Preferred Care at Home of Virginia Beach | 1520 Stonemoss Ct Suite #101 Virginia Beach, VA 23462
- Services
Hospital to Home Care, Transition Care
Smooth-Transition Care, an affordable, evidence-based service, combines four key components to prevent readmission in elderly people.
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Companion Care
Too often, with age comes loneliness. The feeling that no one cares creeps in. Aging has a way of reminding you of family members and friends who have passed on. You can feel like you're alone.
Homemaker Care
Preferred Care at Home's homemaker care. We make your house into that special place again. We do the chores and provide those tender loving touches that make you comfortable. Ultimately, our homemaker care can help you or a loved one remain where you want to be home.
Personal Care
As we mature, our needs change. The things that were once simple to perform become complicated.We can provide you or your loved one assistance and direction with all the tasks referred to as activities of daily living.
Dementia/Alzheimer’s Care
If you or your parent has Alzheimer's disease, you're not alone. After all, every 70 seconds someone is diagnosed with it. Yet it can feel so isolating, so overwhelming.
Live-in Care
Peace of mind. It's so often an elusive dream for people with elderly parents and for elderly people themselves. That's why Preferred Care at Home has always been known best for our 24-hour peace-of-mind service called live-in care.
End-of-Life Care
At Preferred Care at Home, we partner with hospices to care for people as they approach life's final transition. Our caregivers are specially trained in end-of-life care. Depending on your needs, they may, for example, prepare easy-to-eat foods, read to you, and watch for discomfort and summon health-care providers if needed.
Specialty Care
Preferred Care at Home provides a variety of specialty services. These services are built around the unique needs of the individual. Included are packages for New Mothers and Surgery Recovery.
Skilled Care
Our medically trained and licensed caregivers are available to assist with your nursing needs. These services can be as simple as wound care to ventilator care.
Services
At Preferred Care at Home, we're passionate about keeping elderly people safe and independent in their own home. We offer a variety of in-home care services, so you can be sure we have the option that will work best for you.
Please explore our services listed to the left.
- Caregivers
Caregiver Qualifications
Every Preferred Care at Home caregiver possesses two key characteristics: a compassionate heart and home-care experience. The first and most significant characteristic is the compassionate heart. No training can create this uncompromising, required quality.
Caregiver-Screening Process
To ensure you receive the highest-quality home care possible, we put all caregiver applicants through a rigorous, seven-step screening process after we receive their comprehensive caregiver application. You can learn more about this process in the video and article below.
Become a Caregiver
Caring for people in need can be rewarding work. At Preferred Care at Home, we're always looking for people with the appropriate experience. But most importantly, we seek home-care aides who are compassionate and reliable.
Our Caregivers
When you choose a home-care service, one consideration stands above all else: the quality of the caregivers who will be at your or your loved one's side. You want people you can trust without question.
- Locations
- Blog
- Resources
Common Senior Concerns
What are you most concerned about Our Common Senior Concerns section provides a growing library of articles surrounding topics such as preventing falls, keeping your home safe and paying for home care.
Common Senior Illnesses
At Preferred Care at Home, we want to help you stay as independent as possible. Our caregivers are specially trained to help people with all sorts of illnesses common in seniors. The articles also detail how Preferred Care at Home can specifically help you.
Family-Caregiver Support
Family-Care Support is where you can access Preferred Care at Home's Family Learning Center, our supportive tool that teaches caregiving tips. Here, you might find even better ways to care for your loved one.
Personal Health Record
Personal Health Record is a free 15-piece tool kit that helps you easily organize all your health information in one spot. No more digging through papers to find your doctor's phone number or squinting at medication bottles to figure out the instructions. Everything is at your fingertips.
Senior Resource Panel
Did you know there are a wealth of resources in your community to help you live independently. There's transportation, financial resources, help at home and even free services. To make your life easier, we've introduced free town-hall meetings that feature elite groups of local senior-care experts.
Senior Care Newsletter
Our free e-newsletter provides easy access to senior health information and news. This lighthearted resource is designed to be informative yet engaging. It covers the current topics you're most interested in.
Senior Resource Links
Our Senior Links may be just what you're looking for. We've compiled what we think are the best senior-information sites all in one convenient place.
Frequently Asked Questions about Senior Home Care
If you have a question, most likely others have asked it too. Check out Frequently Asked Questions for an overview of the most common things we get asked. If your answer isn't there, please contact us. We'd be happy to add it.
Community Event Calendar
If you have a question, most likely others have asked it too. Check out Frequently Asked Questions for an overview of the most common things we get asked. If your answer isn't there, please contact us. We'd be happy to add it.
Resources
As we age, our needs change. You may find yourself or people you love suddenly facing challenges in their physical or mental well-being. If you need help understanding these concerns, you can access a reservoir of material here in our resources section.
- About
Dispelling the Confusion about Home Care
We invite you to give us a call anytime and experience the Preferred Care at Home difference. When you talk with us, you’ll find that we have: A singular focus: private home care. No sales gimmicks for other products we’re selling. No assisted-living gimmicks in which we get cuts for referrals.
At Preferred Care at Home, we’re passionate about not only helping elderly people but also advocating for them. We recognize the wealth of knowledge and experience they possess. We believe that to be a strong community, we can’t ignore their stories and knowledge. And we’re concerned that elderly people have lost value in our culture. We want to be part of changing that.
Mission Statement
For many older people, home is everything. It’s a window to the past, a safehaven for the present and the legacy they long to leave for the next generation.
Preferred Care at Home’s History
“Quality services at affordable prices” is and will always be at the center of every Preferred Care at Home location. It’s no coincidence that Preferred Care at Home has expanded over four times faster than the average franchise company and that the Preferred family now stretches as far northwest as Alaska, northeast as New York and south Florida.
Philanthropy
At Preferred Care at Home, we’re passionate about not only helping elderly people but also advocating for them. We recognize the wealth of knowledge and experience they possess. We believe that to be a strong community, we can’t ignore their stories and knowledge. And we’re concerned that elderly people have lost value in our culture. We want to be part of changing that.
Press Room
Preferred Care at Home is a national, nonmedical home-care franchise specializing in affordable elderly care. Its caregivers assist clients with daily tasks and offer emotional and social companionship. Services are provided in-home or at care facilities and enable clients to celebrate life, dignity and independence.
Privacy Policy
Preferred Care at Home is a national, nonmedical home-care franchise specializing in affordable elderly care. Its caregivers assist clients with daily tasks and offer emotional and social companionship. Services are provided in-home or at care facilities and enable clients to celebrate life, dignity and independence.
About Us
Since 1984, the husband-and-wife founders of Preferred Care at Home have been helping seniors stay in their homes, happily and safely. Now a nationally franchised but still family-run business, Preferred Care at Home offers high-quality in-home care at affordable rates.
- Contact
I chose senior home care out of a strong desire to help the senior community and to make a difference in their lives.
- Shirley Baptiste-Zwahl Owner, Preferred Care at Home of Virginia Beach
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About Preferred Care at Home
Senior Home Care Services in Virginia Beach
Preferred Care at Home of Virginia Beach is a boutique senior home care company that offers access to personalized, one-to-one senior care services to clients and their families. My senior home care company refers highly qualified and committed professionals who specialize in Homemaker and Companion Care, Personal Care, and Skilled Care services. We also have an extensive understanding of the needs of those with Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
My name is Shirley Baptiste-Zwahl, and I would like to be your home care advocate and problem solver.
Our Commitment
Senior home care is my calling and my way of serving the community and its seniors. My husband John and I are active members of our local Senior Resource Center. Together we occasionally do a radio show called “Home Care Corner” to help provide answers to very important questions like “what are my long-term care options?” I am also on the Mayor’s Commission on Aging, as well as the Virginia Beach and Norfolk Task Forces on Aging.
What It Means To Be Preferred
The caregivers we work with are vetted and interviewed. We only refer the senior care professionals who have a passion for service and caregiving. From there we perform extensive background checks and verify their credentials.
My staff and I will then work with you to find the right fit, no matter how long it takes — because we believe that connection between senior care recipient and provider is vitally important.
If you or your loved one is in need of senior home care in Virginia Beach, please give me a call and let me help guide you through your senior care options.
Senior Home Care Services
- Companion Care
- Homemaker Care
- Personal Care
- Skilled Care
- Alzheimer’s/Parkinson Care
- Live-in Care
- End-of-Life Care
- Post-Surgery and Hospital Transition Care
- Medication Reminders
- Meal Preparation
- Incidental Transportation
Preferred Care at Home
Servicing Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Suffolk including Alanton, Bay Colony, Bayfront, Bayside, Bay Island, Birdneck Point, Broad Bay Island, Cavalier Park, Chic’s Beach, Castleton, Courthouse Estates, Church Point, Croatan, Harbour Point, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Kings Grant, Lagomar, Kempsville, Oceanfront, Pungo, Wolf’s Snare, Sandbridge, Plantation, Strawbridge, Great Neck, Middle Plantation, Litchfield Manor, Thalia, Thoroughgood, Little Neck and Witchduck; and in Chesapeake, including Deep Creek, Great Bridge, Mount Pleasant, Greenbrier, and South Norfolk
