Author

Thomas Wiest

CEO, Aspirience Home Care

The Shakopee Valley News recently published a nice article on our business. I thought I would share what they wrote about us…

“Can we help people with health concerns aspire to a better life?” When Tom Wiest and his family asked this question, the result was the founding of Aspirience Home Care. This Shakopee-based business provides services to people who need help with activities of daily living and health-related functions through Personal Care Assistants.

The realization of the need for a company like Aspirience started many years ago when Tom’s mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Tom’s father did a great job taking care of her in the early stages. However, this destructive disease eventually took its toll on him and the rest of the family. The inevitable happened and his mother was put in a nursing home.

His mother went from having his dad take care of her at home, in a setting in which she was most comfortable, right into a full-time nursing home. That’s when Tom and the family started looking at the options and determined to create a home-care company that was guided by very specific principles.  Tom, founder and CEO of Aspirience Home Care says, “Our mission is to empower all caregivers to help home-care clients dream more, do more and be more. Our vision is to turn aspirations into experiences. Hence, our company name Aspirience. We understand that we are in the ‘people’ business, like a good neighbor taking care of a friend.”

Aspirience Home Care provides services to people of all ages who need help with activities of daily living and health-related functions through Personal Care Assistants (PCAs). They offer hourly, daily or weekly service, 365 days per year to a wide variety of patients from children to seniors, including the convalescing, disabled persons and anyone else who needs help with daily living activities. Aspirience Home Care will help anyone who needs help with routine activities of daily living so that they can live at home.

Tom comments, “Our home care aims to enable people to remain at home in surroundings that are comfortable to them, rather than use institutional-based care facilities. Caregivers visit clients in their own home to help with many different daily tasks such as getting up, going to bed, dressing, toileting, personal hygiene, some household tasks, shopping, cooking, supervision of medication and more.” “We help out with the daily routine of things you and I take for granted every day.”

Aspirience Home Care services those whose needs are described as Activities of Daily Living (ADL) and Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL). ADL refers to basic activities that reflect the patient’s capacity for self-care. IADL refers to more advanced daily activities that enables the client to live independently in the community. Aspirience Home Care is licensed and serves the entire state of Minnesota as well.

Aspirience’s Chief Nursing Officer constructs a personalized care plan designed to fit the needs of the individual. These Care-Giving Services are then provided by Personal Care Assistants who are carefully recruited and trained. Aspirience guarantees its services, and those of its PCAs, who are all bonded, insured and tested. The Chief Nursing Officer monitors each PCA’s activities to ensure compliance with client care plans.

If you, or a loved one aspires to a better, more fulfilling life and could benefit from in home health care, give Aspirience a call today.

The printed article can be found by clicking here.

It’s important to know, Aspirience Home Care can help you with home care.

Author

Thomas Wiest

CEO, Aspirience Home Care

PRESS RELEASE – Shakopee, Minnesota, June 11, 2007 – Aspirience Home Care Joins the Care Options Network of Home and Health Care Providers.

Care Options Network is a widely respected information and referral resource for senior care professionals in the Twin Cities area.

The Network is comprised of over 1,000 members of the senior health care and senior service provider industry. The Network staff collects and impartially formats vital care-specific data about senior care providers and services. The Network then distributes this information to the senior care industry, thereby helping find appropriate care, housing, products and services for over a quarter of a million seniors and their families each year.

Care Options Network is part of Volunteers of America of Minnesota, located in Golden Valley. However, Care Options Network is a member-supported program.

About Aspirience: Aspirience Home Care provides services to people of all ages who need help with activities of daily living and health-related functions through Personal Care Assistants (PCAs). We offer hourly, daily or weekly service, 365 days per year to children, young adults, middle age, seniors, the convalescing, disabled persons and anyone else who needs help with daily living activities. Unlike other home care providers, Aspirience Home Care does not limit its services to seniors. Anyone who needs help with routine activities of daily living in order to stay at home, we will help.

Our broad scope of services will allow you to stay independent and in control of your medical, social, spiritual, emotional and environmental well-being. To cover your overall health, Aspirience’s care model incorporates the following three components:

- Skilled Nursing Care Management

- Home Caregiving Services

- Healthcare Professionalism

Providing expert navigation to maximize your entitled benefits. We are here to meet your needs, and we understand that those needs may change. Therefore, you will never have to enter into a contract with us. We understand the fact that this business is built around ‘people’ and nothing else and we have been in the ‘people’ business for over 20 years.

It’s important to know, Aspirience home care can help you with your home care needs.

Author

Thomas Wiest

CEO, Aspirience Home Care

PRESS RELEASE – Shakopee, Minnesota, April 2, 2007 – Aspirience Home Care is today proud to announce the launch of the Aspirience Home Care web site www.aspirience.com.

The development of an Aspirience web site for its customers has been a long time in the planning stage. The Aspirience board of directors is committed to ensuring its continuing success and development as a resource and communication conduit for customers, employees and other personal care assistant agencies. The web site will not be a static site and will evolve in response to the requirements and needs of such. Aspirience CEO, Thomas Wiest said ‘I would encourage customers and other home care community resources alike to have a look at the site and feedback their suggestions as to how we can further develop it to meet their needs’.

Our web site provides information about Aspirience the company, our corporate structure, activities, news, partners, newsletters and all available services as well as providing for direct communications channels between the company and the home care community at large.

It’s important to know, instant communication and resources about home care are available at your fingertips at www.aspirience.com.

Author

Thomas Wiest

CEO, Aspirience Home Care

PRESS RELEASE – Shakopee, Minnesota, March 5, 2007 – Aspirience Home Care to sponsor The Alzheimer’s Association and Mayo Clinic’s A Meeting of the Minds, The Dementia Conference.

This annual conference, being held March 24th at the St. Paul RiverCentre, St. Paul, Minnesota brings together national and local experts for a full day of education, information and support.

The event is designed to equip families, professionals and people with early Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias with the skills to understand and address issues throughout the continuum of the disease.

The conference includes an exhibit area, where sponsors, such as Aspirience Home Care, and exhibitors can have face-to-face conversations with event attendees and volunteers.

Other conference features:

• 2007 Research Update by Ronald C. Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., Mayo Clinic
• A keynote address by Michael Stein, M.D.
• Breakouts led by national and local experts.
• Exhibitors on hand to provide information on services available in your region.
• Continuing Education for health care professionals.

In 2006, the conference attracted nearly 500 people, approximately 50% of whom were people with dementia or their family members. This year the expected turnout will be even higher.

It’s important to know, you can partner with a home care provider like Aspirience to help you too.

Author

Thomas Wiest

CEO, Aspirience Home Care

PRESS RELEASE – Shakopee, Minnesota, December 4, 2006 – A1 Health Care recently completed the re-naming and brand platform development of its company into Aspirience Home Care, a Twin Cities-based and Minnesota state licensed provider of personal care assistant services.

“Health care consumers place a great deal of trust in the provider, making this brand positioned for success”, said Ecra Creative Group Principal Jason Voiovich, whose company was retained for the massive naming and branding project.

“The name ‘Aspirience’ communicates instantly a positive, hopeful, and clear message to the home care service buying audience that this company can turn aspirations into experiences” remarked Voiovich.

The move positions the company to become a dominant player in the estimated $600 million local Twin Cities market for personal care services. National estimates put the market opportunity at over $50 billion with growth prospects in the 10 to 15 percent per year range.

While most personal care service companies focus their brand position on the geriatric market, Aspirience Home Care has strong experience with clients along the entire age and health spectrum: Younger children with physical or mental disabilities, disabled adults, elderly, those recovering from injury and so on. This broader focus and market specialty is reflected in our brand name and position.

Aspirience Home Care launches the new name, logo and brand strategy December 1, 2006. The company was previously known as A1 Health Care.

About Aspirience Home Care:

Shakopee, Minnesota based Aspirience Home Care provides services to people who need help with activities of daily living and health-related functions through Personal Care Assistants (PCAs).

Aspirience Home Care also publishes the weekly column the State of the Home 2006 (http://www.aspirience.com/blog), a weekly column reviewing and analyzing current home care topics and trends.