About the Caring Connection

What  is the Caring Connection Adult Day Health Center?

Windsor's Adult Day Health Center, The Caring Connection, was established in 1987 as a community based service designed to meet the needs of impaired adults through a structured and safe daytime program.  A team of professionally certified,  licensed staff provides daytime care to frail, elderly or disabled adults while giving respite, support and peace of mind to caregivers. 

What the Caring Connection does:

  • Provides opportunities for social interactions, friendship and fun
  • Prevents premature nursing home placement
  • Maximizes independence
  • Improves quality of life through participation in programming that challenges the mind, body and spirit
  • Enables respite time for caregivers

 

Whom the Caring Connection serves:

  • Adults of any age who value independence but may need some assistance and activities of daily living, or who are lonely and socially isolated
  • Those with mild to moderate cognitive or physical impairments.

 

What the Caring Connection program includes:

  • Door to door assisted transportation in Windsor and surrounding communities via specially-equipped vans (see Windsor Senior Transportation)
  • Recreation that is challenging, interesting, educational, and fun
  • Nutritious meals, including a hot lunch and two snacks
  • Professional medical supervision
  • Personal care, such as showering
  • Additional service for podiatry (performed on a fee for service basis).

 

When the Caring Connection is open and where it is located:

  • Hours of operation are 7:00 AM to 4:30 PM, Monday through Friday
  • Clients are picked up at their homes between 8 am and 9:30 am and return home between 7:30 AM and 4:30 PM.  Clients are not required to use Caring Connection transportation and may be transported by caregivers and friends.
  • Located at 330 Windsor Avenue in Windsor, CT in a 9,000 square foot facility designed around the needs of our clients.

 

What is the geographic area served?

Clients may come from any area if transported by caregivers. The Town of Windsor Senior Transportation provides transportation to Windsor and surrounding communities.

 

 

How is the Caring Connection funded?

The Caring Connection is a not-for-profit "Enterprise" program that is sponsored by the Town of Windsor.  The program receives no designated tax dollars for its support and is funded by user fees, grants, and donations.  Clients who qualify for the Home Care for Elders Program through the State of Connecticut may choose adult day care as part of their plan of care. Private pay individuals may qualify for partial financial assistance funding through the North Central Area Agency on Aging funded through the Older Americans Act, The Granger Foundation, and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving (Brainard and Archer Funds). Military veterans also may qualify through the Veteran's Administration. The Caring Connection functions as a service provided through the Human Services Department, and the Windsor Town Council serves as its Board of Directors.

 

What is a typical day like at the Caring Connection?

Our monthly newsletter, the Heartbeat, will be mailed to your home to keep you and your caregivers abreast of our current programs and daily meal schedule. Also refer to The Caring Connection on Facebook for updates and photos of programs.

 

  • Center opens at 7:00 AM
  • Arrival at 7:00-9:30 AM
  • Light snack with choice of coffee, juice, tea or hot chocolate with friendly conversation in our Caring Connection Cafe
  • 10:00 AM Morning Group Meeting-discussion of our days events and sign up for out trips
  • Recreation Programming 10:30-11:30 (varieties of exercise, walking group, brain games, sing alongs, baking, puzzles, cards, crocheting, bell choir)
  • 11:30 a full hot lunch is served
  • 12:30 PM-2:15 PM Recreation programs
  • Afternoon snack at 2:15 PM
  • Afternoon departure begins at 2:45 PM for loading of the busses.  Caregivers can pick up client up to 4:30 PM, our closing time.

 

The program is open Monday through Friday and many clients attend 5 days, but combinations of days may also be chosen as part of the regular schedule.

 

What about holidays? 

The Caring Connection is closed on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and the day after, and Christmas Day. We are open all other holidays including Martin Luther King Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Columbus Day, and Veterans Day.  Please read the monthly newsletter to keep abreast of all the openings, early releases, and closings.

 

 

How can I get more information and sign up?

For more information call the Caring Connection at 860-547-0251.  Make plans with the Staff for a tour of the center, and review the admission process.  Because the Caring Connection is a Medical Model Adult Day Center there is an admission process with medical releases that have to be filled out and returned prior to admission.  The staff will be very helpful in assisting with the process.

 

The Caring Connection is a member of the Connecticut Association of Adult Day Centers and the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging. The program is certified as a Medical Model Adult Day Center through the Connecticut Association of Adult Day Centers and the State of Connecticut Department of Social Services.