By Nancy Webre, BS, MS Making the decision to hire an in home care agency to provide care for your loved one is an important decision and can, at the same time be very difficult. Home care is a broad range of professional/non-professional health care and support services provided in people’s homes. People who are recovering from an illness or accident, disabled, chronically or terminally ill, most often use these [ READ MORE ... ]

Evergreen In-Home Care Services, a Bend company that connects caregivers with seniors in Central Oregon, is not the same operation as when it started. Looking back to its opening almost 30 years ago, Nancy Webre, the CEO has a long list of ways in which the business and industry have changed. The needs of the elderly have shifted because they’re growing older now. Children of the elderly want more services [ READ MORE ... ]

When Nancy Webre was growing up, she maintained a close relationship with her grandparents. This relationship, according to Webre, first led her to consider not just aging issues, but the need for people to age with independence and dignity. “When I was in college, I started taking courses in gerontology,” she said. “I also did some volunteer work with seniors. The more I pursued this, the more my interest in [ READ MORE ... ]

By Nancy Webre, BS, MS The desire to remain living at home has created an emergence of a service industry, “in-home care”, to meet this increasing demand. A range of companionship, supervision and personal care services are provided by in-home care agencies in the comfort and convenience of a person’s home, making it possible for them to remain living at home rather than moving into a facility. Increasingly, people are [ READ MORE ... ]