Home care in New Braunfels often starts with a family that has deep roots here. Mom has walked Landa Park for years. Dad never misses Wurstfest. Now one of them needs help bathing, cooking or getting to the doctor, or a hospital stay just ended and nobody can be home all day. Assisting Hands Home Care Northeast San Antonio sends trained, background-checked caregivers into New Braunfels homes for a few hours, overnight or around the clock.
Our office is in Bulverde, at 32685 US Hwy 281 N, Suite 180. New Braunfels 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 New Braunfels
The first days home are often the hardest. New Braunfels families are often coming home from CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Hospital on North Union Avenue, from Resolute Health Hospital on Creekside Crossing, or after inpatient rehab at New Braunfels Regional Rehabilitation Hospital on Sundance Parkway. Others finish a short rehab stay at Kirkwood Manor before coming home.
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 help in New Braunfels works.
Nancy brings a nurse’s eye to these homecomings. She spent more than 30 years at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, caring for stroke and brain injury patients in the Neuro ICU, and she taught nursing students their hospital clinicals.
Home care across New Braunfels, Landa Park to Gruene
New Braunfels is the Comal County seat, a city of more than 90,000 people that Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels founded in 1845. We care for families all over it: near City Hall on Landa Street and the shaded paths of Landa Park, along the Comal River, in the older streets around downtown, up in Gruene, and in the newer neighborhoods out Walnut Avenue toward Creekside.
We plan around how New Braunfels moves. River season and festival weekends shape when a caregiver should leave for a shift, because traffic near the Comal and Schlitterbahn can stack up fast. If your home sits on a hill or behind a gate out west of town, 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 like to get out can keep going: a caregiver can drive them to the senior center on Landa Street, a morning at Landa Park, or a slow lunch in Gruene.
What home care visits in New Braunfels cover
Many New Braunfels 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 for New Braunfels seniors
- Fresh meals and family recipes made at home and help with dishes, laundry and dusting
- Groceries, errands, rides to appointments and medication reminders
- Stories, old photos and companionship for New Braunfels parents
When memory loss is part of the picture, our memory care at home for New Braunfels keeps each day calm and familiar. If you are the family caregiver and need time back, respite care for New Braunfels families gives you a real break. When someone should not be alone at all, 24-hour care from caregivers in shifts keeps someone in the house. 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 New Braunfels 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 New Braunfels families pay for care
Most families pay us directly for the hours they schedule. Other ways families cover home care in New Braunfels:
- Long-term care insurance. Our Certified Long-Term Care Advocate can help you open a long-term care insurance claim and keep it moving.
- VA Aid and Attendance. Veterans and surviving spouses may be able to put their own VA pension with Aid and Attendance toward care at home. 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. Read about respite through the GUIDE dementia program.
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 New Braunfels
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 New Braunfels visit is scheduled and supervised by our Bulverde office.
Here is what families say about our Bulverde office:
