Program areas at ONEgeneration
Established in 1978 to serve the needs of the elderly, the center expanded in 1991 to include a second site to establish an adult day care center and child care center, bridging these programs with the unique concept of intergenerational programs which unite young and old in daily activities. The adult day care center offers both the social model as well as the medical model known as "community based adult services (cbas)". It is a licensed accredited daycare facility providing 7am to 6pm care for adults suffering from dementia, alzheimer's, parkinson's, stroke recovery, and other debilitating conditions. The adult daycare program serves under normal circumstances (pre-covid) over 150 families annually including veterans, has extended services on two saturdays per month, and supports over 165 participant families and their caregivers with support, training and education sessions, and over 4,120 wellness and social calls a year.
Onegeneration provides nutritional consulting, care management, meals, and transportation to homebound seniors and other vulnerable community members, including annual support with over 6,800 transportation rides to medical and other critical appointments, active case management to nearly 500 clients, 5,500 + careline calls to homebound members, over 4,100 for harold's help desk social services assistance, and 110,000 annual meals to homebound and congregate sites respectively for food insecure individuals.
Onegeneration is the first dually accredited daycare facility. Co-located on the j.o.y. (joining older and younger) campus. Onegeneration childcare is highly naeyc accredited, operating an exceptional and vital daycare facility, serving over 142 families and their children, including 36 weekly foreign language as well as unique 20 monthly intergenerational activities with their fellow senior "neighbors" from the adjoining adult day care program.
Onegeneration provides broad senior care management services, including (a) multi-year federal alzheimers and dementia care and training/education program supporting over 300 people living with dementia and caregivers and training and education to over 1,500 professionals; (b) a multi-year self-measured blood pressure hypertension management campaign addressing cardivascular diseases, improving blood pressure levels for over 224 patients; (c) kinship family programs, grandparents as parents with over 190 support groups, 79 court navigations, and 96 virtual homework tutoring provided; (d) public health programs responding to pandemic with over 1,100 seniors vaccinated and over 532 cal-fresh applications completed, and (e) 32 low income seniors housed in auxiliary dwelling units (adu's).
Senior services.
Farmers market-provides active seniors with an important volunteer "job" that contributes to their quality of life while at the same time providing affordable healthy produce to the entire community.