Eldercare Systems Inc

Specialties

Providing personalized home care to individuals or couples wanting to remain in their own homes as long as possible and avoid nursing home placement. Eldercare has been in business since 1988 and provides both hourly and live-​in care at affordable prices. Included in their home care service is a complementary emergency response for the client and caregiver if necessary. Families may also attend «Family Forums» held at the 50&Better Center in Tucker where clients, familly members and homecare staff can interact to explore caregiving options and resolve issues.

History

Established in 1988.

In 1988, Eldercare Systems began offering care management adult daycare and soon expanded the service to include homecare. The daycare operation was closed in 2003 and the 50&Better Center was opened to serve the Tucker community. Ellie Schmittinger, owner and founder, has been in the field of aging since 1979 and became a caregiver in her own home to both her mother and husband from January of 2004 until October of 2010. She is proud to have kept them both at home avoiding nursing home placement; they both died at home as the had requested. After that personal experience, she feels that she has learned the business from both sides and brings much of that to the way Eldercare operates its business, especially with regard to couples and multi-​generational households.

Meet the Business Owner

Ellie S.

Business Owner

Ellie Schmittinger has been in the business of elder care since 1979 when she was appointed the County Aging Unit Director for Florence County WI, After 8 years in that position she moved to Austin Texas an assumed the position of Director of the 15 county Austin area Information & Referral program. She compiled the first 15 county directory and trained the first 24-​hour hospital responders in its use. In 1988 she moved to Atlanta and started Eldercare Systems, Inc. first doing geriatric care management and adult daycare. And, when GA first licensed home care agencies in 1995 Eldercare was one of the first agencies to be licensed.

Ellie Schmittinger is passionate about her desire to help families avoid nursing home as long as possible. She is a TX certified gerontologist, but claims her real education and expertise came from having been on both sides of homecare, as an administrator and as a family member. Ellie had homecare in her own home from 2004 – 2010 for her mother & husband