About Us

Second Home is a multi-cultural Adult Day Health Care (ADHC) center located in Watertown, MA. Our goal is to provide compassionate, culturally-sensitive care and services to help our members remain healthy, independent, and safe in the community. Our services will ensure and improve their quality-of-life while reducing their need for frequent hospitalizations and long-term placement. Because we are a multi-cultural center, we have employees who are able to speak Russian, Armenian, and Farsi with participants.

We are committed to excellence and superior service delivery. Our experienced team has a proven track record of delivering personalized, high-quality healthcare and social services to our participants. Our interdisciplinary team addresses not only our members' medical needs, they also design personalized therapeutic activities to meet their specific needs and interests. In addition, our team focuses on improving our members' strength, improve memory and cognition, and most importantly their independence.

We accept MassHealth Standard, United Health Care SCO, Fallon Health SCO, Tufts SCO, Senior Whole Health SCO, and other approved SCO's.

We provide complimentary transportation to and from the residence. We provide nutritious meals: breakfast, snack, and hot lunch. All meals are created by the registered dietitian and approved by the Department of Education. We have trained Registered Nurses on staff at all times providing a safe/secure environment for our members. Our Nurses assess, monitor all vitals, assist, supervise, and educate with all ADL's.

We offer recreational and therapeutic activities are tailored to your individual needs and designed to help improve and maintain your level of independence and wellness. We offer activities that are cognitively stimulating, help enhance your memory promote your physical fitness, and create opportunities for your unique self-expression.

We provide case management, advocacy to help you obtain services from other community agencies, and interpreter services when you receive mail or other correspondence from health care and government agencies. Our social workers coordinate with our nursing staff, therapeutic activities staff, and alternative therapists to help you attain or maintain your best possible physical, behavioral, and psychosocial well-being.

We provide services in a home-like environment, such as:

• Activities
• Billiards
• Birthday celebrations
• Concerts
• Dancing
• English classes
• Memory games
• Ping-pong
• Therapeutic exercise
• Walking exercise
• YMCA field trips

…along with continued assistance with all social medical and social needs.

We strive to adhere to our nine (9) core business principles:

1. The interests of our members always comes first
2. Our assets are our people and reputation
3. We take great pride in the professional quality of our work
4. We stress creativity and imagination in everything we do
5. We make an extraordinary effort to identify and recruit the best person for every job
6. We offer our people the opportunity to move ahead more rapidly than is possible at most other places
7. We stress teamwork in everything we do
8. We consider our size to be an asset that we try hard to preserve
9. Integrity and honesty are at the heart of our business

Second Home ADHC does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations.