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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 Funding for adult day services comes from fees for service and third party payers, as well as public and philanthropic sources. 2  The average capacity of adult day centers is 40. 3  Â². 4  The average adult day center care recipient to staff ratio is 6:1.