We are pleased to announce our newest advertiser
Home Care Assistance
in the Northern Arizona SPOTLIGHT Senior Services
& Living Options Guide
Carol White
CEO, Owner
928-771-0105
377 N. Montezuma St. Suite 110
Prescott, AZ
86301
Changing the Way the World Ages
Home
Care Assistance is the leading provider of home care for seniors across the
United States, Canada and Australia. Our mission is to change the way the world
ages. We provide older adults with quality care that enables them to live
happier, healthier lives at home. Our services are distinguished by the caliber
of our caregivers, the responsiveness of our staff and our expertise in Live-In
care. We embrace a positive, balanced approach to aging centered on the
evolving needs of older adults.
Home Care Assistance of
Prescott is celebrating its first anniversary of providing service to the
seniors of Prescott, Sedona and surrounding communities. The office is located
at 377 N. Montezuma St., Ste. 110, in Prescott, Arizona.
“I am excited to share the unique
and innovative capabilities offered by Home Care Assistance as a resource for
the communities in the greater Prescott area,” said Carol White, CEO and owner
of Home Care Assistance of Northern Arizona. “At Home Care Assistance, our
mission is to change the way the world ages through innovative and unique
offerings such as our proprietary Balanced Care MethodTM
based on the scientifically studied lifestyles of the longest living people on earth
and our Cognitive Therapeutics MethodTM, an activities-based
program designed to delay the onset or slow the progression of cognitive
decline.”
In addition, Home Care Assistance
hires only the most qualified and competent individuals as caregivers. Applicants
undergo thorough screening including background checks, reference checks and
work authorization. A proprietary Caregiver Personality Screening test assesses
each applicant’s traits, such as kindness, honesty and conscientiousness, and
matches caregivers with the needs and preferences of each individual client. Caregivers are fully trained, bonded and
insured and we treat every client as though he or she were a part of our own
family. Your satisfaction is 100%
guaranteed.
Nine out of ten seniors prefer to
age in the comfort of their own home, yet thousands of seniors still move to
facilities every year. A professionally trained and compassionate caregiver can
provide the support to help each senior age safely and independently for as
long as possible where they prefer……at home. Home Care Assistance caregivers provide
services to help seniors live well at home including hourly and live-in care
for activities of daily living such as meal preparation, transportation,
walking/transferring assistance, medication reminders, companionship as well as
more advanced services.
To learn more about Home Care
Assistance’s unique offering or to schedule a free in-home assessment, please
visit, www.HomeCareAssistancePrescott.com
or call 928-771-0105 today. Home Care Assistance of Northern Arizona is located
at 377 N. Montezuma St., Ste 110 in Prescott, AZ 86301.
Carol White – CEO
Carol earned her B.A. at the University of New Hampshire and
began her career in education as a teacher. After 5 years, she left teaching to
work for the next 35 years as a sales and marketing professional in the high
tech industry. During that time, she went on to earn a Masters in Business
Administration and advanced certification as a Project Management Professional.
In 2011, Carol and her husband moved from Massachusetts to
Prescott, Arizona, but continued to work in their jobs as telecommuters. Soon
thereafter they became involved in the community as volunteers with the Yavapai
County Search & Rescue Team as part of the Search Dog Unit, training their
dogs to be ready for a “call out” from the sheriff’s office to find a lost or
missing person. About 50% of the “search missions” involve a senior citizen,
who, often times, has dementia.
Carol left Hewlett-Packard in 2015 to open Home Care Assistance
in her beloved Prescott, Arizona. She is excited to offer innovative in-home
care to seniors in Prescott and Yavapai County. Her passion is derived from her
own life experience. After her father passed away in 2010, her mother lived
with her and her husband. It was clear that something was very wrong, and she
was later diagnosed with vascular dementia. Carol was able to keep her mother
at home with her for two years until she passed away in 2012.
From that experience she learned the stress of being a
caregiver, the tragedy of dementia, and the importance of finding trained and
skilled caregivers who are competent and compassionate. Her business and
teaching experience, her personal history, and her passion for contributing to
her community in a positive way form the foundation of the Home Care Assistance
of Prescott business, for which Carol is the CEO and owner.
Chris Knack – Director of Community Relations
We are happy to announce that Chris Knack has joined Home Care
Assistance of Northern Arizona as Director of Community Relations and “subject
matter expert” in the Cognitive Therapeutics Method approach to care. Chris
received his Baccalaureate degree in Psychology from the University of Memphis,
and elected to continue his education there. He received his first Master of
Science in Community Agency Counseling, and a second Master’s in School
Counseling. Chris has spent time working in both inpatient and outpatient
settings as well as residential and group homes as a therapist for children,
adults, and seniors. As a manager, Chris has run multiple outpatient sites, and
was the CEO for a Private Psychiatric Facility in Prescott Valley, Arizona.
Chris has nearly twenty years experience as a Cognitive Behavioral Therapist.
In addition to his work with Home Care Assistance Chris
dedicates his spare time to the community giving back to both children and
adults. He is a coach with the Prescott Valley Junior Bowler’s Association,
works with law enforcement on the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board, and
volunteers with the Yavapai County Coordinated Community Resource Team. Chris
enjoys time with his family, loves sports, the outdoors, and doing things he
loves with those he loves. We are delighted to have someone with Chris’
passion, depth and breadth of experience on the HCA Prescott team.
April Knack – Director of Human Resources and
Training
We are happy to announce that April Knack has expanded her role
at Home Care Assistance of Northern Arizona to Director of Human Resources and
Business Development, adding a new focus on building new business pipeline via
acquisition targets and referral sources. April began her career in sales and
training in a Fortune 500 consumer products company, progressing quickly into
management roles in training and marketing where she coached and trained both
management and staff. Subsequently she shifted her career to behavioral
health where she became Training and Compliance Administrator for northern
Arizona’s largest behavioral health provider forming a bridge between Human
Resources, Training, Compliance, and Clinical departments from both intra-agency
and extra-agency perspectives. Her focus at Home Care Assistance is to
hire, train and manage the highest quality care givers in the industry, manage
cross functional integration across the staff and expand revenue through
growing new clients and referral sources.
In addition to her work at Home Care Assistance, April is the
loving mother of two and enjoys travel and experiencing the world. Both
children are active in school and extracurricular activities, so you can often
find April enjoying volleyball and football games, band performances and track
and field activities at both high school and middle school levels. We are
delighted to have someone with April’s energy, competence and commitment as
part of the Home Care Assistance Prescott team.
Heather Kennedy – Client Care Associate
Home Care Assistance of Northern Arizona is happy to announce
that Heather Kennedy has accepted a new role as Client Care Associate. Heather
is moving from her previous role as the lead caregiver on our in-home staff to
a new position supporting April Knack, Director of HR and Business Development.
Her focus will be managing the intake calls, interviewing, organizing and
scheduling care caregivers, facilitating AP/AR workflow and other tasks
essential to running the office. We are delighted to have someone with
Heather’s energy and commitment, as well as her essential “hands on experience”
as part of the Home Care Assistance Prescott team, and always appreciate her
constant “can-do” attitude.
Heather is a 2010 graduate of Bradshaw Mountain High School and
subsequently attended Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction, CO where she
studied Sociology and Business. Heather’s professional career includes various
positions in the care giving industry in group homes and companies focused on
adults and children at risk and often with cognitive or developmental
disabilities including Alzheimer’s, autism, cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
Over several years and in many ways, Heather has demonstrated a
dedicated, passionate focus on caring for others. Her efforts include volunteerism
at Good Samaritan’s Alzheimer’s unit, Homeward Bound in Grand Valley, CO and
Midnight Mission homeless shelter and various day care and half-way houses on
Skid Row in Los Angeles, CA. In addition, Heather has committed herself to
elder and hospice care for many relatives including aunts, uncles, grandparents
and great grandparents ill with cancer and Alzheimer’s disease. Consistent with
her passion to give to others, she spent two years coaching within the Yavapai
Recreation Soccer League. In so many ways, Heather personifies the mission and
spirit of the Home Care Assistance of Northern Arizona organization……. and as
the new Client Care Associate is our “diamond in the rough”.
In 2007, the company providing vending machines at Winslow Campus of Care, a long-term care facility in Arizona, imposed a five-cent increase on all items. This was steep for the fixed-income seniors who relied on the machines for special treats. In response, the Resident Council elected to boycott the machine. In 2008, the Council received an anonymous $400 check and a letter directing residents to start their own store. The Winslow Campus of Care Trading Post was born.
