Professional, compassionate counseling services may be helpful for you or your loved-ones. Our Clinical Social Workers provide counseling for a wide range of challenges, including: DepressionAnxietyCaregiver StressDecreased Coping SkillsAdjusting to Life TransitionsFamily ConflictsUnresolved GriefLoss of a Spouse or Adult ChildEmotional TraumaCrisisWe are also available to provide screenings for depression and cognitive/memory impairment.Our counseling services can be provided in your home or at Family Eldercare offices at 1700 Rutherford Lane in Austin. Counseling may be covered by Medicare…

To protect those who are at risk of abuse, neglect and/or financial exploitation, a Court of Law appoints Family Eldercare to be legal guardian of persons who lack the mental capacity to make decisions (due to age, illness or disability) and have no appropriate family or friends to act in that capacity. Our professional care managers, who have the designation of Texas Certified Guardians, serve as guardian agents for hundreds…

Family Eldercare's Money Management Program helps seniors and people with disabilities continue to live independently in their homes and in their neighborhoods. A less restrictive alternative to guardianship, Money Management offers two levels of services:    • Bill payer assistance is available to low-income elders and people with disabilities who have the capacity to remain in control of their finances and voluntarily receive the services. Services include sorting mail, writing checks…

Family Eldercare helps coordinate a range of services for older adults living independently at several senior housing properties in the community. Family Eldercare's Service Coordinators work onsite to help residents identify and acquire the services they need to remain self-reliant.    Service Coordinators offer assistance on various levels, including helping residents address basic needs, obtain health care services and secure benefits. They also organize educational and social programs and volunteer…

After seeing the need for affordable and independent senior living, Family Eldercare raised $5.6 million in private and public funding and opened Lyons Garden in October 2004. This 54-unit senior housing community is an award-winning model providing housing options to low-income seniors age 62+. Residents live independently in one-bedroom apartments and have access to a large community building and an expansive interior courtyard.    Lyons Garden is located at 2720…

Lifetime Connections Without Walls is building a community of seniors over the phone. The program is open to anyone over the age of 50.    Older adults can join from the comfort of their home, using their own telephone. Our goal is to alleviate social isolation and loneliness. We provide social activities over the phone and bridge distances separating our older adults. Call topics include: Coffee Talks Brain Aerobics Bingo…

Family Eldercare’s annual Summer Fan Drive meets a critical basic need: relief from life-threatening heat for those who do not have or cannot afford a fan or air-conditioning. For over 20 years, the Fan Drive has been serving low-income seniors, adults with disabilities and families with children. Funds raised during the Summer Fan Drive go to purchase fans for individuals and families who need help to beat the summer heat, to…

Often the people we serve at Family Eldercare have little or no family to celebrate the holidays with. We try to step in and provide some comfort and cheer with holiday gifts for seniors and adults with disabilities who may otherwise receive nothing.    Each year we ask the community to pitch in by sponsoring a senior or an adult with a disability. Sponsorship includes fulfilling the "wish lists" of one or…