It's no secret, most of us would like to stay in our own home as we age. Yet, sometimes our loved ones just need a little extra help to remain comfortable at home. That's where Always Best Care can help....we are dedicated to exceeding expectations....always.
They say that your golden years are the best years of your life. For most older Americans, that's how it should be - a time to relax, reflect, and live life in a familiar place. After all, senior citizens in the U.S. have worked tirelessly to build a better economy, serve their communities, and raise families.
However, as seniors grow older, completing daily tasks like showering and enjoying activities such as visiting The Round Rock in Round Rock, TX gets harder without someone by their side. Unfortunately, many older Americans aren't able to rely on their adult children for help. The reality in today's world is that family members do not have the skills or time to dedicate to caring for their parents. That's where Always Best Care Senior Services comes in.
Our in-home care services are for people who prefer to stay at home as they grow older but need ongoing care that family or friends cannot provide. More and more older adults prefer to live far away from long-term, institutionalized facilities and closer to the place where they feel most comfortable - their home. Home care in Round Rock, TX is a safe, effective way to give your loved ones the care they need when they need it the most.
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Service AreasSince 1996, Always Best Care has provided non-medical in-home care for seniors to help them maintain a healthy lifestyle as they get older. We are proud to have helped more than 25,000 seniors maintain higher levels of dignity and respect. We focus on providing seniors with the highest level of in-home care available so that they may live happily and independently.
Unlike some senior care companies, we genuinely want to be included in our clients' lives. We believe that personalized care is always the better option over a "one size fits all" approach. To make sure our senior clients receive the best care possible, we pair them with compassionate caregivers who understand their unique needs. That way, they may provide care accordingly without compromising their wellbeing.
The Always Best Care difference lies in life's little moments - where compassionate care and trustworthy experience come together to help seniors live a fruitful, healthy life. Whether you are an aging adult that can't quite keep up with life's daily tasks or the child of a senior who needs regular in-home services, Always Best Care is here to help.
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Home is where the heart is. While that saying can sound a tad cliche, it is especially true for many seniors living in America. When given a choice, older adults most often prefer to grow older at home. An AARP study found that three out of four adults over the age of 50 want to stay in their homes and communities as they age.
When you begin to think about why, it makes sense. Home offers a sense of security, comfort, and familiarity.
The truth is, as we age, we begin to rely on others for help. When a family is too busy or lives too far away to fulfill this role, in-home senior care is often the best solution. Home care services allow seniors to enjoy personal independence while also receiving trustworthy assistance from a trained caregiver.
At Always Best Care, we offer a comprehensive range of home care services to help seniors stay healthy while they get the help they need to remain independent. As your senior loved one gets older, giving them the gift of senior care is one of the best ways to show your love, even if you live far away.
To give our senior clients the best care possible, we offer a full spectrum of in-home care services:
If your senior loved one has specific care needs, our personal care services are a great choice to consider. Personal care includes the standard caregiving duties associated with companion care and includes help with tasks such as dressing and grooming. Personal care can also help individuals with chronic conditions like diabetes.
Common personal care services include assistance with:
Sometimes, seniors need helpful reminders to maintain a high quality of life at home. If you or your senior has trouble with everyday tasks like cooking, our home helper services will be very beneficial.
Common home helper care services include assistance with:
Using this kind of care is a fantastic way to make life easier for you or your senior loved one. At Always Best Care, our talented caregivers often fill the role of a companion for seniors. That way, older adults can enjoy their favorite local activities, such as visiting Play for All Abilities Park in Round Rock, TX with friends while also receiving the care they need daily or weekly.
Common companionship services include:
According to AARP, more than 53 million adults living in the U.S. provide care to someone over 50 years old. Unfortunately, these caregivers experience stress, exhaustion, and even depression. Our respite care services help family caregivers address urgent obligations, spend time with their children, and enjoy nearby activities. Perhaps more importantly, respite care gives family members time to recharge and regroup. Taking personal time to de-stress reduces the risk of caregiver burnout. So, if you've always wanted to eat at the local Steiner Ranch Steakhouse or visit Downtown Round Rock, don't feel bad. Doing so is great for both you and your loved one.
At the end of the day, our goal is to become a valuable part of your senior's daily routine. That way, we may help give them the highest quality of life possible. We know that staying at home is important for your loved one, and we are here to help make sure that is possible.
If you have been on the fence about non-medical home care, there has never been a better time than now to give your senior the care, assistance, and companionship they deserve.
Always Best Care in-home services are for older adults who prefer to stay at home but need ongoing care that friends and family cannot provide. In-home care is a safe, effective way for seniors to age gracefully in a familiar place and live independent, non-institutionalized lives. The benefits of non-medical home care are numerous. Here are just a few reasons to consider senior care services from Always Best Care:
According to AARP, 9 out of 10 seniors prefer to age in place within the comfort of their own home. With in-home care, seniors have a way to stay at home, receive the care they need, and maintain a sense of independence, improving overall wellness.
If you or a member of your family have assumed the role of caregiver for your senior loved one, you know how stressful the job can be. Between caregiver burnout and constant worry, being a family caregiver is hard. In-home care relieves your burden and gives you peace of mind knowing that your older family member is in expert hands.
Unlike nursing homes, where the staff and residents rotate frequently, seniors can foster new friendships and build bonds with their caregiver. Seniors who socialize on a regular basis are often happier, which fosters positivity and leads to increased wellbeing.
No two seniors need the same kind of in-home care assistance. That is why each of our Care Plans is tailored to meet our client's individual needs. We offer plans that cover everything from light housekeeping to more involved duties like transportation to doctor's appointments. Our Care Coordinators will work closely with you to develop a personalized plan to ensure your senior's needs are exceeded.
Always Best Care offers a full array of care options for patients at all levels of health. With our trusted elderly care services, your loved one will receive the level of care necessary for them to enjoy the highest possible quality of life.
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While it's true that some seniors have complicated medical needs that prevent them from staying at home, aging in place is often the best arrangement for seniors and their families. With a trusted caregiver, seniors have the opportunity to live with a sense of dignity and do so as they see fit - something that is unavailable to many older people today.
In-home care makes it possible for millions of seniors to age in place every year. Rather than moving to a strange nursing home, seniors have the chance to stay at home where they feel the happiest and most comfortable.
How much does a senior's home truly mean to them?
A study published by the American Society on Aging found that more than half of seniors say their home's emotional value means more than how much their home is worth in monetary value. It stands to reason, then, that a senior's home is where they want to grow old.
With the help of elderly care in Round Rock, TX, seniors don't have to age in a sterilized care facility. Instead, they can age gracefully in the place they want to be most: their home. In contrast, seniors who move to a long-term care facility must adapt to new environments, new people, and new systems that the facility implements. At this stage in life, this kind of drastic change can be more harmful than helpful.
Institutional care facilities like nursing homes often put large groups of people together to live in one location. On any given day, dozens of staff members and caregivers run in and out of these facilities. Being around so many new people in a relatively small living environment can be dangerous for a seniors' health and wellbeing. When you consider that thousands of seniors passed away in nursing homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, opting for in-home care is often a safer, healthier choice for seniors.
Aging in place has been shown to improve seniors' quality of life, which helps boost physical health and also helps insulate them from viral and bacterial risks found in elderly living facilities.
For many seniors, the ability to live independently with assistance from a caregiver is a priceless option. With in-home care, seniors experience a higher level of independence and freedom - much more so than in other settings like a nursing home. When a senior has the chance to age in place, they get to live life on their own terms, inside the house that they helped make into a home. More independence means more control over their personal lives, too, which leads to increased levels of fulfillment, happiness, and personal gratification. Over time, these positive feelings can manifest into a healthier, longer life.
More independence, a healthier life, and increased comfort are only a few benefits of aging in place. You have to take into consideration the role of cost and convenience. Simply put, it's usually easier and more affordable to help seniors age in place than it is to move them into an institutional care facility. According to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, seniors who age in the comfort of their homes can save thousands of dollars per month.
In-home care services from Always Best Care, for instance, are often less expensive than long-term solutions, which can cost upwards of six figures per year. To make matters worse, many residential care facilities are reluctant to accept long-term care insurance and other types of payment assistance.
With Always Best Care's home care services, seniors and their families have a greater level of control over their care plans. In-home care gives seniors the chance to form a bond with a trusted caregiver and also receive unmatched care that is catered to their needs. In long-term care facilities, seniors and their loved ones have much less control over their care plan and have less of a say in who provides their care.
In-home care is a valuable resource that empowers seniors to age in place on their own terms. However, a big concern for many families and their loved ones is how much in-home care costs. If you're worried that in-home care is too expensive, you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that it is one of the most affordable senior care arrangements available.
Typically, hiring an Always Best Care in-home caregiver for a few hours a week is more affordable than sending your loved one to a long-term care facility. This is true even for seniors with more complex care needs.
At Always Best Care, we will work closely with you and your family to develop a Care Plan that not only meets your care needs, but your budget requirements, too. Once we discover the level of care that you or your senior need, we develop an in-home care plan that you can afford.
In addition to our flexible care options, families should also consider the following resources to help offset potential home care costs:
When you or your senior loved one needs assistance managing daily tasks at home, finding a qualified caregiver can be challenging. It takes a special kind of person to provide reliable care for your senior loved one. However, a caregiver's role involves more than meal preparation and medication reminders. Many seniors rely on their caregivers for companionship, too.
Our companion care services give seniors the chance to socialize in a safe environment and engage in activities at home. These important efforts boost morale and provide much-needed relief from repetitive daily routines. A one-on-one, engaging conversation can sharpen seniors' minds and give them something in which to be excited.
At Always Best Care, we only hire care providers that we would trust to care for our own loved ones. Our senior caregivers in Round Rock, TX understand how important it is to listen and communicate with their seniors. A seemingly small interaction, like a short hug goodbye, can make a major difference in a senior's day. Instead of battling against feelings of isolation, seniors begin to look forward to seeing their caregiver each week.
Understanding the nuances of senior care is just one of the reasons why our care providers are so great at their job.
Unlike some senior care companies, our caregivers must undergo extensive training before they work for Always Best Care. In addition, our caregivers receive ongoing training throughout the year. This training ensures that their standard of care matches up to the high standards we've come to expect. During this training, they will brush up on their communication skills, safety awareness, and symptom spotting. That way, your loved one receives the highest level of non-medical home care from day one.
While it's true that many seniors prefer to age at home, sometimes in-home care isn't the best fit. For those seniors and their families, choosing an assisted living facility makes more sense. Unfortunately, finding the optimal care facility is easier said than done in today's day and age. That's when Always Best Care's assisted living referral services begin to make a lot of sense.
Assisted living is a form of housing intended for seniors who require varying degrees of medical and personal attention. Accommodations may include single rooms, apartments, or shared living arrangements. Assisted living communities are typically designed to resemble a home-like environment and are physically constructed to encourage the independence of residents.
At assisted living communities, seniors receive help with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, and eating. They may also benefit from coordination of services with outside healthcare providers, and monitoring of resident activities to ensure their health, safety, and well-being. Caregivers who work at assisted living communities can also provide medication administration and personal care services for older adults.
Other services offered within assisted living communities can include some or all of the following:
At Always Best Care, our representatives can match your senior's emotional, physical, and financial needs with viable assisted living communities nearby. Results are based on comparative data, so you can select the best choice for you or your loved one.
Always Best Care works closely with local senior living communities to gain valuable knowledge that we then use to help seniors and their loved ones make informed decisions. This information can include basic care and rent, resident availability, and services provided. Because Always Best Care is compensated by these communities, we provide senior living referral services at no extra cost to you.
Some of the most popular assisted living communities to consider in our area include the following:
For many seniors, moving into a senior living community revolves around how and when they want to make a transition to more involved care. Some seniors are more proactive about transitioning to independent living. Others choose to remain home until their care needs or other requirements are satisfied. Remember - our staff is here to help. Contact our office today to learn more about assisted living communities and how we can find a facility that exceeds your expectations.
The first step in getting quality in-home care starts with a personal consultation with an experienced Always Best Care Care Coordinator. This initial consultation is crucial for our team to learn more about you or your elderly loved one to discover the level of care required. Topics of this consultation typically include:
A discussion of your needs and how our trained caregivers can offer assistance in the most effective way
A draft of your care plan, which includes highly detailed notes and a framework for the care that you or your senior will receive
Discuss payment options and help coordinate billing with your insurance provider
Our caregivers are trained to spot changes that clients exhibit, like mental and physical decline. As your trusted senior care company, we will constantly assess and update your Care Plan to meet any new emotional, intellectual, physical, and emotional needs.
If you have never considered in-home care before, we understand that you and your family may have concerns about your Care Plan and its Care Coordinator. To help give you peace of mind, know that every team member and caregiver must undergo comprehensive training before being assigned to a Care Plan.
At the end of the day, we only hire the best of the best at Always Best Care. Whether you need home care in Round Rock, TX 24-hours a day or only need a respite for a couple of hours, we are here to serve you.
When you're ready, we encourage you to contact your local Always Best Care representative to set up a Care Consultation. Our Care Coordinators would be happy to meet with you in person to get to know you better, discuss your needs, and help put together a personalized Care Plan specific to your needs.
Esri’s Community Maps Program adopts user data worldwide to improve and update our vector basemaps. One way users can contribute to Community Maps is with the Community Maps (CM) Editor app. Our Editor App gives users the option to create details such as sports fields, landscaping, buildings, points of interest, and more to enhance your basemap. As of today, editors have improved thousands of basemap locations around the world. Who are the editors you might ask? Me, you, a student, a professor...
Esri’s Community Maps Program adopts user data worldwide to improve and update our vector basemaps. One way users can contribute to Community Maps is with the Community Maps (CM) Editor app. Our Editor App gives users the option to create details such as sports fields, landscaping, buildings, points of interest, and more to enhance your basemap. As of today, editors have improved thousands of basemap locations around the world. Who are the editors you might ask? Me, you, a student, a professor, a city or county GIS worker, a business… anyone can edit in the app. It is openly accessible as long as you have an ArcGIS Online account! In the app, commonly enhanced areas of interest include university campuses, schools and parks, major league stadiums, and hospitals…but what about an entire city?
The City of Round Rock, Texas, located just under 30-minutes from Austin, is an Editor App powerhouse. City IT employees, and interns, were early adopters of the application when it first went live in 2019, and continue to use the app today. With the app, Round Rock has added detail to hundreds of locations across their city, transforming their basemap into a rich resource that is used by departments city-wide.
Let’s explore how Round Rock is putting their basemap to work!
Keeping the basemap up to date with real-world changes is easy in the app. Editorsimprove their basemap at their own pace, with the option to use their community’s imagery. This flexible approach creates more detailed and valuable maps without requiring a city-wide update.
Joanne Land Playground in Old Settler’s park is a great example of speedy updates. When the park reopened in April 2026 after renovation, Round Rock didn’t have to wait long to see it reflected on the map. Within a month, the playground had been fully digitized in the Community Maps Editor and published to Esri’s vector basemaps. Once published, the enhanced basemap was immediately available in Round Rock’s Park Amenity Explorer, showcasing playground areas, walking paths, buildings, and landscaping.
Find more Round Rock transformations here!
Consistent contributions to Esri’s Community Maps Program have helped create a feature-rich basemap experience for both our citizens and staff. Coupled with the power of the Vector Tile Style Editor, we’re able to tailor the basemap to fit each web map and app’s specific needs.
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The more detailed basemaps are, the more valuable and versatile they become.Enhancements to Esri’s basemaps empower Round Rock to:
Highly detailed basemaps have endless uses! Explore how Round Rock is putting their basemap to work with the CityView app, and follow this storymap experience for more examples!
Click on the layers tab in the app to explore a plethora of essential city information! Web apps such as these improve public services and provide essential information for departments throughout the city.
Interested in enhancing your community’s basemap using the Community Maps Editor? Get started by joining our AGOL group, and following our learn path. Reach out to [email protected] to request a demo!
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ROUND ROCK, Texas - Amber Feller Landrum, Vera Southwell, Gregory Andrew, and Ayaan Moledina are the candidates running for Round Rock ISD School Board Place 3.Meet the candidatesThe backstory:Amber Feller Landrum has been on the Board of Trustees since 2018."I think experience matters. You know, I've spent eight years on the board so far. My heart is in it. I do this for all the children," she said.Vera Southwell says her career has been in data analytics....
ROUND ROCK, Texas - Amber Feller Landrum, Vera Southwell, Gregory Andrew, and Ayaan Moledina are the candidates running for Round Rock ISD School Board Place 3.
The backstory:
Amber Feller Landrum has been on the Board of Trustees since 2018.
"I think experience matters. You know, I've spent eight years on the board so far. My heart is in it. I do this for all the children," she said.
Vera Southwell says her career has been in data analytics.
"I believe that the district needs thoughtful, responsible governance that looks beyond the current budget. I want to understand the risks, consider the alternatives, and measure the results," she said.
Greogory Andrew is a nurse practitioner retired from the U.S. Army Reserves.
"If you want something you don't have, you need to do something different. You just have to," he said. "We are going to bring our teachers in, and they are going be represented far beyond any union could ever do. We're going to listen to them. We're going to have them sit down. We're to make absolutely certain that if you are face-to-face hands-on with a kid, you are what makes this machine operate."
Ayaan Moledina just turned 18 and regularly does advocacy work at the State Capitol. He wants to run for school board because he wants to create more support for students that he felt he didn't have and bring more representation to the board.
"It's so important that we have a fresh voice and fresh perspective because education now and eight years ago has changed so much and to have someone who was in Round Rock ISD classrooms just a few years ago is an invaluable perspective," he said.
What they're saying:
One of the biggest issues for the school district is a roughly $6 million budget deficit.
Feller Landrum says a problem is the state legislature not funding public education.
"We've made cuts, and cuts, and cuts and cuts. Every year, we're cutting our budget by millions of dollars. Our annual budget is around $500 million, and we're cutting that on a regular basis. What we've done so far is we've tried not to touch the classrooms, and tried not to touch our staff and our teachers, because that's our most sacred commodity," Feller Landrum said.
"We must look beyond one year of budgets. Budget is what we plan to spend this year, and strategy is what is our plan and how are you going to sustain those choices over a long time. The district has both. However, I would like to see more financial and operational connection between the two," Southwell said.
"I think we need to look at what we can shave. I'm not about cutting things and throwing the baby out with the bath water. We're going to need to sit down and talk about could we, are there services we could contract?" Andrew said. "I think that what we should do is go out into the community and bring some big high profile guy. I don't know, Michael Dell, come in, bring him in and have him help us out as a superintendent. Elon Musk, somebody like that, have him come in."
"I would be hesitant to proactively say anything [to cut]. I would want to hear from administration on what they think first, and then based on that push back and take back to them what I think can and can't be cut, because they know better than anyone," Moledina said.
By the numbers:
Round Rock ISD also has a VATRE on the ballot this year, which stands for voter-approved tax rate election.
For the median-value home in Round Rock, this would be about $200 more per year in property taxes.
"50 percent of that money will go to teacher and staff raises and to supplement health care increase costs, but the other 50% will go back to the state for the state to use in their general fund," Feller Landrum said.
"I support teachers being paid well. Teachers face our students, they definitely should be paid very well. However, my concern is with financial sustainability. We need to understand where we will take money next year, not only this year," Southwell said.
"We're against it. We're wanting to vote no against that package. These things, they just rush these things through and people vote for it as an impulse because they think that this is really what's going to make things better. It's just another example of dumping more money into a system that we need to pull back and save," Andrew said.
"I'm in full support of the VATRE. I honestly think it doesn't go far enough. I hope that later down the line we can work towards a $20 an hour minimum wage for our staff in Round Rock ISD," Moledina said.
Dig deeper:
Moledina also addressed a video on social media of what appears to be him fighting another student.
"The video that was edited, highly edited, was a video of me and one of my close friends from high school that were messing around being teenage boys. The fact that that is being weaponized is disgraceful. It is disgusting," he said.
Andrew was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in a road rage case in 2024. That was ultimately dismissed.
"It doesn't excuse the fact that there was an encounter on the road that was not pleasant. I don't think I did anything wrong. I was caught between, I was in an unfortunate situation," he said.
The Source: Information in this report comes from reporting/interviews by FOX 7 Austin's Angela Shen
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas State celebrated the opening of its first-ever Round Rock campus weather station last week.“So we’ve been working on this idea for about a year. I just happened to say, casually one time, I would love to build a weather station for Texas State University,” said Kenny L. Tapp, a meteorologist and lecturer with the university’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. He teaches a popular general elective meteorology course.“We can show them, [these are] the cool...
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas State celebrated the opening of its first-ever Round Rock campus weather station last week.
“So we’ve been working on this idea for about a year. I just happened to say, casually one time, I would love to build a weather station for Texas State University,” said Kenny L. Tapp, a meteorologist and lecturer with the university’s Department of Geography and Environmental Studies. He teaches a popular general elective meteorology course.
“We can show them, [these are] the cool weather instruments, and then we can look at the weather data in the classroom and in their homework and actually get to, it’s just as much as we can in meteorology with hands-on with the weather data, this is a way to do it,” Tapp said. “And there’s just a lot of cool weather that happens in our part of Texas.”
When he began looking for a spot for the project, he just looked out the window of his lecture hall at the open field.
Tapp worked with the Texas Water Development Board to design the station for teaching, research, and collecting real-time data for the community.
“As we came together, we worked together, we built with the manual, we learned how to go step by step, like how the state sensors work and how all these instruments will be built one by one,” said Texas State Graduate student Lidia Roy.
Graduate students like Roy, along with faculty and alumni, helped install the new weather station this summer. It began collecting information shortly afterward.
The weather station features instruments that collect a wide range of data, including wind speed and direction, temperature, dew point, humidity, solar radiation, rain totals, and rainfall intensity.
“We have a pretty good data set already, over 700,000 individual data points to look at,” Jonathan Gholson, a Texas State graduate student, said.
The weather station has already measured a high temperature of 103 degrees and a wind gust of 52 miles per hour since it was installed.
Tapp drew inspiration for the station from his time at the University of Oklahoma, where he worked with the Oklahoma Mesonet.
It’s a network of weather stations designed to measure meteorological events on the mesoscale, such as thunderstorms and cold fronts.
The data from the weather station will contribute to the Texas Mesonet and be available to the National Weather Service to input into its models.
“The more observations we have, the higher quality observations we have, the better our models will forecast. I’ll give you a great example,” said Tapp. “Our advances in forecasting hurricane track and arrival onshore have gotten dramatically better in the last 20 years because of satellite technology. More observations, better models. The same goes true with networks.”
The university and its partners gathered on Friday, October 9th for a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the weather station.
Partners on the project included the Texas Water Development Board, the Texas State University vice president at Round Rock, and the university’s STEM4ALL Partnership and Research Initiative program director.
Alongside contributing data to weather prediction, Tapp says education is the primary goal.
“And it’s just about helping our students observe the world around them. And connect it to what’s happening in our own backyard just to really solidify these weather concepts that we’re teaching.”
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