Social Adult Day Services (SADS)

Social Adult Day Services (SADS) are programs that provide a variety of long-term care services to functionally impaired individuals, whether due to physical and/or cognitive impairments. Services may be delivered in congregate, community, or home settings and provided pursuant to a person-centered service plan.

The primary objectives of SADS are to:

• Reduce loneliness and social isolation
• Improve social determinants of health
• Provide respite and support to caregivers
• Assist working caregivers in balancing employment and caregiving responsibilities

Programs that receive funding from a local office for the aging and/or NYSOFA state funding are required to comply with NYSOFA regulations governing SADS.

Programs that receive funding through a Managed Long Term Care Plan (MLTC) must comply with NYS Department of Health requirements. Additional information on MLTC-funded SADS programs is available on the NYS Department of Health SADS Compliance webpage.

• Socialization: Planned activities tailored to the needs, interests, and capabilities of participants
• Monitoring and supervision: Ongoing observation of participants’ behavioral and physical status, with continuous awareness of participant whereabouts
• Personal care: Limited assistance with mobility, toileting, transfers, and eating
• Nutrition: Meals, snacks, and hydration provided in accordance with NYSOFA requirements or Child and Adult Care Food Plan (CACFP), as applicable

• Total assistance with personal care: Including continence and bathing assistance, support with self-administration of medication, simple dressings, routine skin care, and assistance with adaptive equipment
• Maintenance and enhancement of daily living skills: Support to learn or relearn self-care skills and instrumental activities of daily living
• Case assistance
• Caregiver services
• Transportation coordination/directly provided transportation

Individuals are eligible for SADS if they require assistance from another person with at least one activity of daily living, such as toileting, mobility, transferring, or eating, or if they require supervision due to cognitive and/or psychosocial impairment.

New York State Elder Law

Title 9 NYCRR §6654.20

The following organizations receive Social Adult Day Services grant funding from NYSOFA:

• Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services (Queens)
• Chautauqua Adult Day Centers (Jamestown, Dunkirk)
• Freidberg JCC (Nassau)
• Kaleida Health Foundation (Erie)
• Lenox Hill Neighborhood House (Manhattan)
• New York Memory Center (Brooklyn)
• Queens Community House (Queens)
• Resource Center for Independent Living (Oneida)
• Riverstone Senior Life Services (Manhattan)
• Putman County Office for the Aging (Putnam Valley & Mahopac)
• LifePath (Albany)
• Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center (Nassau)

In addition to the above organizations funded through the NYSOFA grant program, local offices for the aging across New York State provide funding to approximately 52 SADS.

NYSOFA’s SADS Monitoring Tool is designed to ensure that programs comply with all NYSOFA requirements and the standards set forth in Title 9 NYCRR §6654.20.  AAAs that fund SADS programs are required to use this tool as part of their annual monitoring process. SADS providers are also encouraged to use this tool for internal compliance and quality assurance purposes. The NYSOFA Monitoring Tool is available here.

For training and additional resources, including guidance on opening a SADS program, please contact the New York State Adult Day Services Association.

For training and additional resources, including guidance on opening a SADS program, please contact the New York State Adult Day Services Association.