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The Mission of Adult Care of Chester County (a non-profit agency) is to provide high-quality,
cost-effective adult care and a variety of support services that improve the quality of life for
frail and/or dependent adults, respite for their caregivers and benefit to the community.
The Vision is to become the provider of choice for Adult Care among families within our community
and to be an integral part of the health care delivery system.
The Core Value in everything we do, we will act with caring, compassion and a determination to improve
the well being and quality of life for those we serve. That includes:
• Maintaining frail and dependent adults and their families as our principal emphasis.
• Providing services that will meet the needs of a wide range of individuals including those affected by early, middle, and late stage Alzheimer’s Disease and other types of dementia as well as those affected by brain injury and/or physical challenges.
• Treating every client and person with whom we interface with dignity, respect, compassion, sensitivity and love.
• Ensuring that everything we do has a direct focus on the improvement of the quality of life for our participants and their families.
• Caring for the caregiver as much as we care for our participants.
• Broadening our activities to include the education of families and those who are integral to the safety and welfare of these frail and dependent adults.
• Becoming a resource to the families of our participants.
• Care and services will be provided by the “care team” - promoting a more harmonious environment
• Demonstrating professionalism in all work.
• Ensuring that our staff is visible, participative and stimulating.
• Engaging in constant information exchange, the sharing of “best practices,” and unwavering compliance to all applicable rules, regulations and standards.
• Striving for excellence in all services, programs, activities and among each and every care team member.
• An unwillingness to accept mediocrity.
• Offering a thoroughly clean, therapeutic and secure environment that is welcoming to all who enter.
• Serving everyone regardless of gender, age (over 18), race, color, national origin, sexual orientation or religion.
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Centers in Exton & Kennett Square (serving all Chester County)
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The goal of the Board of Directors and staff of Adult Care of Chester County, Inc. is to provide the most
appropriate therapeutic activities for each participant that attends the adult day center. There are four
separate programs in the Exton Center. Each program offers the same elements of therapeutic activities but
the way those activities are implemented varies with the abilities of the participants in each group. In
addition, the level of assistance needed with personal care varies from one program to another. An example of
how activities are modified to meet the abilities of the group would be to look at how the cognitive game
Alphabet Soup is played:
• With participants who are alert and oriented, a letter is selected and a subject is selected: For example, the
letter “B” was pulled from the soup pot and the subject selected might be cities in the United States. Participants
take turns guessing a city that starts with B. A list is made of the responses. Sometimes teams will be formed to
compete for points.
• For participants who have decreased ability for easy recall of words, the letter is pulled from the pot but the
category is much broader, such as the name of any town, city, state, country or area that starts with that letter.
Again, the answers are marked on a board but since competition would be frustrating to this group, the list is merely
a reminder of what has been identified. Hints may be used to help participants succeed in naming the place or item.
• For those with great difficulty with recall or word finding, the letter is pulled from the pot with a very broad
category and very helpful hints are given to facilitate the participants’ success in this group activity.
Participants are most comfortable spending the day with others who have abilities and challenges most like their own.
In addition to the comfort factor, the success in activities depends on those in the group having like abilities and
similar interests. Some of the special interest groups are comprised of just men, like the Men’s Music Appreciation
Group and others are based on shared interests like ceramics.
Exton (Sharp Lane Center)
Kilpatrick Memorial Program is a program that offers a balance of physical activities to provide
exercise and mentally challenging activities to give participants the ability to use their minds and keep as
sharp as possible. This group is comprised mostly of men and serves many of our Veterans so topics of conversation
tend to be more about sports and other subjects most typically of interest to men.
Social Circle - is a program similar to that of the Kilpatrick Program in that it offers both physical
activities to provide exercise and mentally challenging activities to encourage participants to use their minds in
order to retain their mental abilities. This group has been comprised of all women for most of its ten-year
history. The subject matter tends to focus on women’s issues and interests.
Club is a program that utilizes physical and mental activities but with more emphasis on the physical
activities to enable participants to succeed in the games in which they are engaged. This group is comprised of
both men and women with subject matter being more balanced between the interests of men and women.
Friendship Circle is a program that utilizes physical and mental activities in a manner that meets
the very individual needs of each member of this group. Activities are modified to permit short one-on-one
interactions and rest periods for those in need of quiet/rest time.
Kennett Square (Southern Chester County Center) Serving people in the southern areas of Chester County
and western Delaware County, this program provides the same care and services offered at the Exton site. However,
this program is integrated, and participants have different levels of cognitive and physical ability. Both large
and small group activities are planned. This center provides bilingual staff for our Spanish speaking
participants.
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