Why Embrace Group Home

As the elderly population continues to grow, there are more individuals of 65 years and older who need long-term care and support services.  These individuals want more options to continue to live outside institutions and remain a viable citizen within the community.   To create choices for individuals who prefer to remain in a homelike setting, adult foster care enables an individual to foster the greatest personal freedom and independence more than elsewhere. Studies show that residents of smaller living settings tend to be happier than residents of nursing home facilities. In addition to providing one caregiver for every six residents, an adult foster care is often less than half of the cost of larger assisted living facilities and almost one third the cost of most nursing homes.

Embrace Group Home, LLC. was formed as an adult foster care to provide a family home setting for adults who are unable to live alone due to physical, emotional or developmental impairments. The home provides 24 hour care for functionally impaired residents. Residents receive meals, support, supervision, and assistance with personal care and living skills as needed.  Embrace meets the need of adults who require periodic or regular assistance with activities of daily living but do not require nursing services. Examples of “activities of daily living” include: dressing, bathing, eating, brushing teeth or combing hair.

What does Embrace have to offer:

• Private home in a residential-zoned neighborhood
• No more than five or six older adults or persons with physical disabilities
• No more than two residents to a room
• Non-medical services such as meals, medication supervision or reminders, or help with some activities of daily living (ADLs)
• May provide some skilled nursing services, but not 24-hour skilled nursing care
• Room and board
• At least three meals a day with snacks (Healthy/Nutritious & individualized) 
• Reminders to take medicine
• Assistance with personal care
• Companionship
• Assistance with activities of daily living (dressing, bathing, brushing etc.)
• Expendable items used by the residents
• Laundry services
• Non-medical transportation
• Socialization
• Family atmosphere
• Clean environment
• Cable TV
• Special activities planned to engage residents and stimulate their minds
• Outings
• Birthday parties and holidays celebrations
• Mild exercise program
• Easy visitation schedules for family members

Group Home Vs. Nursing Home/Assisted Living

Adult foster care (AFC) offers a community-based living arrangement to adults who are unable to live independently because of physical or mental impairments or disabilities and are in need of supervision or personal care. Homes providing adult foster care offer 24-hour supervision, protection, and personal care in addition to room and board. They may provide additional services. Adult foster care serves a designated, small number of individuals (generally from one to six) in a homelike and family-like environment.

Relative to institutional care, AFC homes are also a cost-effective way to age in the community.  An older adult with sufficient financial resources typically pays out-of-pocket for AFC services, room, and board. AFC caregivers also typically provide lower level and thus less expensive services than those available in a nursing facility or other settings.   In addition to their cost-effectiveness, foster care homes have the advantage of being more integrated into their surrounding residential communities than larger institutional facilities. In combination with more formal regulation, the eyes and ears of neighbors can add an informal layer of community oversight that can help ensure the provision of quality care.

We anticipate continued growth and need in the market for these types of homes with the ever growing elderly population and governmental restrictions and reimbursement decline that may impact other provider types (e.g. SNF, ALF).

Our Goals & Objectives

At Embrace, we strive to provide safe housing to the elderly in the comfort of a home setting rather than a skilled nursing facility or a large complex where patients don’t receive individual care or attention. With the growing population of elderly and cuts to programs that keep the elderly safe and comfortable in their own homes, we understand it is becoming critical to offer alternative solutions to the elderly and their family members.  These choices need to make our residents feel like they are still a part of the community, not excluded and put into big buildings with no compassion or individual attention. Embrace Group Home provides private care in a safe environment to residents and value them and their abilities to function as productive members.

Embrace wants its potential residents and family members to understand they are not putting the resident into an institution, but rather in a home where they are provided with compassionate care in a manner that makes them feel truly valued.  A lot of seniors are hesitant leaving the comfort of their home and moving into any group setting.  Embrace promises to listen to our residents and their families, to ensure their satisfaction pertaining to the care they receive and/or any concerns they might have. Our staff treats all residents as they would want to be treated themselves, with love and compassion and understanding.

Our caregivers encourage the residents to provide input regarding the meals and activities that are scheduled so that they feel valued while providing our residents an opportunity to maintain their choices &independence.

Our home

Embrace Group Home is located on North Canton Center Rd. South of Warren Rd.  Our homes features include –

• Over 1700 sq feet of living space
• 3 private/semi private rooms (maximum of 2 residents per room)
• 2 full baths equipped with full showers &bath benches
• Well lit living room, dining room & bedrooms
• Private (secured) deck  to allow residents to relax in the backyard.
• 2 car garage to allow residents to come and go even in harsh weather conditions
• Landscaped yard with birdfeeders
• Shallow creek flowing through backyard
• Three exits from residence for quick evacuation
• Located 1 block from Oakwood 24 hour Emergency
• Multiple healthcare providers (dental, health, pharmacy, etc) within blocks from home
• Multiple restaurants & retail stores located in close proximity of home
• Conveniently located 20 minutes from Metro Detroit Airport

Our Team

Uzma & Imran Khan, the owners & licensee’s have had healthcare experience in the area of Home healthcare since 2006.  Imran has successfully managed a home healthcare agency in the metro Detroit area serving the aged population.  Imran has helped create/supervised the implementation of programs dealing with the aged population and diagnosis such as Dementia, CHF, COPD, Diabetes, Wound care and many more. 

The caregivers at Embrace Group Home are honest, loving people who are devoted to helping others.  They are chosen carefully after proper screening that includes (but not limited to) background & reference checks.

Imran, Uzma and all the caregivers at Embrace have the following training/classes –

• Fundamentals of Caregiving
• First Aid/CPR
• Dementia Training
• Prevention & Containment of Communicable Diseases
• Fire Prevention and Safety
• Residents Rights
• Mental Health
• Medication Administration
• Better Health/Proper Nutrition

Embrace will never hire anyone who has –

• Been convicted of a crime against a person, a vulnerable adult or child.
• Been found by a court in protection proceedings to have abused or financially exploited a vulnerable adult
• Been found in any final decision issued by a disciplinary board, dependency action court, to have sexually or physically abused or exploited a minor or a person with a developmental disability or to have abused or financially exploited a vulnerable adult.
• Been convicted of a crime involving firearms or weapons of any kind
• Been convicted of a crime involving drugs or alcohol
• Suspended, removed, or voluntarily forfeited a professional license due to questionable professional practice or violation of acceptable practice
• Been convicted of other crimes that violate the federal and state laws.

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