Home care in Boerne often starts when a family realizes a parent is doing a little less each month. Fewer walks on the Hill Country Mile, fewer trips to Main Street, more meals skipped. Or a hospital stay ends and nobody can be home all day. Assisting Hands Home Care Northeast San Antonio sends trained, background-checked caregivers into Boerne homes for a few hours, overnight or around the clock.
Our office is in Bulverde, at 32685 US Hwy 281 N, Suite 180. Boerne is about 30 minutes away, straight across Highway 46. Our care is non-medical: bathing, meals, getting around safely, errands and company. Nancy Wilch, MSN, RN, our co-owner, plans your loved one’s care, and care can often start within a day or two.
Care after a hospital or rehab stay in Boerne
The first days home are often the hardest. Boerne families are often coming home from Methodist Hospital Landmark near the interstate on the northwest side, from Methodist Hospital in the Medical Center, or after a short rehab stay at Cibolo Creek Health and Rehabilitation Center on River Road, across from the Kendall County Fairgrounds.
For a fall or a sudden change close to home, Methodist ER Boerne on Menger Springs is open around the clock.
A caregiver can be there when your loved one walks in the door, with meals, bathing, a steady arm on the way to the bathroom and rides to follow-up visits. Our caregivers work alongside the home health nurse or therapist the doctor orders. They do not replace them. If you can, call us before discharge day, and see how our hospital to home care for Boerne families works.
Methodist Hospital is familiar ground for Nancy. She spent more than 30 years there, caring for stroke and brain injury patients in the Neuro ICU, and she taught nursing students their hospital clinicals.
Home care across Boerne, from Main Street to the City Lake
Boerne is the Kendall County seat, a Hill Country town of about 18,000 people that German Free Thinkers settled in 1849. We care for families all over it: near City Hall and the Patrick Heath Public Library on North Main Street, in the older streets around the Main Plaza, out River Road toward the fairgrounds, and in the newer neighborhoods up toward Boerne City Lake Park.
We plan around how Boerne lives. Downtown parking and weekend crowds shape when a caregiver arrives for a Saturday shift. If your home sits out on a few acres or behind a gate, the best way in and any gate code go on the care plan. If the bedroom is upstairs, we look at the stairs together at the first visit. Parents who still love their routines can keep them: a caregiver can go along to the library, a slow stretch of the Hill Country Mile, or the trails at the Cibolo Center for Conservation.
What home care visits in Boerne cover
Many Boerne families start with a few hours a week and add time as trust builds. A visit can include:
- Bathing, dressing and toileting through personal care at home for Boerne seniors
- Home-cooked meals and help with groceries and light housework, laundry and dishes
- Errands, rides to appointments and medication reminders
- Conversation, cards and companionship for Boerne parents living alone
When memory loss is part of the picture, our dementia care at home in Boerne keeps each day calm and familiar. If you are the family caregiver and need a breather, short breaks with respite care give you real time off. When someone should not be alone at all, 24-hour care, shift by shift keeps someone in the house day and night. When a hospice team is involved, we add hands for personal care and company.
Getting started in 3 steps
- Call us at (210) 405-4059. Tell us about your loved one and what has gotten harder at home. We will answer your questions and set up a time to visit.
- A free in-home visit with Nancy, our RN owner. Nancy comes to your Boerne home, gets to know your loved one and listens to what your family needs. Then she writes a care plan with you.
- Care can often start within a day or two. Help can be a few hours, overnight or around the clock. If needs change, we change the plan with you.
How Boerne families pay for care
Most families pay us directly for the hours they schedule. Other ways families cover home care in Boerne:
- Long-term care insurance. Our Certified Long-Term Care Advocate can help you use a long-term care policy for home care.
- VA Aid and Attendance. Veterans and surviving spouses may be able to put their own VA Aid and Attendance benefit toward caregivers. Troy “Doc” Wilch, our co-owner and a Navy Hospital Corpsman, can explain how it works.
- Medicare GUIDE respite. For a loved one with dementia on Original Medicare, we are an approved respite provider for PocketRN’s GUIDE program, and we help with the paperwork. See what GUIDE respite covers for families.
Original Medicare does not pay for ongoing help with bathing, meals or company at home. We are glad to talk through your options on the first call.
Who oversees care in Boerne
Nancy Wilch, MSN, RN, co-owner and Director of Nursing, meets each family at the free in-home visit, writes the care plan and oversees the caregivers who carry it out. After a fall, a new diagnosis or a hospital stay, she changes the plan with you. Troy “Doc” Wilch, co-owner, is a Navy Hospital Corpsman and Marine veteran.
Every caregiver is background-checked, and we are bonded and insured. Assisting Hands Home Care Northeast San Antonio is licensed by the State of Texas, license #023668. Every Boerne visit is scheduled and supervised by our Bulverde office.
Here is what families say about our Bulverde office:
