Excerpt: Adult Family Homes can use Cascade Park Adult Day Health Club as a practical partner for Medicaid residents who need more movement, routine, socialization, and therapeutic daytime support while giving caregivers predictable relief.
Adult Family Homes Do Not Have to Do It All Alone
Adult Family Home owners and caregivers carry an enormous responsibility. You are providing meals, personal care, medication support, supervision, family communication, documentation, cleaning, laundry, and emotional support every day.
For many residents, excellent care inside the home is still not enough to meet every social, cognitive, physical, and emotional need. Some residents need a structured reason to get up, get dressed, leave the house, move their body, use their mind, and connect with people outside the home.
That is where Cascade Park Adult Day Health Club can become a valuable partner.
What Is Cascade Park Adult Day Health Club?
Cascade Park Adult Day Health Club is a therapeutic daytime program in Tacoma for adults who benefit from structured activity, supervision, health monitoring, meals, movement, cognitive stimulation, and social connection.
We use the word Club intentionally. This is not babysitting, and it is not simply a place to sit. It is a vibrant daytime program designed to help participants stay active, connected, and engaged in life.
Participants may attend one to five days per week, depending on their needs, care plan, funding authorization, and transportation access.
Who Is a Good Fit?
Adult Family Homes should consider referring a Medicaid resident when the resident is becoming isolated, inactive, withdrawn, bored, restless, or overly dependent on television or sleep during the day.
- Needs more daytime routine, structure, and purposeful activity
- Would benefit from exercise, walking, balance, or mobility support
- Needs cognitive stimulation, conversation, games, music, or creative activity
- Shows signs of loneliness, depression, boredom, or under-stimulation
- Has increased behaviors that may be connected to lack of engagement
- Could benefit from socialization outside the Adult Family Home
- Is approaching a DSHS annual or significant-change review where Adult Day Health may be appropriate to discuss
Why It Helps the Adult Family Home
When a resident attends Adult Day Health, the Adult Family Home gains predictable daytime relief while the resident is safely engaged in a structured therapeutic setting.
That time can help AFH staff catch up on charting, cleaning, laundry, meal preparation, care coordination, family communication, and the daily work required to keep a home running well. For many homes, Adult Day Health is both a resident wellness tool and an operational support.
Key message for AFHs
Adult Day Health does not replace the care you provide. It complements your care by giving residents a fuller day and caregivers a predictable window of support.
Why It Helps Residents
Many residents do not decline only because of medical needs. They decline because their world becomes too small. They stop going out. They stop moving. They stop talking as much. They lose routine, confidence, and purpose.
Cascade Park Adult Day Health Club helps interrupt that pattern. Participants receive social connection, therapeutic activities, movement, meals, health monitoring, and opportunities to participate in a community outside the home.
A better day at the Club can mean a better evening back at the Adult Family Home.
Medicaid, Transportation, and Referral Support
For Medicaid residents, Adult Day Health may be authorized through DSHS. Cascade Park Adult Day Health can help Adult Family Homes understand what information is needed and support the referral process.
For participants within the Pierce Transit ADA service area, transportation support may be available. Cascade helps coordinate the transportation process so Adult Family Homes are not left managing every detail alone.
To start a Medicaid referral, helpful information includes the DSHS case manager name, phone, and email; primary care provider phone and fax; client face sheet; POA or guardian contact if applicable; and the resident’s current goals or concerns.
Bottom Line
Cascade Park Adult Day Health Club helps Adult Family Homes keep Medicaid residents active, social, and stable while giving caregivers predictable daytime relief. It is a practical, community-based support that can improve quality of life for residents and strengthen the daily rhythm of the home
Cascade Park Adult Day Health Club | 246 St Helens Ave, Tacoma, WA 98402 | www.CascadeCares.com/AdultDay Call/Text Dani Verrue: 253-433-4475 | AdultDay@cascadecares.com | www.CascadeCares.com/AdultDay
