Message from Our CEO, Russell Piper
As the owner and founder of Caring Matters, I understand the client perspective. After experiencing the difficulty of finding quality care for a loved one I was moved to launch an organization that would help others in their time of need.
My father had dementia and my mother served as his caregiver for many years. While all of my brothers and sisters, including myself, were away at college, my mother had to have emergency surgery, leaving no one on such short notice to care for my dad. So, for a few days, until the family could get home to help my mother, my father had to go to a nursing home. Within just a few days of his arrival at the nursing facility, he developed skin breakdown, a urinary tract infection, and a respiratory tract infection--none of which had ever happened while he was in my mother's care. At that point, I made a promise to myself and to my dad that one day I would find a way to help people handle the basics of day to day living while caring for a loved one. After nearly 20 years in the nursing field helping to provide direct hands-on care to individuals in need, I founded Caring Matters to provide quality at-home care at affordable rates delivered with kindness and professionalism. In doing so, I kept my promise to my father and to myself, and have been able to help thousands of families around the country receive the help they need.