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How does In-home Senior Care in Welch, 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 Welch, 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 Welch, 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 Welch,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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Aiden Welch bypasses college baseball, commits to play hockey for SCSU

Aiden Welch's goal had been to play college baseball. As a 6-foot-2 right-handed pitcher, he had fallen in love with the sport at a young age and would spend most of the year either working out for baseball or playing the game.Welch would play and work out with his hockey teams during the winter.But the last two summers, his father, Keith, got him to work with skating coach Katie McDonough at Cutting Edge Performance. He went from having six goals and 19 points points in 21 varsity games for White Bear Lake High School as a sop...

Aiden Welch's goal had been to play college baseball. As a 6-foot-2 right-handed pitcher, he had fallen in love with the sport at a young age and would spend most of the year either working out for baseball or playing the game.

Welch would play and work out with his hockey teams during the winter.

But the last two summers, his father, Keith, got him to work with skating coach Katie McDonough at Cutting Edge Performance. He went from having six goals and 19 points points in 21 varsity games for White Bear Lake High School as a sophomore to 15 goals and 30 points in 27 games as a junior and then 21 goals and 51 points in 25 games as a senior.

The 200-pound forward got off to a hot start as a senior with four goals and nine points in his first three games. Welch went from not having any junior or college teams interested to NAHL teams making offers and NCAA Division I hockey teams showing interest.

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One of the first colleges on the scene was St. Cloud State. Welch would eventually get taken by the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders in the USHL Draft. After Cedar Rapids' camp, the Huskies turned up the recruiting heat and Welch verbally committed to play for the Huskies on July 25.

Welch was also being recruited by Minnesota State University-Mankato and Bemidji State. There were a number of factors that helped him pick SCSU.

"I live in Forest Lake ... and from where I live, the rink is only an hour and 10 minutes away and I'm really close to my family and my family is really a big thing to me," said Welch, who went on a recruiting visit the first weekend of December. "They've been super supportive throughout my career, love watching me play, love watching me succeed. My whole family comes to my games, so it was huge thing to have them close and be able to come watch me in college because they've done a lot to get me where I am.

"The program itself, the history of it, the facilities they have, the coaching staff ... I think I've built the best relationship that I possibly could have with the coaching staff. They've done a phenomenal job getting to know me."

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Assistant coach R.J. Enga spent the most time among the SCSU staff watching and talking with Welch. Enga had gotten a heads up about Welch from White Bear Lake then assistant coach Chris Anderson, who played defense for the Huskies from 2004-08.

Anderson, who was named White Bear Lake's new head coach in April, said that he began talking with Enga about Welch at last year's SCSU alumni golf event. The Huskies had a strong interest in Nolan Roed at the time and he would commit to the Huskies in September.

"I golfed with R.J. Enga at the alumni golf tournament and, at that time, I was talking about Nolan, but I was also talking about Aiden and a couple other kids," Anderson said. "Athletically, (Welch) is DI caliber.

"Through the fall elite league, they probably watched him a few times. Then R.J. was at quite a few of our games throughout the season last winter," Anderson said. "The Huskies were there the longest (recruiting) and watched him the most."

What was it about Welch that inspired Anderson to sing his praises?

"Athletically, he's a man already from a high school standpoint," Anderson said. "He's a big, strong kid who skates very well. He's solid, hard to knock off the puck. He can handle a puck well, but I think one of his biggest assets is he can shoot the heck out of the puck.

"He makes great plays, uses his size, can protect the puck, handles it and can bury it ... His size and his frame and athletic ability are his greatest assets."

If you believe Welch, the skating part of his game came a long ways in his last two seasons of high school.

"I don't know how it happened, but before my junior year, my dad got me a skating coach," Welch said of McDonough. "I probably did a month, a month-and-a-half of that before my junior year and made big strides.

"I wasn't the strongest skater — and I'm still not. But junior year helped me a lot and I had a decent year and I saw some flashes that I might have a future in hockey. But I was still pretty big into baseball."

How big was Welch into baseball? He would train 3-4 hours a day for baseball and played for the Minnesota Blizzard, a select team, during the summers.

"I just fell in love with the game," he said of baseball, where he was receiving recruiting interest from NCAA Division II schools. "My dad is from Boston and we would watch baseball games at night when the Red Sox used to be a good team. I loved watching it, loved training for it and I go to the cages to hit and play catch with my dad and we formed a great bond."

Keith played safety for the Northeastern University football team.

Welch's love of hockey comes from his older brother, Austin, a former White Bear Lake forward.

"I grew up watching my brother and I could probably barely walk when I first put on hockey skates," he said. "My brother was always was super big into hockey and I loved watching him and I really learned from him a lot. Even if I was just messing around, I would still watch and pick up on little things and I've always been around hockey because of him."

As a freshman in high school, Welch played in 17 games, but did not pick up a point. But he's improved each year and his outgoing personality made him a popular teammate at White Bear Lake.

"He's a teddy bear, a fun guy to be around," Anderson said. "He comes from a great family. He jokes around, he kids, a great locker room guy.

"His personality is infectious. People want to talk to him, want to be around him. He can turn it on and off, too. Before a game or a practice, he's determined, ready to compete. In the locker room after a game or a practice, he's everybody's best friend. He's a super great guy to be around."

Welch is now preparing for his first season of junior hockey with the RoughRiders where he could play against Roed, his former linemate, early in the season. Roed plans to begin the season playing for the Tri-City Storm in the USHL before playing his senior season with White Bear Lake.

And Welch is looking forward to working on his hockey skills full time for the first time in his career. He knows what his strengths are and some things he will need to work on.

"I would say I'm a pretty physical player, but I don't use my body as much as I should with how big I am," he said. "I'm more of a power forward. I like to get in the corners and I like to work in the corners. I probably don't shoot as much as I should either.

"I feel like I have pretty good vision for how big I am. I love passing and making great plays and getting that pretty assist."

Duluth maker's wood-burning business is fire

DULUTH — Erin Welch pinches the fat cork gripper of her soldering iron. Smoke rises in tight curls as she lightly guides her instrument in vertical lines, burning the northern lights into the cream-colored meat of a bark-edge wood board.Her tool is like a hot pencil and the process is similar to tattooing, said Welch. “Once it’s burned in, it’s burned in.”Welch operates North Country Craft , her Duluth-based business sp...

DULUTH — Erin Welch pinches the fat cork gripper of her soldering iron. Smoke rises in tight curls as she lightly guides her instrument in vertical lines, burning the northern lights into the cream-colored meat of a bark-edge wood board.

Her tool is like a hot pencil and the process is similar to tattooing, said Welch. “Once it’s burned in, it’s burned in.”

Welch operates North Country Craft , her Duluth-based business specializing in custom wood-burned works.

Her goods are inspired by Northland scenes, and her top sellers — sold at Frost River Trading Co. in Duluth, Jay Cooke State Park in Carlton, and stores in Grand Marais and Juneau, Alaska — are dedicated to a Midwestern staple: cribbage.

Welch's travel cribbage boards boast wood-burned agate and aurora borealis designs.

She constructs each by hand, sandwiching them in Pendleton wool, which she sews in her Duluth apartment. Many are stained in layers of her hand-painted watercolors.

Welch sold more than 2,500 boards last year, and her customers reported taking theirs to India, Australia and along the Appalachian Trail.

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Cribbage boards are a blank canvas and a functional piece of art, she said. “It’s simple, but it brings people together," she said.

Cribbage is a rite of passage, said Eric Friberg, of St. Paul. Friberg is a repeat customer of Welch’s travel boards and watercolor works.

It’s one thing to make cribbage for your friends — it’s another to mass produce them and maintain this high-quality art, he said.

Welch grew up playing cribbage with her grandparents, who live five minutes from the University of Minnesota Duluth. It became routine for her to play during visits and breaks from class.

She “came to love it” after all the time spent playing it with her grandfather, Dave Welch, a retired Duluth firefighter.

The seed of her business started when she drilled holes in an unused cutting board to make herself a cribbage board. Soon after, she dusted off an old soldering iron from high school.

To round them out, she used leather scraps from a Minnesota surplus supplier and leftover wool from a Duluth outfitter, sewing and completing each by hand.

It “snowballed,” Welch launched her Etsy shop and she got a cribbage board tattoo the day she quit her desk job to pursue her business full-time.

She’s come so far from the first few boards to now wisely making bulk batches of her unique designs — all by herself, said friend and former colleague Adam Fleischhacker.

Today, Welch bulk-buys Tandy Leather, Walnut Hollow bark edges and Pendleton wool.

Her large laser cutter and wood-cutting tools are stationed at her parents’ Saginaw home, where she bulk-cuts, lasers and drills her pieces before driving them back to Duluth for staining, burning, painting and assembling.

Freehand drawing with the soldering iron is a meditative process that’s slower than normal writing. Welch doesn’t know how hot it gets, but she has been burned in the past, and “you definitely don’t want to touch it,” she said.

The tool comes with different tips for shading or outlining, and you have to be methodical, paying attention to the shading and values of each stroke, she said.

Welch also designs and cuts earrings, keychains, bookmarks and larger boards featuring engraved paddles, anchors, fish hooks and canoes. This month, she unveils her latest item: a set of hand-sized circle boards with Lake Superior in the center.

But they won’t replace the portable cribbage boards. “They’re the bread and butter of my business,” she said.

State shuts down St. Paul nonprofit Welch Charities; donation misuse alleged

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has shut down a St. Paul nonprofit that allegedly misspent thousands of dollars in donations intended to fund school supplies for children in need.Under an enforcement action filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court, Welch Charities must dissolve and its president, Arturo Eguia, is banned from operating a charity, having access to charitable assets or soliciting donations in Minnesota.Eguia, 46, of St. Paul, started the all-volunteer nonprofit in 2013 to provide school supplies to...

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has shut down a St. Paul nonprofit that allegedly misspent thousands of dollars in donations intended to fund school supplies for children in need.

Under an enforcement action filed Wednesday in Ramsey County District Court, Welch Charities must dissolve and its president, Arturo Eguia, is banned from operating a charity, having access to charitable assets or soliciting donations in Minnesota.

Eguia, 46, of St. Paul, started the all-volunteer nonprofit in 2013 to provide school supplies to low-income children. It raised money through Indian Bike Week, an annual motorcycle ride and festival.

Welch Charities must turn over its assets to another nonprofit before dissolving. In an interview Thursday, Eguia said he is giving the money to a Native American church in South Dakota.

Eguia denied misspending the charity's funds and said he was unable to access documentation from years ago to prove the expenses were for charitable costs.

"It wasn't used for any personal funds," he said.

Eguia said he was in the process of dissolving the nonprofit on his own before the state took action.

His attorney, Ferdinand Peters, said the state couldn't prove the allegations because the investigation by Ellison's office was incomplete. As part of the settlement, Eguia and Welch Charities neither admit nor deny the allegations.

Peters said Eguia "had done maybe some sloppy bookkeeping, but he didn't do anything wrong that was illegal."

The Attorney General's Office, he said, wants "to show an example to other charities, but sometimes they get it wrong and they smear a charity through the mud that just didn't have the money to continue to fight them to actually go to a trial."

A spokesperson for the Attorney General's Office said the investigation took 15 months and "the facts ... are beyond sufficient to establish the violations that Mr. Eguia himself acknowledged by signing the settlement."

The Attorney General's Office, which regulates nonprofits in the state, began investigating Welch Charities in 2021 after it failed to file required documents. The state said the charity wasn't properly managed, followed no policies or procedures and had a board that never met or conducted oversight.

According to the state, registration fees from the annual motorcycle ride, merchandise sales and donations amounted to more than $142,000 from 2017 to 2021. Of that sum, $12,200 was spent on charitable items, according to the court document. An additional nearly $37,000 allegedly was used to pay Eguia's personal expenses, including more than $5,900 in cash withdrawals, $1,434 on hotels, $878 on restaurants and bars, and $253 on a pest control company.

Eguia "took advantage of Minnesotans' and motorcycle riders' trust and generosity," Ellison said in a statement. "Instead of using donations well-intentioned people made to Welch Charities to help low-income school children, Eguia instead used the money intended for children to enrich himself, travel on the charity's dime and prop up his for-profit business."

Eguia said all expenses were incurred as the cost of running the charity. For instance, he said, he hired the pest control company to rid his yard of mosquitoes before an outdoor fundraiser he hosted. He said he also has photos and videos of the annual school supply distributions.

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