Hello, my name is Kay Jurica. After spending my whole life growing up in Manteno, Illinois, I noticed that many families needed help with elderly parents, in order to enable them to remain SAFELY in their homes as they grew older. I did my research to find a service that could help these families by providing caring, well-trained, trustworthy companions and I opened Home Helpers in March 2009, providing Senior Care and Recuperative Care in our community.

With my background as a respiratory therapist and experience working with patients and families at Christ Hospital, Provena St. Mary's Hospital and Riverside Medical Center over the past 20 years, I can assure you that you and your loved ones will receive excellent care and companionship with Home Helpers. I believe in caring for clients as if I were caring for members of my own family. My caregivers are carefully chosen to meet the specific needs of my clients.

Let me tell you about some of the clients we have already been able to help. Mrs. M. was a very independent woman in her 60's who siffered a stroke, leading to some weakness on one side of her body. She did well on a rehabilitation unit and was discharged home to be with her husband. However, because of his medical problems, he was not able to meet all of her needs while she continued to recuperate at home. We were able to provide her with a caregiver for six hours three times a week, to help with dressing, bathing, preparing meals, companionship and errands, including a weekly trip to the hairdresser! Mrs. M. continued to improve with outpatient therapy and has become almost completely independent. After six weeks, we reduced our help to one day per week for six hours, and Mrs. M and her husband could not be happier.

If your family needs this kind of assistance, then call me at 815-468-1791 or email me at kjurica@homehelpers.cc

Mrs. P. was a very independent, but somewhat frail woman, who lived in an independent living community that consists of several homes managed by a local hospital. Mrs. P. was doing well, but due to arthritis, she was not able to do her own ironing, and she prefered freshly ironed clothing to using a dry cleaner. We were able to place one of our care givers in her home once each week to serve as a companion, to do light housework and to do her weekly ironing. Now Mrs. P. is very happy that she has someone to talk to and her clothing is alway freshly ironed when she gets dressed in the morning.

Many of our families' primary concern is SAFETY. Many elderly persons find that they can maintain most of their daily needs, but because of poor vision, failing hearing or mild memory problems, safety issues arise, such as:

• forgeting to take medications
• forgeting to lock doors and windows at night
• leaving the stove on
• potentially slipping and falling in the bathtub
• driving in inclement weather
• not eating a balanced diet

By having a trained, insured, care giver, many elderly persons are able to remain in their homes, for months and possibly years, before facing the need to move into an assisted living or nursing home.

We are serving clients in the following communities:

• Bradley
• Bourbonnais
• Kankakee
• Momence
• Manteno
• Hersher
• Wilmington
• and other surrounding communities

If you or a family member need help remaining safely at home, call me at 815-468-1791 and I will personally come and perform a free in-home consultation to help you determine whether Home Helpers can help you.

If you call now, we will also provide a FREE Personal Emergency Response System (PERS) for any client who receives at least 15 hours of service per week. By combining the use of our daily services, the personal emergency response system, and family members, we can work together to keep your frail parent or grandparent safe at home, all at a reasonable cost.

Why our in-home services are so good:

• Locally owned and operated
• Licensed by the Illinois Department of Public Health
• Caregivers trained, background checked, bonded and insured
• Services very flexible, cancelled at any time
• Caregivers speak English well
• Transportation available for doctor visits, shopping, hair dresser, etc.
• Agency Manager (Kay Jurica) available 24/7

If you are facing these issues with a parent or grandparent:

• forgetting to take medications
• leaving stove or oven on
• unable to walk without assistance due to poor balance or weakness
• unable to drive and get to necessary appointments safely
• needs someone to talk to
• needs help getting dressed and fed in the morning or getting ready for bed

then you need Home Helpers.

Call me at 815-468-1791 or email me at kjurica@homehelpers.cc