Connecting Round Rock: Champions for Seniors – A Place At Home – North Austin

September 25, 2024October 5, 2024 Stephanie Tyler 480 Views 0 Comment

Describe your mission and the work focused on seniors and their caregivers.
Our larger mission is to put a smile on a senior’s face every day. Stacey Eisenberg is a passionate advocate for seniors in our community. She sits on the volunteer board for Adult Protective Services; she is a community educator for the Alzheimer’s Association – Capital of Texas chapter; she recently refreshed her published 100+ page resource guide for seniors in the North Austin area and has been around senior care since her mom brought her to her job at a nursing home at three years of age. We have an amazing team of caregivers ready to assist seniors, veterans, and adults with disabilities in their homes, wherever their homes may be.

What is your favorite part about the work your organization does?
Making an impact on the lives of the families we serve. When caring for an aging parent when you have a family of your own can be very stressful. We get to alleviate some of the stress by offering not only home care but also care coordination and management, as well as placement in senior housing when they can no longer age in place in their current home.

What is one challenge your organization faces?
We are experiencing the typical growing pains of a business that has been open for just about a year. Helping get the word out about what we are doing, how we can help families, and continuing to find amazing caregivers are part of our daily challenges.

How is your organization preparing for Fall/Winter?
We have several events coming up. The first will be in September when we team up with Will Williams of the Share The Will Foundation to get donated wheelchairs (and other durable medical goods, as we find them) to veterans in need. We’ll donate a couple of chairs to veterans going on an Honor Flight later this year.

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We will also be working on the Walk to End Alzheimer’s Disease in October and planning community educational events in the Round Rock, Jarrell, and Georgetown public libraries for the Alzheimer’s Association – Capital of Texas Chapter.

How can Round Rock (and the surrounding areas) support your organization?
We are very passionate about getting our ‘In Case of Emergency” refrigerator magnets onto the refrigerators of seniors’ homes.

Emergency service personnel are told to check the refrigerator when they enter a home to look for medical information and contacts and to see if they have DNR orders. If you know a vulnerable senior or veteran, please let us know, and we’ll work to get you one of our magnets for them.