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Show CareWest opens special unit for daytime care of adults ric nursing in Utah and Wyoming. She is an LPN and because she is licensed she can give any medications medica-tions necessary during the day. Murff feels that it is also very important that clients get to make choices. For example, each one gets a turn picking out the movies at the video store. They also shop for items for lunch. At the same time no one has to take part in any activity they are not interested in. Every morning the group does exercises together for good health and to build strength and flexibility. flexi-bility. The center also stresses personal hygiene training for clients. Hair and nail care is taught along with lessons on personal appearance in cluding matching colors and wardrobe war-drobe selection for appropriate clothes for different occasions. "Clients at Mapleridge have a lot of fun," Murff says. There's a light and flexible atmosphere. During the Christmas season the group will decorate their own tree and make Decorations for the center cen-ter and to take home. Murff points out that coming toi the center on a daycare basis makes it easier to make the transi-: tion to a full time nursing home should that be a necessity later.1 "Should that be necessary, it's no; longer a threatening situation, because be-cause they already know everyone! working at Care West," she says. By CHERIE HUBER CareWest in Bountiful has opened a special adult day care center to care for adults who need supervision during the day. Clients enjoy the friendly surroundings and their families can go to work, shopping or other activities knowing know-ing their loved ones are safe and enjoying the day also. Mapleridge Adult Day Care Center Cen-ter at CareWest offers adult day care from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday for $18 a day. The staff is also willing to work out schedules for those who need to arrive earlier or leave later. Care for the day also includes lunch and two snacks. Care is available on a full time or drop-in basis, a choice which Mapleridge believes is a real service during the holidays when many people need time for shopping or attending special spe-cial functions. Mapleridge provides very pleasant facilities that seem like a social club. Clients can relax in front of the television, visit with their friends or take part in the center's cen-ter's many activities. When they are ready to nap, they can rest. Some days everyone rides in a van on a field trip. They have visited museums, parks, the zoo, malls and even Symphony Hall. Activities are planned every day at Mapleridge. There are always crafts, sing-a-longs, Relief Society, Socie-ty, Bingo and movies. Once a week the clients also get the opportunity to cook lunch. The philosophy at Mapleridge has been to teach skills that are necessary to be independent. indepen-dent. "Here people get a chance to live for themselves and develop independent in-dependent skills. The staff also works with the family and lets them know what new skills the client is developing," says Murff Hargett, director of Mapleridge. She points out that everyone needs the opportunity oppor-tunity to develop all their skills but sometimes in the home families fall into the pattern of waiting on family fami-ly members that they perceive as " less capable rather than letting them learn how to do things. Murff Hargett, director of Mapleridge Ma-pleridge Adult Day Care has had more than seven years of psychiat- ' PHOTO BY CHERIE HUBER 1 - Ethel Purcell was pleased with the pictures she did at Mapler- "i: idge, so she gave one to her friend Lollie Green, director of development for CareWest. Lollie will display the picture in !t her office. |