Overture Home Care Sweeps 2024 Best of Home Care Awards® — Named Leader in Experience!
For the last three years in a row, Overture Home Care has been named a Best of Home Care® Employer of Choice. This year, we are grateful, humbled and moved almost beyond words as we have been named Employer of Choice for a fourth straight year — and have also won the 2024 Best of Home Care Provider of Choice Award and been named a 2024 Best of Home Care Leader in Experience.
Spotlight on Home Safety Awareness for Older Adults
March 10–16 is Patient Safety Awareness Week. At Overture Home Care, we’re taking advantage of this week to shine a spotlight on safety awareness for independent older adults and the home care caregivers who help them maintain that independence, keeping them from becoming patients anytime soon.
Getting to Know the Caregivers on National Caregivers Day!
February 16 is National Caregivers Day, and we can’t think of a better way to honor the day than by getting up close and personal with some of our own Overture Home Care caregivers.
Overture Home Care Earns Perfect Scores, Glowing Reviews in Texas Health and Human Services 2023/2024 Survey!
The Texas Health and Human Services Home and Community Support Services Agencies (HCSSA) just completed an intensive, week-long annual certification survey at Overture Home Care and found our agency to be 100% compliant!
Protect Your Loved Ones from Scams and Identity Theft in 2024
Each new year brings advances in senior health and support technology, but also advances in the technology and methods of the scammers and identity thieves targeting our senior loved ones. As they are less familiar with modern technology, seniors are often the targets of fraudsters seeking to exploit unprotected information.
Year in Review for 2023 / Goals for 2024
Happy New Year and welcome to the Overture Home Care 2023 Year in Review! We had an exciting time last year, full of milestones, educational excellence, and heart-warming achievements.
Older Adults and the Holidays
The holidays are a cherished time for family activities, thoughtful gifts, and essential visits for your older loved ones. Please join us now in embracing the season's joy while ensuring the well-being and independence of your senior family members by reviewing a few suggestions from your friends at Overture Home Care.
Out and About with Overture Home Care
The holidays are here, and the Overture Home Care elves have been busy! Here are a few of the behind-the-scenes activities, events, seminars, conferences, and training sessions we have been part of since our last update
Honoring Caregivers in November
November is National Family Caregivers Month. According to a National Alliance for Caregiving / AARP study, about 34.2 million Americans provide unpaid care to a senior adult every year. At Overture Home Care, it is our mission to provide support for those family caregivers as they work tirelessly on behalf of their senior loved ones.
Out and About with Overture Home Care
It has been an amazing month here at Overture Home Care. Here are a few of the behind-the-scenes activities, events, seminars, conferences, and training sessions we have been part of since our last newsletter!
It's an Honor to be Nominated — and to Nominate!
We are proud to announce our nomination of Overture Home Care caregiver Carolyn Wills for the Home Care Association of America (HCAOA) 2023 Caregiver of the Year Award.
Join Overture Home Care on the 2023 Walk to End Alzheimer’s®
We’re doing it again! On October 28 in Fort Worth — and November 4 in Dallas — Overture Home Care will be sponsoring and participating in the 2023 Alzheimer's Association® Walk to End Alzheimer's®.
Combating Senior Isolation with Denise Helms and Paige Wolk
In recognition of this month’s triple whammy of National Depression Screening Day (10/5), World Mental Health Day (10/10) and Mental Illness Awareness Week (10/1–10/7), we want to share with you an important podcast appearance that our CEO Denise Helms, RN, BSN and Senior Vice President Paige Wolk, LBSW, CDP made on the Parent Projects Podcast with Tony Siebers.
Out and about with Overture Home Care!
The Overture Home Care team was out and about all month in August, bringing insights and information to an important senior care podcast, supplying vital training to a senior community in Dallas, and debuting as a featured small business in the new Southlake & Grapevine Scout Guide.
Dementia Live® empathy and understanding from Overture Home Care featured on the AGE-u-cate™ blog
We are honored to announce that our friends at AGE-u-cate chose to feature Overture Home Care and the work of our dedicated Dementia Live trainers and caregivers in their August 3, 2023 blog post, Unlocking Empathy and Understanding: Empowering Caregivers to Make a Profound Impact by Cris Castellano:
Does it feel like stories about scams and cyber frauds are everywhere this summer?
Our older loved ones are particularly at risk from the scams and frauds initiated by those emails, as many seniors control readily available funds, trust institutions that appear legitimate, and have little knowledge of technology and current scams. According to the FBI Elder Fraud information page our elderly population suffers more than $3 billion in losses to fraud annually.
FDA greenlights Leqembi® for the treatment of early Alzheimer’s disease.
This month we are thrilled to join the Alzheimer’s Association in celebrating the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) action to grant traditional approval of Leqembi® (lecanemab) for the treatment of early Alzheimer's disease with confirmation of elevated amyloid beta.
Meet Julie Mercer, our Overture Home Care Dallas Community Liaison
This February, we were thrilled to bring Julie Mercer into the Overture Home Care family as our new Overture Home Care Dallas Community Liaison.