Social Adult Day Services (SADS)

Social Adult Day Services are structured, comprehensive programs that provide functionally impaired adults (those who need help with everyday tasks) with an array of services in a protective setting for any part of the day, but for less than a 24-hour period. Each participant receives services in accordance with an individualized service plan that is based on an assessment of the individual.

Programs that receive funding from a local office for the aging and/or NYSOFA state funding are required to follow the NYSOFA regulations for social adult day care. There is no license, registration or certification required by New York State to operate a social adult day program.

• Socialization: planned activities based on the needs and capabilities of the participants
   
• Monitoring and supervision: observing for behavioral and physical conditions and keeping track of whereabouts of participants at all times
   
• Personal care: some assistance with mobility, toileting, transfers, and eating
   
• Nutrition: meals, snacks, and hydration, as appropriate and in accordance with NYSOFA or Child and Adult Care Food Plan (CACFP) requirements

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

A person who needs the assistance of another person in at least one of the following activities of daily living: toileting, mobility, transferring, or eating; or who needs supervision due to cognitive and/or psycho-social impairment.

New York State Elder Law

The following organizations receive a Social Adult Day Services grant 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 & Cohoes)
• Sid Jacobson Jewish Community Center (Nassau)

In addition to the above organizations funded through the NYSOFA grant, local offices for the aging across New York State provide funding to approximately 55 social adult day programs.

This Self-Monitoring Tool Guide is designed to provide step-by-step instructions on conducting program monitoring of social adult day services programs (SADS). The Social Adult Day Services Self-Monitoring Tool (referred to as the self-monitoring tool) and accompanying worksheets are designed to determine whether SADS are in compliance with the standards set forth in New York State Office for the Aging Social Adult Day Care regulations.

Guide - SADS Self-Monitoring

• Table of Contents
• SADS Regulations
• Policy and Procedure for SADS Monitoring
• SADS Program Personal Care Worksheet
• SADS Training and Health Status Worksheet
• SADS HCBS Final Rule Compliant PCSP Template (Replaces Attachment H 12/14/24)
• Participants File Review Form
• Compass Form 2023
• Self-Monitoring Tool 
• Sample Activity Calendars
• SADS Nutrition Requirements
• Adequate Staffing in SADS
• Equal Access

SADS Monitoring Requirements:

• See 15-PI-12 Social Adult Day Services Monitoring Requirements
• See 24-TAM-01 Social Adult Day Services (SADS) Monitoring

SADS Home and Community Based Service Information & Service Plan:

• See Social Adult Day Care (SADC) Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Compliance (New York State Department of Health)
• See Person Centered Service Plan (PCSP) Template for SADC/SADS Usage (NYSOFA and the New York State Department of Health)

For training and additional resources including information on how to open a social adult day program, please contact the New York State Adult Day Services Association.