(17 Oct 2024)
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Oakland, California – 24 September 2024
1. He Fengling enters Hong Fook Adult Day Health Care Center and shot pans to sign
2. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) He Fengling, Attends Hong Fook Center:
“I am always thinking about coming. I come here very proactively.”
3. Various of He reading newspaper
4. Schedule at Hong Fook in multiple languages
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Jan, Family Bridges, Inc.:
"In terms of ours, it’s culturally sensitive and culturally competent for Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese seniors. So the food is familiar, the faces are familiar, the language is familiar. And I think all of our participants are monolingual, so they don’t speak English. So imagine having to be in a nursing home or even just five days in a hospital or in the emergency room and not being able to communicate."
6. He receiving physical therapy stretches
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Jan, Family Bridges, Inc.
"So you’re getting nurses, you’re getting O.T., physical therapy, recreational therapy, social workers, mental health, speech therapy."
8. He doing physical therapy
9. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) He Fengling, Attends Hong Fook Center
"After coming here, I think this Hong Fook Center is really good. My thoughts are much more cheerful."
10. He eating breakfast
11. Various people playing mahjong
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Jan, Family Bridges, Inc.:
"One of our main concerns besides the funding was education: to educate the leadership, to educate the legislators, to educate Medicare and Medicaid that these are the…adult day centers are the most cost effective health care models for seniors."
13. People walking in front of day center bus
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Corinne Jan, Family Bridges, Inc.:
"There has to be some kind of way to promote these centers from being more accessible but sustainable."
15. Staff member walks past sign
16. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) He Fengling, Attends Hong Fook Center:
"Everybody who sees me raises their thumb to tell me how great it is that I insist on coming."
17. Various of center attendees playing bingo
18. SOUNDBITE (Cantonese) He Fengling, Attends Hong Fook Center
"I really do see this center as a priority."
19. He smiling and exercising
STORYLINE:
He Fengling wakes up at 5:30 a.m. on days she goes to Hong Fook Adult Day Health Care Center near Oakland, California’s Chinatown district. It serves people of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese backgrounds.
A day-center bus drops her off at about 8:30 a.m. She settles into her routine of a breakfast of toast and jam with a glass of milk, and reading the Sing Tao Daily, a Hong Kong newspaper. Then it’s time for physical therapy to relieve her arthritis and sciatica.
There are different pre-lunch activities each day. Today it’s table games: mahjong, tien gow, and Chinese chess, plus bingo. An automated voice says the bingo numbers in English, and a staff member follows with a translation.
“Everybody who sees me raises their thumb to tell me how great I’m doing, that I insist on coming,” said He, who is in her late 80s.
Adult day centers are the most racially diverse long-term care setting in the U.S., with many tailoring their offerings to the foods, traditions and cultures of their clientele and serving as key resource hubs to older people of color and immigrants. Day centers also serve the least amount of people of all long-term care settings, in part because of the cost and limited insurance coverage options; federal Medicare, the largest insurer of older adults, doesn’t cover them.
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