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How does In-home Senior Care in Lathrop, CA 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 Lathrop, CA, 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 Lathrop, CA 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

Attendance and aid 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 Lathrop,CA 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 Lathrop, CA

Tesla’s 40 GWh Megafactory in Lathrop is quickly ramping up production

Last week, in its Q4 2022 financial report, Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) revealed that the production capacity of its newly built Megafactory in Lathrop, California is 40 Gigawatt-hours a year.Tesla’s Q4 and full-year 2022 update document and the company’s official tweet say that the Lathrop Megafactory is constantly ramping up production of its Megapack battery energy storage system (BESS).Tesla acquired around 3 acres (1 million sq ft) of land for the Lathrop Megafactory in 2021. ...

Last week, in its Q4 2022 financial report, Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) revealed that the production capacity of its newly built Megafactory in Lathrop, California is 40 Gigawatt-hours a year.

Tesla’s Q4 and full-year 2022 update document and the company’s official tweet say that the Lathrop Megafactory is constantly ramping up production of its Megapack battery energy storage system (BESS).

Tesla acquired around 3 acres (1 million sq ft) of land for the Lathrop Megafactory in 2021. Tesla Energy broke ground for this Megapack production facility in September 2021 and the Mayor of Lathrop Sohni Dhaliwal addressed guests and Tesla employees at the occasion.

Tesla produced 2.5 GWh of energy storage at the Megafactory Lathrop in Q4 2022 alone which is more than 40% of the total production of 6.5 GWh in the entire year 2022. According to Tesla, its energy storage deployment grew by 152% in Q4 2022 compared to the same quarter last year.

Energy storage deployments increased by 152% YoY to 2.5 GWh in Q4, for a total deployment of 6.5 GWh in 2022—by far the highest level we have achieved.

We’re ramping production at our dedicated 40 GWh Megafactory in Lathrop, CA to address growing demand.

Let’s do a little Math to see how many cars can be produced with 40 GWh of battery production. 1 Gigawatt-hours (GWh) equals to 1 million kilowatt-hours (kWH) which is enough to produce around 15,000 Model Y or Model 3 cars. So, if we multiply 15,000 x 40 — we get 600,000 Model 3/Y electric vehicles from the battery production capacity of the Tesla Lathrop Megafactory.

But Tesla’s Megafactory Lathrop is dedicated to producing battery packs and entire Megapacks for energy storage systems. It is amazing to see that Tesla’s first Megafactory in Lathrop took only 1 year from groundbreaking to starting production of Megapacks.

“The energy business had its strongest year yet across all metrics led by steady improvement in both retail and commercial storage,” Tesla’s Director of Investor Relations said during the company’s Q4 2022 earnings call.

“While much work remains to grow this business and improve costs we believe we are on a good trajectory,” Martin added.

Tesla has multiple energy storage deployment projects going on in the US and abroad. Just last year, Tesla Megapacks helped Hawaii get rid of coal-powered electricity.

Stay tuned for constant Tesla updates, follow us on: Google News | Flipboard | RSS (Feedly).

Lathrop pay limit number pf hotels it will allow in city

As one of the fastest growing cities in California, growth has been a big part of Lathrop’s recent past – from the massive warehouses to the thousands of new homes that have gone in.But Lathrop’s planners and elected officials are now beginning to wonder – is development going a little bit too well in some areas?Tonight, the Lathrop Planning Commission will hold a special meeting to consider an ordinance that would cap the number of hotels in specific segments of the city to prevent all currently availab...

As one of the fastest growing cities in California, growth has been a big part of Lathrop’s recent past – from the massive warehouses to the thousands of new homes that have gone in.

But Lathrop’s planners and elected officials are now beginning to wonder – is development going a little bit too well in some areas?

Tonight, the Lathrop Planning Commission will hold a special meeting to consider an ordinance that would cap the number of hotels in specific segments of the city to prevent all currently available land from getting snapped up by hotel chains looking to expand their footprint along the growing corridor.

The Lathrop Planning Commission – which typically meets on the third Wednesday of every month at Lathrop Hall, located at 390 Towne Centre Drive, at 6 p.m. – will meet tonight inside of the council chambers at City Hall to consider the change to the city’s development code.

According to the staff report prepared for the commission, the proposed ordinance would cap the total number of hotels across specific areas of town – the Central Lathrop area near Lathrop High School, Mossdale Village, Mossdale Village South, and Mossdale Village East – to a total of six.

According to the report prepared for the Lathrop City Council earlier this year, there are already three hotels – a 97-room Fairfield Inn by Marriott on Manthey Road, a 97-room TownePlace Suites by Marriott on Golden Valley Parkway, and a 112-room Homewood Suites by Hilton on Golden Valley Parkway – that have already been approved, and a 93-room Home2Suites by Hilton is currently in the permit application process.

In Central Lathrop – the land around Lathrop High School all the way to the Mossdale Development – hotels are permitted uses and do not require special approval from the city while hotels located within the Mossdale area will require a conditional use permit.

That means that if the fourth hotel is formally approved, there will be able to be two more constructed on the west side of I-5 between the city limits and River Islands.

For additional information, or to obtain a copy of the staff report prepared for the special planning commission meeting, visit the City of Lathrop’s website at www.ci.lathrop.ca.us.

To contact Bulletin reporter Jason Campbell email [email protected] or call 209.249.3544.

Tesla Presents Its New Megapack Factory In Lathrop, California

Tesla's all-new battery energy storage system (BESS) factory in Lathrop, California is almost ready and is ramping up production.This week, the company showed a short video, presenting the plant and some of the production processes, on its Linkedin profile.Tesla is now looking for more employ...

Tesla's all-new battery energy storage system (BESS) factory in Lathrop, California is almost ready and is ramping up production.

This week, the company showed a short video, presenting the plant and some of the production processes, on its Linkedin profile.

Tesla is now looking for more employees - but that's not a surprise, as basically the entire EV industry is investing and competing for workers.

"Meet Megafactory, our new Megapack factory in Lathrop, CA.

Join us in manufacturing the future of energy storage."

Tesla's video can be also seen below, via TeslaNorth's upload:

The site in Lathrop is pretty big as it's envisioned for an annual output of 40 GWh of Tesla Megapack systems (according to the announcement from 2021).

A single Megapack container has a capacity of about 3 MWh, plus all necessary power electronics.

At 40 GWh, Tesla should be able to produce more than 13,000 Megapacks per year. That's an order of magnitude increase compared to its 2021 output.

With the new manufacturing facility, Tesla's Energy business is now expected to quickly expand. The company recently set a new quarterly record of 2.1 GWh of battery energy storage system deployment (all types).

Once the Lathrop plant is completed, more than 10 GWh to be installed per quarter. That will be a groundbreaking change for the entire industry and potentially a huge help to utilities, which are looking for high-volume and reasonably priced battery systems.

Tesla's advantage will be large BESS like the Megapack, series production at high volume and use of the Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery chemistry (the company previously announced the switch to LFP cells in entry-level version of its cars - Model 3/Model Y, and energy storage systems).

Currently, BESS accounts for only several percent of Tesla's total revenues and margins are much lower than in the case of cars. Because the company is quickly expanding its EV business (higher production of cars and new models), we guess that in the foreseeable future, BESS share will remain under 10%.

Lathrop OKs gates to keep people off levees

Encampments for the unsheltered, graffiti, and trash dumping have all been issues that the City of Lathrop has had to deal with in the area around the South Lathrop Specific Plan – the 315-acre area south of the Highway 120 Bypass that is used for commercial office and limited industrial purposes.So, they’re putting up fences and gates.The Lathrop City Council approved a consent calendar item on Monday night that will create a capital improvement project and fund the installation of gates that will keep people off o...

Encampments for the unsheltered, graffiti, and trash dumping have all been issues that the City of Lathrop has had to deal with in the area around the South Lathrop Specific Plan – the 315-acre area south of the Highway 120 Bypass that is used for commercial office and limited industrial purposes.

So, they’re putting up fences and gates.

The Lathrop City Council approved a consent calendar item on Monday night that will create a capital improvement project and fund the installation of gates that will keep people off of the levees maintained by Reclamation District 17 and off of city roads that are not intended to be accessed by the public,

They agreed to award a contract to Pisor Fence Division Inc. to complete the $54,508 job.

With a 20 percent contingency, the city will be allocating $65,410 to complete the work.

According to the staff report prepared for the council, the city received three qualified bids back from contractors – the lowest of which was from Pisor Fence Division, who were awarded the contract. All Steel Fence Inc. submitted a bid for $56,238.12 that was narrowly beat, while Stockton Fence and Material Co. submitted an unchosen bid for the same project for $94,264.

Funding for the project will come from Measure C – the one-cent sales tax increase that was overwhelmingly approved by voters more than a decade ago to fund essential city services and public safety.

The city will install steel fencing and gates at both ends of the RD 17 access tunnel from Mossdale County Park underneath Manthey Road and the westbound connector ramp from State Route 120 to I-5’s southbound lanes, and at two driveways at the north and south ends of Jefferson Road.

A 4,000-foot segment of Howland Road will also be closed off from vehicles after storms in late December and early January severely damaged the roadway – forcing the city to close the road to prevent liability from vehicle damage that would come from the extensive potholes that the storm caused.

Because of the high cost of maintaining that road and the relatively little use that it gets, the city has plans to abandon that section of Howland Road in the future.

For additional information, or to view the staff report for the item, visit the City of Lathrop’s website at www.ci.lathrop.ca.us.

To contact Bulletin reporter Jason Campbell email [email protected] or call 209.249.3544.

Lathrop shopping for more stores, restaurants

The City of Lathrop is hoping that its location, its growth, and its demographics will make it an attractive target for the amenities that residents deserve.In an economic development update delivered to the Lathrop City Council on Monday, the City of Lathrop included the promotional materials that were handed out at the International Council of Shopping Centers convention last month in San Diego.According to those materials, Lathrop is the fastest growing city in the entire state with a population over 30,000 people and ranked...

The City of Lathrop is hoping that its location, its growth, and its demographics will make it an attractive target for the amenities that residents deserve.

In an economic development update delivered to the Lathrop City Council on Monday, the City of Lathrop included the promotional materials that were handed out at the International Council of Shopping Centers convention last month in San Diego.

According to those materials, Lathrop is the fastest growing city in the entire state with a population over 30,000 people and ranked second in single family housing unit growth and in total housing unit growth.

With 31,331 residents and an average household income of just over $97,000, Lathrop is hoping that the contacts made last month in San Diego will help attract businesses that can cater to the city’s growing population and unique demographics – exemplified by the pending arrival of a Sprout’s Farmers Market grocery store.

And the growth isn’t even close to being done.

With 16,860 homes already approved for River Islands and the Stanford Crossing master planned communities, Lathrop’s residential population is expected to explode in the coming years as those homes are constructed – drastically changing the makeup and the dynamics of what was previously known as a sleepy town.

Coupled with the city’s unique location along California’s main arterial interstate highway and its close proximity to the turnoff for the San Francisco Bay Area – and the fact that just under 1 million people live within a 30-minute drive from Lathrop – the city is hoping that the recent growth and planned future growth will help attract commercial opportunities while at the same time securing even more employment opportunities for residents.

Dubbed LathropSMART, the marketing campaign is part of the city’s ongoing effort to attract commercial and industrial development to help augment the city’s burgeoning residential sector. A page for LathropSMART on the city’s website lists the 15,010 homes that are coming to River Islands and the 1,850 homes that are coming to Stanford Crossing as part of the development and opportunity sites for prospective companies looking to potentially become part of the Lathrop community.

Through August of this year Lathrop saw 561 new homes sold in River Islands and Stanford Crossing – 397 in River Islands, 164 in Stanford Crossing – and the city has issued a total of 886 new housing permits through the first nine of months of this year. At the current rate, the city would nearly match 1,122 permits that were issued in 2021.

For additional information, or to obtain the economic development documents that were outlined in the presentation on Monday night, visit the City of Lathrop’s website at www.ci.lathrop.ca.us.

To contact Bulletin reporter Jason Campbell email [email protected] or call 209.249.35

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