Someone’s


ALWAYS Home


“The peace of mind is priceless,” says Stu Cary.


“Having someone to talk to is also priceless!” adds his mother Ann, a client of Landis at Home. “The caregivers are wonderful. They are all such lovely people.”


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tu and his mother Ann, 92, live together in Lititz. Since Stu’s career requires a long daily commute, he was concerned for Ann both physically and


emotionally. Although his siblings are very involved with their mother’s care, they live in other states. He notes, “We needed to have someone at home with mom because the closest child is an hour and a half away.”


More than twenty years ago, Ann purchased long-term care insurance which now funds a majority of her in-home care, five days a week. Each weekday, a Landis at Home home care aide makes breakfast and lunch for Ann. Every other week, the caregiver walks Ann to the hair salon and back to the house. Ann shares that she looks forward to spending time talking with her companions, saying, “Tey are almost like a best friend.” She always finds their conversations very interesting. One Landis at Home aide has taught her a lot about birds they see from the patio.


Ann Cary is originally from Clayton, Missouri, just outside St. Louis. Although she remembers the 1940s fondly, noting she loved being a “bobby soxer,” she also recalls the difficult rationing of food and raw material the county faced in those years in support of the war effort. After years in Connecticut and Ohio, Ann and her husband settled in Pennsylvania. Her fondest memories of the years with her


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