ONEgeneration Adult Day Health Care

Pulling up to ONEgeneration Adult Day Health Care, we noticed a pretty garden with lawn furniture and a multicolored mural of seniors on one side of the building. We found the programming to be equally unique and colorful. ONEgeneration offers adult day health care and adult day care. In an adjoining building, child day care is also offered, for children from six weeks to six years old. An intergenerational program, Joining Older and Younger (JOY), brings the groups together several times a day for supervised, structured activities, including exercise, meal preparation, storytelling, arts and crafts, trivia games and live entertainment. Seniors with Parkinson’s, stroke history and memory impairment thrive in this lively environment. Occupational, physical and speech therapies are available to adult day health care participants. The reception area is warm and welcoming. Potted plants pepper the wood floor and there’s also a bookcase stocked with information about various senior services. Cheerful peach walls have mauve borders along the top. A “memory wall,” featuring photographs of participants’ from their younger days, runs through the entire facility. Exercise sessions and parties are generally held in the large activity room. With round wooden tables pushed against the blue walls, there’s plenty of space to move and socialize. To supplement the main activity, there’s often a different one held concurrently in the dining room. The wood floors in this room blend nicely with the rest of the décor, and there is also a distinctive aquarium. The carpeted respite room contains wingback and reclining chairs. Exercise equipment, including a treadmill, free weights and a stationary bike, are in the physical therapy room. One area that piqued our interest was the observation room—there’s actually a double-sided mirror so families can inconspicuously watch their loved ones in action! Our main observation, standing in the thick of things: staff members and participants truly seem to enjoy each other’s company.