CASE SCENARIO: You are a vivacious “50-something” with a wonderful, supportive spouse and three lovely children, ages 21, 19 and 16. Life is good! Then one day you get a phone call from the Cherry Hill police - they’ve found your 86- year-old mother wandering the streets in the middle of the night with nothing on but her housecoat.

You decide to have mom live with you and your family here at the shore. She forgets to shower, and is having problems managing her diabetes. Mom doesn’t remember to take her medications and hasn’t balanced her checkbook in months. What do you do? Where do you start?

ADHS) can help you! Adult Medical Day Care – at Generations, 40 E. New York Ave., in Somers Point – offers nursing, social work and recreation. A n RN is always available to administer medications, help in the bathroom with personal care or offer diabetes education.

The social worker at ADHS can help qualify Mom for funding and programs to pay for medications, homemaker help and diabetic supplies. The social worker can also offer valuable resources for the caregivers – like monthly support group meetings and family mediation. The activates portion of the ADHS program will provide transportation to trips and outings, as well as in-house activities like art, music and pet therapies. Many ADHS programs also offer Registered Dietician services, therapies such as physical, occupational and speech as well as transportation to and from the program and area doctors visits. For more information call 653-9700. - Adv