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Given the choice, most of us want to stay in our homes. Sometimes, people need help to remain at home. That's where Always Best Care Senior Services comes in.

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How does In-home Senior Care in Excelsior, MN 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 Excelsior, MN, 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 Excelsior, MN 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 Excelsior,MN 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.

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Excelsior is Home to Minnesota’s Oldest Episcopal Church

Trinity Episcopal Church has a complicated and dramatic history.Places of worship are spaces that are often challenged by moments of turmoil. Trinity Episcopal Church is no exception. Though this congregation has a complicated and dramatic history, today it remains the oldest Episcopal church in Minnesota and the second oldest congregation in the Lake Minnetonka area.“The building of Trinity parish was much more complicated than the story of the church on the hill and was not a fairy tale as people would like to believe. ...

Trinity Episcopal Church has a complicated and dramatic history.

Places of worship are spaces that are often challenged by moments of turmoil. Trinity Episcopal Church is no exception. Though this congregation has a complicated and dramatic history, today it remains the oldest Episcopal church in Minnesota and the second oldest congregation in the Lake Minnetonka area.

“The building of Trinity parish was much more complicated than the story of the church on the hill and was not a fairy tale as people would like to believe. It entailed deceit, insubordination, and other acts which we normally associate as unbecoming religious people,” says Scott McGinnis, a local historian.

The story of the Trinity Episcopal chapel begins with the founding and settling of Minnetonka City, where a man named John Hamilton McKenzie built a log hotel. Two devout members of the Episcopal Church and the owners of the local sawmill, Charles A.F Morris and Charles S. Hargin, took the land, renamed the area Saint Albans and turned the hotel into the first Trinity chapel, which was given to Reverend Jacob Sterrill Chamberlain and Bishop Kemper.

“It was not until Trinity Sunday 1854, that [Chamberlain] held the first service,” McGinnis says.

After a fire destroyed the sawmill, the congregation decided the church needed to be moved into a more populated area, so in 1862-1863, Trinity Chapel was formed and consecrated in its current location in Excelsior.

The new chapel was built from local materials, like Shakopee lime, wood scraps, and sand and rocks from Lake Minnetonka, so the chapel is quite literally a piece of the land in the community.

“The wood scraps and sand were combined with the lime by Tallman W. (Stonewall) Moore, who formed the cement walls of Trinity Chapel,” McGinnis says. Visitors can still see these materials today.

The jumpform construction, which is a process of laying planks on top of a concrete mixture, is still standing to this day and provides a glimpse into the formation of the church. It managed to hold strong until the first renovation was done in 1886.

However, things began to take a negative turn when Chamberlain was accused of mismanagement, including inappropriately spending money and taking a salary from church fundraising. Chamberlain was driven out of the diocese and Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, Minnesota’s first bishop, took over.

“Trinity parish was simply a piece in a larger puzzle. Today it stands not only as a legacy of the pioneers who settled and created our little town of Excelsior but for the power struggle between bishop and clergy and their differing views on missions,” McGinnis says.

The Episcopal church as a whole focuses on Christianity as a movement that follows Jesus’ teachings by living compassionate lives filled with love for others, which they achieve through reconciliation and worship within the church.

The chapel was expanded several times in the 20th century, including a new hall, a kitchen, office and atrium.

The church focuses on outreach programs by offering small groups such as Bible studies, praying programs and garden groups. They also have a Trinity Care Team that makes soup and writes notes to be delivered to members in the community who are sick or injured. They also offer educational fellowships and workshops for youth and adults.

Restaurant roundup: Cooks | Bellecour opens, new Daniel del Prado restaurant and more

Restaurateur Daniel del Prado is opening an American bistro in Excelsior in the first half of June, ...

Restaurateur Daniel del Prado is opening an American bistro in Excelsior in the first half of June, the Star Tribune reports.

What to expect: The 90-seat restaurant's menu will have a slight seafood emphasis with specials like lobster rolls and oysters.

In other restaurant news…

A "modern Southern"-inspired restaurant and cocktail bar opened in Eagan last week. Southern Social serves comfort food and is first come-first serve for now.

Cooks | Bellecour, the merger of cooking school/culinary shop Cooks of Crocus Hill and Gavin Kaysen's Bellecour Bakery, opened its Edina location on Tuesday after a two-week delay.

French bakery La Boulangerie Marguerite, which has been in St. Paul for more than a century, will open a Northeast Minneapolis location later this summer, according to its social media.

Korean fried chicken restaurant Bb.q Chicken is opening in the former Bap and Chicken in St. Paul mid-June, the Pioneer Press reports.

Puralima Cantina, a fast-casual Mexican restaurant concept from the group behind Crisp & Green, is preparing to open in North Loop next month, according to the North Loop Neighborhood Association' news site.

Minnesotan John Buresh is among 'The Bachelorette' contestants

One of the men competing on "The Bachelorette" grew up in Excelsior and graduated from the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas.John Buresh, who now lives in New York, is among the 10 contestants still vying for Charity Lawson, a child and family therapist in Georgia, on the ABC-TV reality series. The 27-year-old is a data scientist and "the perfect combination of looks and intelligence," accordin...

One of the men competing on "The Bachelorette" grew up in Excelsior and graduated from the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas.

John Buresh, who now lives in New York, is among the 10 contestants still vying for Charity Lawson, a child and family therapist in Georgia, on the ABC-TV reality series. The 27-year-old is a data scientist and "the perfect combination of looks and intelligence," according to his cast bio. The show airs Mondays.

Introducing himself when the 20th season of the show debuted on June 26, Buresh gave Lawson a fortune cookie. "It's a little Chinese, a little American," he said. "I'm a little Chinese, a little American."

She read the fortune aloud, laughing: "'You will meet the man of your dreams tonight. His name is John.' "

"I'm just as shocked as you are," he said. "You picked a good one."

If he's not a match for Lawson, some fans hope Buresh might become the first Asian star of "The Bachelor." One host of the podcast "Game of Roses" — which treats the show as a competitive sport and has long advocated for more diversity among its stars — picked Buresh as her MVP of the first episode.

According to his Linkedin profile, Buresh works at an investment firm, which he does not name: "I direct the companywide Data Science strategy and partnerships with data vendors, and build regression models to analyze and predict the performance of healthcare stocks."

He graduated from St. Thomas in 2021 with a master's degree in business analytics and, before that, from the U's Carlson School of Management in 2017 with a bachelor's degree in business management.

A Carlson School publication notes that Buresh took an independent study course in Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island nation, where his mother grew up. He did a technology consulting internship there at PricewaterhouseCoopers Mauritius.

"My idea of Mauritius quickly changed as I figured out how close Mauritius is to the U.S. in terms of tech," Buresh said.

His cast bio also notes his love for the Harry Potter books, singer-songwriter Chelsea Cutler and a well-crafted negroni.

A few episodes in, Buresh shined during a group dodgeball date. After the game, Lawson told Buresh that she was surprised by how well he embraced it.

"Well, people don't know I played professional basketball for a year," Buresh said. (Some "Bachelorette" sleuthers believe that Buresh played ball while in Mauritius.) He asked Lawson if she grew up playing sports. (She did — cheerleading.) "So we've got the athletic genes going for us," he said, with a big smile.

They kissed, and later Lawson rewarded him with a coveted group date rose.

"With John, he really did show a different side of himself. And he did take the lead in initiating a little kiss," she told the camera. "So that definitely took me by surprise in the best way."

Two new restaurants are opening soon on Lake Minnetonka

Unstoppable restaurateur/chef Daniel del Prado is adding to his portfolio again this summer with Layline, coming to downtown Excelsior in the first half of June.The restaurant, an American bistro with a slight seafood emphasis, takes over a former auto repair shop at 301 Water St., on the edge of Excelsior's main street.This is the third Lake Minnetonka-area restaurant del Prado has in partnership with Aaron Switz and Mikael Asp of Innerbloom Hospi...

Unstoppable restaurateur/chef Daniel del Prado is adding to his portfolio again this summer with Layline, coming to downtown Excelsior in the first half of June.

The restaurant, an American bistro with a slight seafood emphasis, takes over a former auto repair shop at 301 Water St., on the edge of Excelsior's main street.

This is the third Lake Minnetonka-area restaurant del Prado has in partnership with Aaron Switz and Mikael Asp of Innerbloom Hospitality; the first two are Josefina and Macanda in Wayzata.

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Cozier than those Wayzata restaurants, Layline will seat 90 people, many of them on a four-season patio and an outdoor patio. Inside will be a "contemporary and eclectic" look, according to a spokesperson for the hospitality group.

Del Prado has brought on Aaron Slavicek as head chef. Slavicek was a longtime chef at Bar La Grassa (where he worked with del Prado), and had prior stints at Cafe Maude, La Belle Vie and Solera. He also spent time on the East Coast, which served as the inspiration for Layline's coastal fare. Specialties will include lobster rolls, oysters and burgers, plus martinis.

This is one of two openings this summer for the restaurant group.

This Memorial Day weekend, Lost Bay will debut in Tonka Bay, at what used to be Tequila Butcher. The outdoor bar and restaurant seats 140 (with 10 boat slips).

Lost Bay will specialize in tiki-style drinks and frozen cocktails from beverage director Brian Kunz (who is also overseeing the drinks at Layline). Yes, at least one drink will be served in a pineapple. Food will be simple and fast casual — think nachos. Look for a DJ and live band lineup soon.

Lost Bay kicks off the season May 26, and will be open daily through Labor Day, at 135 Lakeview Av., Tonka Bay.

While del Prado is not involved in Lost Bay, he does have another restaurant slated to open later in the summer: a still-unnamed Argentinean steakhouse taking over the former Bachelor Farmer space in Minneapolis' North Loop, for which he partnered with Ryan Burnet.

And that's not all for downtown Excelsior, either. The tropical-themed Montego Blu recently opened in the former Suburban, at 304 Water St., just around the corner from the new Layline.

Tuesday Morning reveals planned store closures in Minnesota

Tuesday Morning Corp. has revealed plans to close more than half its stores across the country — including all three of its remaining Minnesota locations — as the Dallas-based off-price retailer seeks financial and operational reorganization as to shore up outstanding liabilities, obtain capital and evolve into a nimbler retailer.Tuesday Morning anno...

Tuesday Morning Corp. has revealed plans to close more than half its stores across the country — including all three of its remaining Minnesota locations — as the Dallas-based off-price retailer seeks financial and operational reorganization as to shore up outstanding liabilities, obtain capital and evolve into a nimbler retailer.

Tuesday Morning announced Tuesday morning that it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division.

As part of the restructuring process, the retailer spelled out intentions to close stores in low-traffic regions as it looks to optimize its footprint and focus on core and heritage markets.

The retailer is closing two Twin Cities stores and another Minnesota store beyond the metro area:

The retailer didn't indicate a specific closing date for the stores, but when they shutter, Tuesday Morning will no longer operate in Minnesota. Its website still lists a store within Waterford Park Plaza in Plymouth that's already closed.

Nationwide, the company (OTC: TUEM) currently operates 487 stores in 40 states. A full list of all closures can be found in this filing.

Store liquidator Gordon Brothers has been tapped to lead the closings.

Beyond store closures, Tuesday Morning is looking to reduce costs and create efficiencies across its distribution channels through its focus on its remaining stores. That streamlining is expected to include a pivot to a third-party logistics model and transition to a more cost-effective inventory acquisition strategy.

“After considering how best to address Tuesday Morning’s exceedingly burdensome debt, we have determined that the best path to reorganizing and transforming the Company begins with a Chapter 11 filing. Fortunately, we have the support of a committed capital provider in Invictus and a clear vision for transforming into a focused retailer that serves its core, heritage markets in a profitable manner," said Chief Executive Andrew Berger in a prepared statement Tuesday.

"We look forward to taking steps that enable us to emerge as a stronger retailer that draws on a legacy of offering a unique off-price value proposition to our loyal customer base. We appreciate all the support of our employees, customers, creditors and other partners as we seek to sustain commercial operations with minimal disruptions,” Berger continued.

Invictus Global Management, which is headquartered in Austin, Texas, has committed to provide $51.5 million of debtor-in-possession financing to support ongoing operations at Tuesday Morning during the proceedings.

Tuesday Morning has selected Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr as legal advisor and Minneapolis-based Piper Sandler as financial advisor. Vinson & Elkins is advising Tuesday Morning's special committee.

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