Correlates of service utilization among adult day care clients

This study of adult day care clients (N = 48) in three suburban programs reports on the relationship between client impairments, the age of primary caregivers and the services used by these clients. The results support the low use of services among the multi-impaired aged that has been previously reported. This is true even for the multi-impaired who have been attending adult day care programs for over seventeen months. Providers of formal aging services may benefit from these data when coordinating service plans for the multi-impaired elder who has an intact informal social support system and has not had a life history of mental illness.