Brattleboro Area Adult Day Services

Programs: The gathering place (tgp) is a 501(c)(3) adult day program that has been providing services to seniors and adults with disabilities in windham county vermont and the surrounding areas since 1989. Tgp lives by its mission: "the gathering place provides adult day and other services to promote empowerment, independence and quality of life for elders, adults with disabilities and their caregivers. We are dedicated to fostering collaborative community partnerships". According to our mission tgp also looks to identify unmet needs in our community, working collegially with our partners to find workable, cost effective solutions to meet those needs. To that end the program continues to develop stronger working relationships and collaborations with the local hospitals and other community service providers. Tgp employs a full complement of staff, some of whom have been with the organization for more than 20 years. The center employs more than 80 full-time, part-time and occasional staff from our local community. The staff includes skilled nurses who offer health over-sight and medication management, as well as access to caregiver education, program assistants who assist with activities and direct care, experienced therapeutic activity staff and others, some of whom who have more than 25 years experience working with our target population in community-based, long-term care and acute settings. Tgp is well known in the community for our services to individuals and their families in need of supportive assistance and clinical oversight. Participants currently enrolled in the program have access to transportation, and are offered a breakfast, hot lunch and a snack on the days of attendance and a variety of activities tailored to meet their individual needs. Our skilled staff successfully manages a broad variety of participants. In fiscal year 2017 tgp served numerous families in the surrounding communities providing more than 47,000 hours of service and provided more than $17,000 in subsidized care to low income families that did not meet medicaid eligibility but were desperately in need of service. More than 50% of our current enrollment are suffering with advanced dementia and are high wander risks. 80% require direct assistance with personal care or constant cuing.