Adult day services provide safe, stimulating places for those who have physical or cognitive disabilities, and also give respite to their caregivers.
Sally White helps her husband of 46 years get dressed, fed and on the bus for the short ride from their home to Third Age Adult Day Center four mornings a week. Preparing 74-year-old Rodger White to leave the house for the day can be a chore since he’s been in declining health for more than a decade and has severe memory loss. 'It’s like having a small child,' said Sally White, 78. 'This long goodbye is hell. I’m exhausted.
Vargo, who for years worked as an administrative assistant to several Bucknell University presidents, suffered a traumatic brain injury in a fall about five years ago and now has short-term memory loss and is unable to care for herself. 'It’s very difficult,' said her husband, Joe Vargo, 81. Standing in the couple’s dining room filled with family photos and Christmas decorations he has yet to take down, Vargo said: 'VNA has helped in a lot of ways.
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