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Adult Daily Living Center Celebrates 10 Years!
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Congratulations to the Adult Daily Living Center (ADLC) in Elizabethtown for celebrating 10 years of service! Staff, ADLC participants and families attended an anniversary party at the center on Sept. 23.
Did You Know?
- The ADLC opened on Aug. 14, 1995, and was located in the Temple Dining Room.
- Vickie Brown, LPN, now Program Director, was one of the first employees.
- During the first year of service, only one to two clients attended per day.
- By the first anniversary, the ADLC had moved to the newly renovated ground floor of the Benjamin Franklin Building in the Masonic Health Care Center and served 10-11 clients per day. A therapeutic recreation specialist and a certified nursing assistant were also hired.
- Today, the ADLC serves 45 clients, with 27-33 attending each day.
- In its 10 years of service, the ADLC has served a total of 227 clients.
- The average length of stay for any one client is two years.
- The longest any one client has attended the ADLC is 9 ½ years. The longest any of our current clients has attended the ADLC is 8 years.
- The oldest client is 94 years old, while the youngest is 21.
- The ADLC is dually licensed by the PA Department of Public Welfare and the PA Department of Aging.
- The ADLC serves clients with diagnoses ranging from Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia, Parkinson's disease, stroke, brain injury, mental retardation and other neurological and physical conditions.
For more information about the Adult Daily Living Center in Elizabethtown, call (717) 361-5353.
ADLC client Bobby Berstler enjoys listening to entertainer Judy Mastros on the keyboard.
Elizabethtown resident Bruce Wise and his wife, Ann, look at the ADLC scrapbook. Bro. Wise is a past ADLC client.
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