EADS’ mission is to help adults with disabilities improve their quality of life by means of two primary strategies:

1.  Increasing their engagement with their families, their communities and the world by:

• Identifying and exploiting interests, skills, and abilities that present opportunities for engagement
• Maintaining or increasing strength, balance and range of motion
• Minimizing the physical and emotional impacts of illnesses or injuries
• Mitigating or extinguishing isolating behaviors
• Helping them remain in their homes

EADS provides a suite of services is support of this strategy that are designed to leverage each person’s unique physical and psycho-social assets.  These services include:

• Interdisciplinary care management teams
• Individualized medical and psycho-social asset assessments
• Care plans with specific, measurable goals
• Occupational and functional therapies under OT oversight
• Skilled nursing services by RNs and LPNs
• Social and recreational therapies
• Evidence-based fitness training
• Nutritional support
• Family caregiver training and support

2.  Maximizing the resources and services available to them by:

• Working with community leaders, elected officials, policy makers and the general public so they understand how public policy decisions might impact people with disabilities
• Raising funds to support services to people with disabilities
• Providing family caregivers with support services
• Continuously evaluating our efforts and results to optimize the return on all resources entrusted to us
• Community outreach and advocacy on behalf of persons with disabilities