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The first adult day care centers opened in England during the 1940s and 1950s. Established by psychiatric hospitals, these centers were designed to reduce the frequency of hospital admissions. The first adult day care centers in the United States appeared during the early 1970s.
1 The 2010 MetLife National Study of Adult Day Centers confirmed over 4,600 centers operating in the United States providing care for 150,000 care recipients each day. 2  Â¹ It is estimated that there are more than 5,000 currently operating.