California faces ‘catastrophic’ cuts to adult care
June 15th, 2009From the Orange County Register:
State budget woes threaten to drastically cut adult day programs for Californians with mental and physical disabilities such as Alzheimer’s disease, intellectual disabilities, and severe arthritis.
Praim Singh, executive director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Southern California (RIO), said legislators will either eliminate adult day-care funding completely; reduce the programs from five days a week to three; or eliminate services for people being served less than five days a week.
“No matter what they do, it’ll be a major impact,” he said. “It would be catastrophic, no question about it.”
Singh said the cuts will end up costing the state more in the long run if they force people into institutions.
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