Best Adult Day Care Center Escondido Near Me

4worldlovers:
We’re a licensed and Medi-Cal certified community-based program providing our San Diego senior adult day care community a variety of health, therapeutic, and social services to medically, socially, or psychologically eligible adults since 2002. Specializing in social, individualized and empathic care, we serve 135 participants daily—complementing the care received at home.


Our skilled Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) consists of: nursing department, medical director, social services department, physical therapist, occupation therapist, activity director, psychologist, registered dietitian, and a speech therapist. Our passionate team works to meet your individual plan of care. Our person-centered approach focuses on providing holistic care: mind, body, and spirit.

Licensed by the California Department of Health Services and certified by the Department of Aging since 2002.

“It's a place where I can come during the day to have fun, socialize and receive rehabilitation services.”

4worldlovers: Our mission is to provide affordable and accessible adult day care and support services to families affected by Alzheimer’s and other forms of memory impairment diseases. We do this by providing innovative adult day care programs, family support, case management, crisis intervention, family and community education, advocacy, information and referrals.

In keeping with our mission to help families affected by Alzheimer’s disease, our co-founder, Joy Glenner, wrote a book called, "When Your Loved One Has Dementia".

Our legacy begins with our founders, Dr. George G. Glenner and his wife Joy. Dr. Glenner, was a physician and Alzheimer’s researcher at the UCSD School of Medicine and worked tirelessly to better understand the pathology of the disease. He became world-renowned for his research and identification of the beta-amyloid protein. This protein is considered the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease and has allowed researchers to make valuable inroads.

We are proud to share that to this day, the UCSD School of Medicine continues to honor the great work of Dr. Glenner by recognizing a graduating fourth-year UC San Diego medical student who demonstrates superior clinical skills, dedication to compassionate medical care and a commitment to study, apply and advance scientific knowledge – in short, the attributes of Dr. Glenner himself. The award is called The George G. Glenner Memorial Award and consists of a certificate, $1,000 in cash and inscription of the awardee’s name on a perpetual bronze plaque in the UC San Diego School of Medicine.*

While Dr. Glenner’s discoveries and explorations helped to advance our knowledge, the concern for the families affected by Alzheimer’s provided the poignant foundation for our centers. The Glenners were very concerned with the enormous stress the disease puts on caregivers. They saw the day-to-day struggles of families desperate for help.

In fact, the organization was born out of a heartfelt response made by the Glenners after receiving a late night call from a family caregiver struggling with his wife’s dementia. The pressures of caregiving had taken an emotional toll and this family caregiver wanted to end his wife’s life as well as his own. It was this experience that moved the Glenners to establish services for those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease and their passion and determination to help these families is what defines us today.

*For more information, please visit: https://medschool.ucsd.edu/education/undergrad/student_affairs/Pages/senior-award-recipients.aspx. (NOTE: Dr. Glenner’s papers and memorabilia are open to the public and can be viewed at the UC San Diego Geisel Library. To view online, please visit: https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0389.html.)

October 24, 1982 – Dr. Glenner and Joy Glenner join President Reagan in the Oval Office as he signs the proclamation designating the week of Thanksgiving as National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Week. They became advocates for increasing national recognition of Alzheimer’s disease through a congressional bill that required 255 co-sponsors. Passage of this bill led to another bill the following year that designated the entire month of November as Alzheimer’s Awareness Month and led to a large increase in funding to the NIH for scientific research.