Home Care: How to Stay in Your Home as You Age with Kathy Miller and Age Better Resources

Age Better Resources with Kathy Miller, founder and owner of Gentle Shepherd Home Care, Colorado Springs. www.gentleshepherdhomecare.com.

Understanding home care agency basics is essential for implementing your best solution. Home care for seniors can allow aging adults with increasing needs to stay safely at home, wherever that is. It is crucial to find the right provider when inviting someone to care for an older senior in the home.

In this conversation we learn from the founder and owner of a Gentle Shepherd Home Care, an award-winning independent agency in Colorado Springs. Kathy founded Gentle Shepherd after experiencing challenges finding quality care for family members. She discusses the services they provide and how people pay. She describes essential aspects of a high quality home care agency. She details important hiring and training guidelines all agencies should follow. Kathy shares her company’s strong commitment to taking care of each client as if they are family.

To learn more about non-medical home care, see our article Home Care for Seniors: 14 Essentials Before Making that Call.

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Kathy’s mission is to use the Age Better Resources platform to share the knowledge she acquired over many years to help seniors understand how they can optimize their later years. Her hope is that the content on this site, the associated services or products available, and the experts she will share, will help you or your loved ones create a plan to live as many good days and years as possible. If immediate or more personalized support is needed, personal consultations are available.

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