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Eldercare provides home care, friendship
Eldercare Home Care Group, Inc., of-
fers elderly or disabled people a wide va-
rietyof personalized services.
"Our goal," said David A. Hooper,
president, "is to provide the care our
clients need so they can continue to live
in their own homes with more comfort-
and less expense than in a nursing
home."
He said that typical services provided
by Eldercare include bathing and dress-
ing patients, shampooing, shaving,
massaging, changing beds, cooking,
housework, laundry, shopping, driving
and many other chores including caring
; for pets and plants.
"We offer our clients individualized
care," Hooper said. "Some need our ser-
vices for only a few hours a week, others
- require an aide to be present around the
clock. We are totally flexible regarding
hours and can often change our sched-
ules very quickly."
Eldercare patients vary widely in their
needs. Some are totally homebound and
unable to care for their own bodily func-
tions. Others can take care of them-
selves, but need help with some house-
hold chores and also require assistance
when they leave home.
Hooper said that many clients need
only occasional care, especially when
their own families must be away or need
a respite.
He added, "Many home care agencies
won't provide the kinds of help that El-
dercare does. For example, if someone
needs to go to a doctor, but requires a
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"Our goal is to provide the care our clients
need so they can continue to live in their
own homes with more comfort and less
expense than in a nursing home."
David A. Hooper
Eldercare president
driver-companion, we take care of them.
Or if they want to go to church or to visit
a friend our aides provide the service.
"Often what our clients need most is
companionship and the reassurance that
if they need help, we are present. We se-
lect our workers for their nursing or
home care skills, but just as important is
how much they enjoy being with and
helping older people. We teach advanced
skills, but personality is more impor-
tant."
Hooper noted that many Eldercare
aides are vigorous seniors themselves.
He added, "I suspect that a lot of our
workers, even if they weren't getting
paid, would do this same kind of work
somewhere on a volunteer basis."
Eldercare, in fact, began as a volun-
teer service before it became a business.
Julie Hooper, David's mother, took nurs-
ing training in her native Columbia, but
her father wouldn't allow her to work for
pay.
After moving to the United States, Mrs.
Hooper wanted to use her training and
took care of many sick and elderly people
on Grosse Ile, where she and her husband
live. As more and more people asked for
her help, she decided to recruit and train
other people to care for the elderly in the
gentle and thorough way she does.
She once asked a prospective aide how
long it would take to give a patient a bed
bath. When the aide replied, "15 min-
utes," Mrs. Hooper responded by outlin-
ing her technique that combines bathing,
gentle exercise and massage for as long
as two hours — all accompanied by the
cheerful conversation that many elderly
people crave.
Mrs. Hooper said, "Eldercare aides
are like mothers taking care of their own
children, except that the age roles are
reversed."
All Eldercare aides are bonded and in-
sured.
The phone number for Eldercare's
Birmingham office is 646-8880. The
Grosse Ile headquarters can be reached
by dialing 1-800-HOME-HELP. The firm
presently provides service in Oakland
and Monroe counties and the southern
and western part of Wayne County.
ELDERCARE
HOME CARE GROUP, INC.
400 W. MAPLE, SUITE 200
BIRMINGHAM, MICHIGAN 48009
(313) 646-8880
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