Residents dancing beneath the parlor chandelier

Care & services

How we care

Every level of care we offer, what it includes and who it is for.

Care & services

Care that keeps the same hours you do

A nurse visits before move-in to write your service plan. Rent covers the apartment, the table and the evenings; your care level covers the help. Both are written down before you sign.

Personal care

Help with bathing, dressing and grooming
Mornings or evenings, whichever you prefer. Night owls are not rushed into bed.
Care level
Medication management
Pharmacy-packaged medications given and charted by certified medication aides, overseen by our RN.
Care level
An experienced night shift
Three caregivers awake overnight, the most senior team in the building, with a nurse on call.
Included
Evening routines
Help with the bedtime things: a warm shower, compression stockings off, the CPAP set, the blinds drawn.
Care level
Pendant and bedside call
Wearable pendants and bathroom pull cords that ring the caregiver's phone.
Included
Diabetes care
Glucose checks and insulin given by the nurse, with suppers the kitchen plans around them.
Care level
Mobility help
Steady arms to the dining room, the porch and the parlor.
Care level
Continence care
Quiet help, supplies ordered for you and laundry handled the same day.
Care level

Health

Registered nurse on staff
Our director of nursing writes and updates every service plan.
Included
Physician visits on site
Our medical director sees residents in their apartments twice a month; you may keep your own doctor.
Medicare Part B
Therapy in the house
Physical and occupational therapy here when your doctor orders it.
Medicare Part B
Home health coordination
After a hospital stay, a home health agency can visit you here as it would at home. We set up the schedule.
Medicare home health
Sleep-friendly care
Night checks planned around how you sleep, not a clipboard.
Included
Hospice coordination
If the time comes, your hospice team visits here and you stay in your own apartment.
Hospice benefit

Evenings at the house

Music nights in the parlor
Accordion, fiddle, piano and the occasional church choir, Tuesday through Saturday at seven.
5 nights a week
Stargazing on the back lawn
Chairs, blankets and a volunteer astronomer on the new-moon weekend. Fredericksburg skies are dark.
Monthly
Porch hour
Iced tea or hot cider on the west porch from six until the sun is down.
Daily
Evening chapel
Vespers in the old front room with hymns in English and German.
Sundays
Card tables and dominoes
Forty-two, canasta and a pinochle game that has run since 2011.
Nightly
Movie and popcorn night
Westerns, musicals and requests, with real popcorn.
Fridays

Dining

Three meals a day
Supper at five-thirty on cloth, with a lighter late plate if you're hungry at eight.
Included
Hill Country kitchen
German sausage and red cabbage on Thursdays, peach cobbler all summer and Sunday schnitzel.
Included
Special diets
Diabetic, low-sodium, soft and pureed diets planned with a consulting dietitian.
Included
Evening sweets and coffee
Strudel, kolaches and decaf in the parlor on music nights.
Included
Family dinners
Bring the family to supper any night; the long table seats twelve.
Per guest

Home and town

Weekly housekeeping and linens
Dusting, floors, bath and fresh sheets.
Included
Personal laundry
Washed, pressed and hung back up twice a week.
Included
Utilities, Wi-Fi and cable
One bill, with Wi-Fi strong enough for the grandkids' video calls.
Included
Maintenance
Pictures hung and lamps wired on move-in day.
Included
Transportation
Doctor visits in Fredericksburg and Kerrville, Main Street shopping and church on Sunday.
Included
Outings around Gillespie County
Peach stands in June, Enchanted Rock at sunset, the Christmas lights on the Marktplatz.
Most included

Short stays

Respite stays
A furnished apartment for a week or a month while a family caregiver rests or travels.
Daily rate
Trial stays
Try two weeks of evenings here before you decide.
Daily rate
Care conferences
Every six months, and any time needs change, in person or by video.
Included
Move-in help
Floor plans, local movers and someone to hang the pictures before your first supper.
Included