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Calif cuts would close senior day care centers

Deep budget cuts mean 37,000 elderly and disabled adults are slated to lose adult day care services in California unless legislators move to save the program.

By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer | Updated on May 20, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Deep budget cuts mean 37,000 elderly and disabled adults are slated to lose adult day care services in California unless legislators move to save the program.

Five of the state’s 309 adult day health care centers have already closed and families are rushing to find community-based medical care and therapy in anticipation of more closures around the state, according to Lydia Missaelides, executive director of the trade group California Association for Adult Day Services.

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