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At this point in life, it seems inescapable that we all know someone effected by dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. When diagnosed early, the beginning stages may not be as difficult, but when the mid to advanced stages take place, the ability to care for your loved one can be extremely challenging.
What are your options? It’s not easy to put a loved one in a memory care facility or nursing home. There are feelings of guilt, constant worry about their safety and health, and financial strain.
We want our loved ones to be cared for with love and we want to have the ability to manage that care with a watchful eye, but is that possible in a memory care facility or nursing home?
There are other options. Private duty homecare allows your loved one to stay in their comfortable, home environment and dedicated staff visits to help with things like bathing, meal prepping, feeding, light housekeeping, light grocery shopping, medication management and companionship.
As a way to offer a caring touch, physically and mentally, and to help seniors, TouchStone Homecare was born as a boutique agency to provide certified, compassionate caregivers that treat each senior client with dignity.
TouchStone Homecare
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
Nicole Tegeler MS, CSCS (founder/owner)
A personal family experience as well as a lifelong career in healthcare has instilled a deep passion to help other families with aging loved ones. The dilemma to move my parents into an assisted living facility and soon my dear mother into an Alzheimer’s unit was imminent. The physical, emotional, and medical demands for my father to care for my mother were far too great to manage alone. My mother absolutely refused to move into an assisted living facility much less an Alzheimer’s unit. So, the decision was made to move my parents from Kansas City Missouri to my home in Louisville Kentucky to care for my parents.
The kindness, care and dignity the home care specialists provided my parents over five years was nothing more than amazing. This gave me piece of mind to continue my career and the freedom to raise our two young boys while simultaneously knowing my parent’s needs were being met. This experience gave us the desire to enhance seniors lives and to help them remain at home writing their success story of aging with dignity, peace, and joy. TouchStone is a locally owned company in Tampa, developed with a passion to be your trusted in-home care agency.
Our primary goal is to be a steadfast guardian of the client’s dignity, safety and well-being while providing compassionate in-home care.
WHAT IS PRIVATE DUTY HOME CARE?
Private duty home care is personalized care that allows a person with special needs to stay in their home. Private duty home care may be for people who are getting older, are chronically ill, recovering from surgery, or disabled. When you choose TouchStone as your home care provider, we begin by reviewing your loved one’s needs. We will meet with all involved family members to get a complete picture of your loved one’s in-home care needs. As part of this process, we match your loved one’s needs to a select group of compassionate home care specialists. You will have the opportunity to be part of the caregiver selection process. We encourage all our home care specialists to establish rewarding one-on-one relationships with their seniors and families.
Our TouchStone home care specialist are trained to work with your family to implement a personalized plan of care to suit your needs. You can select those services most needed and desired by your loved one. Our goal is to provide compassionate care, always respecting the dignity of each person.
Services range from a 15-minute check-up to round the clock care. Though live-in services are available, most clients opt for 4–12-hour shifts. Touchstone understands that it’s about building the right team and caregivers for that individual client.
What separates Touchstone is our personal focus on wellness, including lectures and exercise classes, in the local senior communities throughout Hillsborough County. We focus on a holistic approach for our client and their family.
To find out more, please visit www.touchstonehomecarefl.com, call 813-426-7848 or email TouchStoneHomeCare@gmail.com.