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How does In-home Senior Care in Princeton, LA 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 Princeton, LA, 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 Princeton, LA 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 Princeton,LA 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 Princeton, LA

Princeton Perks Wraps Up Its Pandemic-Era Effort, with $30,000 Raised for PTOs

Dear Princeton,We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the local businesses that participated in the Princeton Perks fundraising program over the past two years–and to the many people in our community and beyond who purchased a Princeton Perks discount card. Thanks to your generosity, the Princeton Public Schools parent-teacher organizations raised more than $13,000 in 2022 and $17,000 in 2021. These funds allowed our organizations to continue to provide important enrichment programs, including aftercare ...

Dear Princeton,

We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the local businesses that participated in the Princeton Perks fundraising program over the past two years–and to the many people in our community and beyond who purchased a Princeton Perks discount card. Thanks to your generosity, the Princeton Public Schools parent-teacher organizations raised more than $13,000 in 2022 and $17,000 in 2021. These funds allowed our organizations to continue to provide important enrichment programs, including aftercare clubs, as well as activities and materials for low income students. They were a light in the darkest moments of the pandemic when many of our schools’ traditional in-person fundraising events were impossible to hold. And we are full of gratitude.

Our schools are now returning to many of our pre-pandemic fundraising efforts, and so the Princeton Perks program will end on December 31. We hope it has been of value to you as it has been to our schools. You gave gifts to our children that will last a lifetime!

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In Their Own Voices: Princeton Pro Musica & La Fiocco

Princeton Pro Musica collaborates with the regional based Baroque ensemble La Fiocco for a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium on Sunday, March 19, at 4 p.m.In order to share some thoughts prior to the performance, Princeton Pro Musica artistic director Ryan James Brandau offers the following excerpted statement regarding the work first performed on Good Friday, 1724:Bach's St....

Princeton Pro Musica collaborates with the regional based Baroque ensemble La Fiocco for a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion at Princeton University's Richardson Auditorium on Sunday, March 19, at 4 p.m.

In order to share some thoughts prior to the performance, Princeton Pro Musica artistic director Ryan James Brandau offers the following excerpted statement regarding the work first performed on Good Friday, 1724:

Bach's St. John Passion opens and closes with extensive movements for chorus, with orchestra (the final chorus is followed by a chorale). In between, the musical material of the St. John Passion unfolds across several temporal planes, each with its own text type, purpose, and style.

One layer is that of the biblical narrative — the actual words from John, chapters 18 and 19, outlining the actions and conversations that make up the story. An “evangelist” (a tenor soloist) and other figures from the bible (Jesus, Pilate, et. al.), recite this prose, as music, in a form of heightened speech called recitative.

Bach intermittently presses pause on the biblical narrative, slows down time, and steps aside from the immediate action in a second layer: solo arias. Here, the text is not biblical prose but highly emotive devotional poetry that reflects on some aspect of the action we’ve experienced.

The remaining layer (is the) chorales. These movements, sung by the chorus, accompanied by the full orchestra, present hymn tunes, harmonized in four parts, with poetic texts, set syllabically, in regular phrase groups.

In Bach’s own church, the congregation likely would have sung along. Thus the chorales offer the community gathered a moment for collective contemplation.

The opening chorus of the Passion establishes one of its principal themes, a paradox: that “Jesus, at the moment of greatest abasement, has become glorified.”

One sometimes overlooked feature of Bach’s church music, meant not as facile entertainment but as a conveyance of a biblical text and concomitant significance, is that it’s sometimes meant to be fiendishly difficult. The challenge is sometimes part of the aesthetic and religious experience.

Additionally, in another statement, LaFiocco founder Lewis R. Baratz provided the following thoughts about the history and the involvement of the period music ensemble engaged to present the work in its original tonality.

La Fiocco’s original purpose was to cultivate local musicians in Bucks County who were interested in performing music of the Baroque era on period instruments. After becoming a nonprofit in 2011, the mission changed to introducing and educating people of all ages to the music of the Baroque and early Classical eras as well as the aesthetic and historical contexts of the music performed.

La Fiocco’s initial musicians were mostly local to Bucks County and the environs. Today, most musicians come from New York and Philadelphia; others come from as far as Boston and North Carolina to perform with La Fiocco.

Some of the highlights of La Fiocco include concerts that featured the countertenor voice, with several young artists who have since gone on to perform at the Metropolitan opera and on stages throughout Europe.

Period ensembles perform on instruments that are either originals or copies of 17th and 18th century originals. But it goes beyond that; the players need to be experienced in historical performance techniques and completely understand what their instrument is capable of doing and how to play it expressively.

For example, modern orchestras strive to achieve a uniformity of sound, with the power and expression needed to fill a large hall whereas musicians of the 17th and 18th centuries relied on a wide range of articulations to inflect meaning into their music. Modern orchestral performers are trained from an early age to be 100 percent faithful to the written score—indeed, composers of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries are often explicit in details concerning dynamics, phrasing, tempo, and other expressive devices.

Historical performance practice, on the other hand, demands knowledge of historical context and the ability to understand the rhetorical, religious, or dance-like qualities of the music, and then the performer must have the technical ability to inflect these qualities through the use of articulation, phrasing, rhythmic alteration, and ornamentation.

Despite Bach and Handel being on concert programs for well over a hundred years, music manuscripts and prints from the 17th and 18th centuries are still being rediscovered, transcribed, and edited all the time. There remains a wealth of little-known repertory in Western European libraries; my own research for two years in a Belgian library introduced me to more than 400 virtually unknown works by composers working in early 18th-century Brussels.

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, works of both well-known and more obscure composers came to light. The amazing manuscript compiled in part by J. S. Bach of the music of Bach relatives of his father and grandfather’s generation disappeared after World War II with the Soviet Army’s return home, and it turned up in 1999 in, of all places, Kyiv, and was returned to Berlin with approximately 5000 other manuscripts.

Today’s performers of Baroque music often bring a great deal of excitement and creativity to their work. They’re not the stuffed shirts of past days. And there are many areas we are just rediscovering, for example: Mesoamerican music, a legacy of Spanish colonialism found today in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and in South America. The religious music tradition of this culture has a history mired in brutality against the indigenous peoples, something we are only beginning to understand. And even closer to home, there has been recent research into the contributions of Americans of African descent, especially the contributions of the Hemings family, who are generally acknowledged to be the sons and grandchildren of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and their close relatives, the Scotts, who descend from Sally Hemings’ older sister. So there is much work to do still and much to share with our audiences.

St. John's Passion, Princeton Pro Musica, Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University. Sunday, March 19, 4 p.m. $25 to $60. www.prince-tonpromusica.org.

Inaugural L.A. Street Festival Culminates with First FIBA 3x3 World Tour Win for USA’s Team Princeton

The inaugural L.A. Street Festival culminated on Saturday, September 21 with Team Princeton (USA) taking the win over No. 2 ranked Team Liman of Serbia in a nail-biting FIBA 3x3 World Tour final game. In front of a full house, Princeton led the entire game and made history as they claimed their first FIBA World Tour Masters title with a final score of 16-11. The two-day block party welcomed thousands of fans who enjoyed an immersive L.A. cultural experience, including the first-ever FIBA 3x3 World Tour stop in Los Angeles, a ...

The inaugural L.A. Street Festival culminated on Saturday, September 21 with Team Princeton (USA) taking the win over No. 2 ranked Team Liman of Serbia in a nail-biting FIBA 3x3 World Tour final game. In front of a full house, Princeton led the entire game and made history as they claimed their first FIBA World Tour Masters title with a final score of 16-11. The two-day block party welcomed thousands of fans who enjoyed an immersive L.A. cultural experience, including the first-ever FIBA 3x3 World Tour stop in Los Angeles, a Hoop It Up 3x3 tournament and an open esports Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament this past weekend.

“Basketball is the most popular sport in America and 3x3 represents the perfect blend of streetball and world-class caliber athleticism,” said Patrick Soon-Shiong, Chairman and CEO of NantWorks and Executive Chairman of the Los Angeles Times. “We were thrilled to introduce the FIBA 3x3 World Tour in Los Angeles, get the community on the court for the Hoop It Up open tournament and see so many kids and families enjoying the esports and hoops activities at the festival.”

Twelve teams from around the globe competed in the FIBA 3x3 World Tour event at the L.A. Street Festival, giving fans a last chance to see the sport up close before its debut in the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020. Olympic hopeful athletes including the tournament’s MVP, Los Angeles native Kareem Maddox of Team Princeton (USA), and three-time FIBA world champion Dušan Bulut (SRB) competed for prize money and the L.A. title.

“This win is absolutely huge,” said Maddox. “We’ve been playing together for a long time and we have gotten really close in the past, but we couldn’t get over the hump. To win in L.A., in front of a home crowd, our only domestic tournament, is so big. Thank you to all the fans.”

Princeton, currently ranked No. 4, defeated the FIBA 3x3 World Tour’s No. 1 team Novi Sad of Serbia in the semi-finals to earn their spot in the final game. Other teams that competed over the weekend included Zemun (SRB), Liman (SRB), Gagarin (RUS), Lausanne (CHE), Amsterdam (NED), Jeddah (SAU), Piran (SLO), Ulaanbaatar (MGL), Rio Norte (BRA) and São Paulo DC (BRA). The final results are included in FIBA’s news release.

FIBA and the Los Angeles Times media group announced in June that they would bring the annual FIBA 3x3 World Tour Final to Los Angeles from 2020 through 2023.

In between the 3x3 action, the on-court entertainment included breaking battles, a three-point shootout and a high-flying dunk contest featuring celebrity judges, former FIBA and NBA stars Rick Fox and Andrei Kirilenko. Myree “Reemix” Bowden (USA) sealed the win in the dunk contest powered by L.A. Times over competitors Tyler Currie, and former Harlem Globetrotter and 2018 alum of “The Bachelorette” Chris Staples. Szymon Rduch (Team Jeddah - KSA) won the shoot-out contest, presented by Monster Energy.

In addition, Hoop It Up, the largest grassroots 3x3 basketball tour in the U.S. owned by former NBA Most Valuable Player, All Star and World Champion Kevin Garnett, previewed their 2020 tour with an open tournament all weekend long. Garnett was also among the celebrities in attendance over the two-day event.

Hundreds of gamers competed in an open esports Super Smash Bros. Ultimate tournament where the grand prize winner took home $5000 and runner ups won a variety of coveted gaming gear.

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Will Beesley's Ivy League smarts key in Warren De La Salle's hot start

Special to Detroit Free PressParents tell their children all the time, “Don’t sit so close to the screen — you’ll ruin your eyesight.” But that advice didn’t sink in for Warren De La Salle linebacker Will Beesley.Whenever the Pilots offense is on the field, you’ll find Beesley in the first seat on the bench next to a large video monitor, reviewing the o...

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Parents tell their children all the time, “Don’t sit so close to the screen — you’ll ruin your eyesight.” But that advice didn’t sink in for Warren De La Salle linebacker Will Beesley.

Whenever the Pilots offense is on the field, you’ll find Beesley in the first seat on the bench next to a large video monitor, reviewing the opponents’ play-calling trends.

How has that worked out? Well, Beesley’s eyesight is fine and when he returns to the turf, he can see plays as they are developing.

“The guys trust me and they trust what I see out there. I try and pick up on the things that they’re doing and just try to get the win,” Beesley said following De La Salle’s 17-7 first-place-clinching victory Friday over Novi Detroit Catholic Central at Wayne State University.

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What else would account for his insane performance in last season’s Division 2 state finals loss to Muskegon Mona Shores, where Beesley made 20 tackles — 17 of them solo? What else would explain Beesley’s safety in the overtime win against Oak Park in the semifinal?

What else would cause Beesley to come off the edge, hit the running back and put heavy pressure on Catholic Central’s quarterback Friday, forcing a key interception?

And more importantly — why else would 5-0 De La Salle be the top-ranked Division 2 team in the state?

“Will’s job is to be the best defensive player on the field,” coach Dan Rohn said. “He is the best defensive player on the field, and when he’s playing the way Will Beesley plays, we’re going to be a great football team. He sets the tone, not only for us defensively, but for the entire football team.”

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With his hard-nosed play, Beesley’s commanded the respect of everyone on the Pilot roster.

“Will Beesley is an amazing player,” junior quarterback Brady Drogosh said. “He’s the leader of our team, the absolute leader of our team. Not just the defense, the leader of the whole team. We all love Will. He’s going to be remembered as one of the all-time greats here at De La Salle.”

Drogosh is a dual-threat quarterback who is frequently a leading rusher for the Pilots, but he’ll even concede on occasion so Beesley can take a wildcat snap when De La Salle is a yard or two away from the goal line. Beesley scored the final touchdown against CC on a 1-yard plunge, and also scored in similar fashion during the Pilots’ nonleague win over River Rouge last month.

Last season, Beesley carried the ball just a dozen times, but five of those attempts resulted in touchdowns.

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“They let me have a few snaps there, but not too much,” he said. “I love to do it all. Offense, defense, even special teams — I beg my coaches to let me go out on kickoffs and hit somebody.”

Perhaps it’s the Beesley family mentality. Will’s older brother, Drew, is a Michigan State graduate student using his final season of eligibility for the Spartans this fall as a defensive end. Drew, a member of De La Salle’s 2014 state champion squad, holds the school‘s career record for tackles for losses.

“It’s a football family,” Rohn said. “It’s a rooted, hard-nosed, grind-it-out football family and his brother’s having a great career at Michigan State. Will’s going to follow along and go to Princeton and do great things.”

Beesley jumped at the chance to become an Ivy Leaguer, committing after spending his spring break visiting the campus in New Jersey.

“I think that Will’s one of the most underrated players in the area,” Rohn said. “If he was 6-4, he’d probably play anywhere in the country. He’s not that tall, but you can’t take away his character, his development, his growth and his heart.”

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Besides, Princeton isn’t a bad place to land, whether you play football or not.

“It was a no-brainer,” Beesley said. “They talked about a 40-year decision, not just a four-year decision. It just felt like home at the end of the day. I saw that campus and I fell in love with it. I knew when I stepped on campus, it was the place that I wanted to go.”

While at Princeton, Beesley said he’s likely to major in economics or finance. His favorite class at De La Salle is a business course taught by defensive backs coach Mike Shortt.

“We’re learning about taxes, fees, checking accounts, all that good stuff,” he said.

Until he departs for Princeton, De La Salle can bank on Beesley leading the team with his field vision and inspiring play.

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