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How does In-home Senior Care in Marble Falls, TX work?

Home is where the heart is. While that saying can sound a tad cliche, it's 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 ages, giving them the gift of senior care is one of the best ways to show your love, even if you live far away.

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Aging in Place: The Preferred Choice for Most Seniors

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.

In-home care makes it possible for millions of seniors to age in place every year. Rather than moving to a unfamiliar assisted living community, seniors have the chance to stay at home where they feel the happiest and most comfortable.

Here are just a few of the reasons why older men and women prefer to age at home:

Comfort
Comfort

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, that a senior's home is where they want to grow old. With the help of elderly care in Marble Falls, 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.

Healthy Living
Healthy Living

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.

Independence
Independence

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 an assisted living community. 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.

Cost and Convenience
Cost and Convenience

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 to help seniors age in place than it is to move them into an institutional care facility. In-home care services from Always Best Care, for instance, can be 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 in Marble Falls, TX 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.

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Affordable Care Plans

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:

Veteran's Benefits
Veteran's Benefits

Aid and Attendance benefits through military service can cover a portion of the costs associated with in-home care for veterans and their spouses.

Long-Term Care Insurance
Long-Term Care Insurance

Many senior care services like in-home care are included in long-term care insurance options. Research different long-term care solutions to find a plan that provides coverage for senior care.

Private Insurance
Private Insurance

Home care can be included as part of a senior's private insurance plan. Read over your loved one's insurance policy carefully or speak with their insurance provider to determine if in-home care is covered.

Life Insurance
Life Insurance

Depending on the life insurance plan, you may be able to apply your policy toward long-term care. You may be able to use long-term-care coverage to help pay for in-home elderly care.


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During your Care Plan consultation with Always Best Care, your Care Coordinator will speak with you about in-home care costs and what options there may be to help meet your budget needs.

Compassionate Care. Trusted Caregivers

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 Marble Falls,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.

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Taking the First Step with Always Best Care

The first step in getting quality in-home care starts with a personal consultation with an experienced 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:

An assessment of your senior loved one

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An in-depth discussion of the needs of your senior loved one to remain in their own home

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Reviewing a detailed Care Plan that will meet your senior loved one's needs

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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.

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.

Latest News in Marble Falls, TX

'My heart was pounding' | Marble Falls community rallies behind businesses destroyed in fire

Flames ripped through a strip mall on First Street Wednesday night.MARBLE FALLS, Texas — A small piece of Marble Falls is gone after a fire ripped through a strip mall on Wednesday night.The livelihoods of some business owners have been left in rubble, leaving them in a position where they are forced to pick up the pieces.The flames destroyed a Taekwondo center...

Flames ripped through a strip mall on First Street Wednesday night.

MARBLE FALLS, Texas — A small piece of Marble Falls is gone after a fire ripped through a strip mall on Wednesday night.

The livelihoods of some business owners have been left in rubble, leaving them in a position where they are forced to pick up the pieces.

The flames destroyed a Taekwondo center, an afterschool program, a makeup store and an eyelash studio.

According to a GoFundMe fundraiser, Kelly Lee, who operates the Taekwondo Center and Marble Falls Best After School Program and Summer camp, has raised more than $13,000, already beyond her initial goal of $10,000.

The link says the money is going toward the staff payroll, while everything else will be invested in new equipment.

Another GoFundMe link was created by and for the owners of Beautiful & Blessed, while another link was created for another small business within the strip mall.

While these links are requesting help, community members have expressed that those who owned these businesses are not alone.

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Cheryl Westerman owns the Ms Lollipop Parties, Fun & Gifts candy store on Main Street, which is just up the road from where the charred strip mall sits.

Westerman said as a business owner herself, she can only imagine the heartbreak her fellow business owners are experiencing and hopes to put together a fundraiser on their behalf.

"Marble Falls comes together when there is someone in need or businesses in need of anything," Westerman said.

Westerman recalled first seeing the smoke billowing Wednesday night and seeing and hearing the sirens before a crowd quickly formed as firefighters arrived and worked to contain the fierce flames.

"I was standing with a business owner who had a business in the building, and she was just like, 'That's our life,'" Westerman said.

The Highland Lake Crisis Network also posted on their Facebook page that they are also accepting donations for those affected by the First Street fire.

Investigators are still working to determine the cause of the fire.

Those impacted by Marble Falls fire focusing on recovery after building deemed 'total loss'

MARBLE FALLS, Texas — A Marble falls Property owner captured drone footage of the fire that caused an entire strip center to go up in flames Wednesday evening.The Marble Falls Fire Department tells CBS Austin the blaze broke out around 5p.m. and has left many devastated. The building housed restaurant China Kitchen and other businesses has been deemed a total loss, leaving many without jobs....

MARBLE FALLS, Texas — A Marble falls Property owner captured drone footage of the fire that caused an entire strip center to go up in flames Wednesday evening.

The Marble Falls Fire Department tells CBS Austin the blaze broke out around 5p.m. and has left many devastated. The building housed restaurant China Kitchen and other businesses has been deemed a total loss, leaving many without jobs.

Marble Falls Fire Chief Tom Crane says thankfully everyone managed to get out safely. Right now, the State Fire Marshals office is investigating to learn what started the fire.

RELATED| Fire destroys 18 Marble Falls businesses; State Fire Marshals investigates

“We always feel awful for anybody that loses anything business wise, personal wise or anything like that. I will say, this community of Marble Falls has stepped up. Citizens have been bringing in supplies and supporting us. That’s made it really nice and easy to do our jobs,” said Crane.

This is what the popular strip center on 705 First St. in Marble Falls use to look like. It’s now been burnt down to the ground after a fire engulfed the property demolishing 18 businesses.

Before Marble Falls Fire

Jason Coleman owns the strip center right next door to where the blaze ignited.

“I was very nervous that my building would catch on fire when I saw the flames,” he said.

Coleman just bought the building three days ago. Although he’s now tasked with repairing his new investment, Coleman is thankful firefighters managed to protect his structure considering the flames were just inches away.

“I feel extremely blessed to be in this community and the support I’ve received from other business tenants have just been phenomenal. Just a strong Christian community. I just praise God that my building didn’t go down,” said Coleman.

Logan Copsetta and Tyler Ellerbe were eyewitnesses and said that after smelling smoke and seeing people evacuate, they jumped in to help fight the fire before officials could make it to the scene.

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“He grabbed a fire hose, and we were holding it back for about five or ten minutes before first responders came,” said Copsetta.

The men add many in the close-knit community are sad to see the strip center gone.

“That’s a very historic building especially for small towns like historical building especially next to the square are really detrimental to the population,” he said.

Fire Crews were out Thursday keeping a watchful eye to ensure nothing kindles. Several GoFundMe accounts were started to help businesses who lost everything.

They are listed below if you would like to help:

Fundraisers aiding Marble Falls businesses, staff affected by Oct. 4 fire

Chloe Lambert, an 8-year-old former student of Family Taekwondo Center in Marble Falls, told her mother, “Mom, we have to do something,” when she found out a fire destroyed the building where she once practiced.Her mother, Elizabeth Lambert, and others agreed, leading to at least three organized efforts to help the businesses impacted by the Oct. 4 fire that gutted much o...

Chloe Lambert, an 8-year-old former student of Family Taekwondo Center in Marble Falls, told her mother, “Mom, we have to do something,” when she found out a fire destroyed the building where she once practiced.

Her mother, Elizabeth Lambert, and others agreed, leading to at least three organized efforts to help the businesses impacted by the Oct. 4 fire that gutted much of First Street Plaza, which housed the taekwondo facility, China Kitchen, Texas Ink Slingers, Hudson Electric, Lakeside Smoke Shop and CBD, Hair Loft, and others.

Chloe and her mom are organizing a silent auction/bake sale/car wash benefit from noon to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 28 at First Baptist Church, 901 La Ventana Drive.

“(Chloe) wanted to do something for the community, the taekwondo center, China Kitchen, and all those businesses that now have to re-figure it out and start from the bottom up,” Elizabeth Lambert said. “She’s the one that planted the seed in my head. ‘Mom, we have to do something,’ were her words. I dropped her off at school, and it just clicked that we needed to do this.”

The nonprofit Highland Lakes Crisis Network, made up of local churches, established a displaced employee fund that will directly benefit those who lost their workplace in the blaze.

“We don’t even know all of the details and what ripples the fire may have for people and their families, so we just want to be ready to respond to those (ripples) as they come up,” said HLCN Executive Director Kevin Naumann. “We just want to provide an opportunity for people to give funding and then also provide an opportunity for those who may have been impacted to have a resource with community support.”

Naumann said crises such as the fire are precisely why the Crisis Network organization exists.

“Anytime something major happens in the area, we want to be able to leverage people in the community who love each other to help each other out and support where it’s needed,” he said.

Employees displaced by the fire may call 325-423-3662 to receive assistance. Donations can be made online or by mailing a check to 1000 Ridge Point Drive, Marble Falls, TX 78654, with the memo line “1st Street Fires.”

“If we need to come pick (the donation) up, we’ll do that, too,” Naumann said. “We’ll do whatever we need to do to help.”

A GoFundMe donation webpage has been set up to support Family Taekwondo Center. At the time of this story’s publication, the page had raised over $12,000 to help the local business.

“For the immediate time being I need to cover payroll for my staff for the work they’ve done this week, as well as living expenses now that my source of income is gone, temporarily,” Family Taekwondo Center owner Kelly Lee wrote on the page.

Proceeds from the HLCN fundraiser and the Oct. 28 benefit at First Baptist-Marble Falls will be divided among each business impacted by the fire.

“I’m really hoping the community can come together and show love to those businesses because they’ve all been there for us, so we need to be there for them,” Lambert said.

Marble Falls going to mandatory Stage 3 water restrictions

The city of Marble Falls will implement Stage 3 water restrictions from its Drought Contingency Plan on Thursday, Aug. 3, in an effort to reduce all water usage by 20 percent. The restrictions apply to Marble Falls water users inside and outside of the city limits. “Stage 3 comes down to us from the state,” Mayor Dave Rhodes told DailyTrib.com. “It’s not optional.”The last time Marble Falls was under Stage 3 restrictions was 2017.Stage 3 lays out mandatory restrictions on watering landscaped...

The city of Marble Falls will implement Stage 3 water restrictions from its Drought Contingency Plan on Thursday, Aug. 3, in an effort to reduce all water usage by 20 percent. The restrictions apply to Marble Falls water users inside and outside of the city limits.

“Stage 3 comes down to us from the state,” Mayor Dave Rhodes told DailyTrib.com. “It’s not optional.”

The last time Marble Falls was under Stage 3 restrictions was 2017.

Stage 3 lays out mandatory restrictions on watering landscaped areas, which, as of Aug. 3, will be limited to one time a week between 7 p.m. and 10 a.m. based on the following schedule:

Watering by hand-held hose with a positive shut-off device, drip irrigation systems, or a faucet-filled bucket or watering can of five gallons or less is allowed at any time.

Stage 3 will most likely stay in place until it rains, Rhodes said, “even if that rain isn’t here.”

Rains in the upper and lower Colorado River basin fill lakes Buchanan and Travis, the LCRA’s two reservoirs.

On Monday, July 31, the city produced 2.5 million gallons of water, City Manager Mike Hodge said. On a winter day, water demands are at about 1.5 million. On spring or fall days under normal conditions, water demands are at 1.8 million to 2 million gallons a day.

“That’s what we’re trying to get back to with a 20 percent reduction,” Hodge said. “Right now, we are waiting for inflows into the reservoirs to raise them back up. We just don’t know when God has that planned.”

Rhodes plans to introduce long-term strategies for water conservation at a future City Council meeting, including customer credits for installing new water technologies and xeriscaping.

“I want to save water with incentives instead of making things punitive,” he said.

Water customers are also being asked to conserve water in other ways by following suggestions on WaterSmart.org from the LCRA. The site provides runtime recommendations for outdoor irrigation and a lineup of residential rebates for irrigation system evaluations and equipment and pool, landscape, and soil testing.

Marble Falls is an LCRA firm water customer, buying all of its water from Lake Marble Falls. Recently, the City Council discussed installing a $7 million groundwater system that could increase water capacity by about half of what it now takes out of the lake.

"I feel numb, I don't feel anything right now," Marble Falls business owners losses everything in devastating fire

MARBLE, Falls — Tonight, we’re continuing to follow the devastating Marble Falls fire that caused an entire strip center to go up in flames. The fire that broke out Wednesday evening is still under investigation.CBS Austin spoke with owner Elizabeth Adams whose store was burnt down. Although she is very resilient – she still is having difficulty wrapping her head around what happened.“I told my husband I feel numb. I don’t feel anything right now. I’m just numb,” she said.For nea...

MARBLE, Falls — Tonight, we’re continuing to follow the devastating Marble Falls fire that caused an entire strip center to go up in flames. The fire that broke out Wednesday evening is still under investigation.

CBS Austin spoke with owner Elizabeth Adams whose store was burnt down. Although she is very resilient – she still is having difficulty wrapping her head around what happened.

“I told my husband I feel numb. I don’t feel anything right now. I’m just numb,” she said.

For nearly a decade Elizabeth Adams has owned Psychic Boutique in Marble Falls.

After eight years of being in business at a prime location, she was forced to find a new home for her store after the landlord sold the property.

“I got lucky and found a spot just a few doors down which was 705 First Street. I moved in October 1st and the fire happened on the fourth,” she said.

On the day of the fire, Adams and her son had just set up all her inventory at the new location. She found out that the business she had worked hard to obtain was up in flames after noticing something suspicious in the sky on her way home from the grocery store.

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“I seen big smoke. And I’m telling my husband – yep, our office is on fire. And as soon as we passed it, it was just engulfed. There was no saving it. But let me tell you- the firemen did a very good job at saving it. It was a battle,” she said.

The loss has now put a strain on Adams and her family.

“This is our main source of income. So, it has impacted me a great deal. And just moving in two days prior we did not have renters’ insurance so when we lostwe lost everything,” said Adams.

The mother, wife, and business owner said she’s thankful her family nor anyone else was injured or harmed during the fire. She’s now focused on starting over.

“It’s not going to stop us. I know we are going to rebuild. It’s just we don’t know how but we’re going to try. We’re not going to give up,” said Adams.

Adams is leaning on her faith to help her stay strong. She has also created a GoFundMe to help her family stay afloat during this trying time.

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