LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deep budget cuts mean 37,000 elderly and disabled adults are slated to lose adult day care services in California unless legislators move to save the program.
Five of the state's 309 adult day health care centers have already closed and families are rushing to find community-based medical care and therapy in anticipation of more closures around the state, according to Lydia Missaelides, executive director of the trade group California Association for Adult Day Services.
One of the closed centers, Sierra LifeNet Adult Day Health Center in Sonora, shuttered its facility on April 29, and families of the 59 patients it served have been rushing to find care in the rural part of California.
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