERVISION Assumption of responsibility for directly overseeing and evaluating the work or work products of personnel within an organization. Also includes inspecting the act or process of accomplishing a function or activity.


	MONITORING An evaluation involving a periodic review of consumer services, organizational activities, or conduct. Specifically, monitoring is an activity of case coordination, whereas more broadly, monitoring is an evaluation technique used in overall quality assurance.


	RESEARCH For purposes of COA accreditation, all forms of internal or external research involving persons served except internal program evaluation and outcomes research, or educational projects performed by students and interns that are part of their professional training.


	CAREGIVER The provider of physical, emotional, and social needs to another person, often dependent and unable to provide for his or her own needs. Caregiver is the generic term used for the direct service providers in Community Care and Support Services (CCS).


	PROGRAM A system of services offered by an organization. For example, an organization providing a mental health service may offer several mental health programs to different populations, e.g., a mental health program for adolescent teens. The word "program" can be used interchangeably with the word "service" or to describe specific programs.