Georgias Mobile Day Care

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Georgias Mobile Day Care

• Cliff Burt, MPA, Caregiver Specialist
• Georgia Division of Aging Services
• Two Peachtree Street NW
• Suite 9.398 Atlanta, Georgia 30303-3176
• Phone [phone]
• Email gcburt_at_dhr.state.ga.us

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Georgias Mobile Day Care

• Enables communities to have their own day care
  program several days a week
• Staff and supplies are mobile, not the facility
• Shared staff travel between locations

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Mobile Day Care in Georgia

• Georgia has three mobile day care programs
• Each program has two sites
• Most sites are open 2 days per week
• Staff drive between 20-53 miles one way to sites

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Mobile Day CareReflections Geriatric Services
Program

• Two sites, open 2-3 days/week
• Open 5 hours/day
• 7 enrolled/site
• ADA is 6, 5
• 585 hours/month
• Staff travel 20-25 miles one way

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Mobile Day CareAthens Community Council on Aging

• Three sites, open 1-2 days/week
• Open 5 hours/day
• 18 enrolled in 3 sites
• ADA 4,4,6
• Staff travel 33, 42, and 53 miles one way

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Mobile Day Care Staffing

• Varies from program to program
• Part-time and Full-time Staff
• Positions Include
• Day Center Director
• Respite Aide (often a Nursing Assistant)
• Case Manager
• Community Development Coordinator

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Mobile Day CareStaffing-Comm. Dev. Coordinator

• Should be hired locally
• Preferably someone who is well-known in community
• Develops a coalition of community professionals
  and caregivers

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Georgias Mobile Day Care

• Resources to get Started
• In-kind facility and volunteers from senior
  center
• Purchases transportation and meals from senior
  center

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Georgias Mobile Day CareFees

• Athens program-
• --Some Private Pay
• --Most pay 5/day
• Augusta program-
• --5/ half day
• --10 full day
• Griffin program
• --10 day

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Georgias Mobile Day Care

• Average length of stay
• Athens nine months
• Griffin 15 months
• Reason for leaving program is going into a
  nursing home, or death.

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Georgias Mobile Day Care

• Similarities
• Most successful programs work with senior centers
  on joint programming, in-kind space, and purchase
  transportation.

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Georgias Mobile Day Care

• Program Differences
• Speciality support groups (caregiver, Parkinsons
  Disease, and Alzheimers)
• Director a Recreational Therapist, not an RN

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Mobile Day CareProblems that may be Encountered

• Mistrust of big city folks
• Rural Mentality--families feel they must take
  care of their own
  
• Local Prejudices

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Mobile Day CareBenefits

• Enables unserved areas to have respite services
• One sites census may help support the other
  site
• Staff costs spread between two sites.
• Flexibility with PT FT positions helps retain
  qualified staff
• Replicable in urban or rural setting