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One reason why Cooperative is such a terrific place to work is because we truly value our caregivers.  We know how hard their jobs are (many of us, myself included, began our careers as caregivers) and we strive to show them our appreciation every day. One of our...

On July 1, 1986, Fran Sontag, our founder, wandered up to her attorney's office and filed Articles of Incorporation, for a company whose purpose it was to provide off site day habilitation to people with developmental disabilities. Well a lot has happened since that...

25 years ago today, Cooperative Home Care began with one woman's dedication to serving special needs children in their homes.  Congratulations to Cooperative's Founder Fran Sontag, Owners Mitch Waks and Jim Guller, and to the entire Cooperative Team!

Rebecca Zimmerman represents all services Cooperative Home Care offers:  Medicare, Medicaid, VA, Reduced Fee Program and Private Services.  Like all of our Referral Specialists, Rebecca also represents Cooperative's Low Vision Therapy Program that enables...

Meet our summer Software Implementation Interns, Jodie and Danny: Jodie Guller graduated from Parkway North High School in 2011 and will attend the University of Southern California to study neuroscience in the fall.  This is her first summer at...

Cooperative's Referral Specialist Ken shares more highlights from his popular "Healthy Aging Tips" presentation:   Stay connected!  How? Connect regularly with friends and family Make new friends! Spend time with at least one person, every day Volunteer Find...

An absolute highlight of our quarterly inservice this week was Ms. Joanna Jones.  Joanna bravely opened up to our caregivers, taking them through her personal journey of raising her son who has Down Syndrome.  Her talk was striking in its honesty and its...

Karen Mason is our Director of Operations.  This year she's implemented some great performance-based incentive programs for our caregivers.  The best part about them?  They're designed to catch our caregivers doing great things, and to reward their...

When Cooperative's Ken Schwartz, MSW, isn't meeting with a family to start services, he is out and about in St. Louis sharing aging parent resources like these healthy aging tips: Find and follow your formula for healthy aging-and expect it to change as you do. Old...

There are endless resources to help you as you care for your aging parent.  So many, in fact, that finding what works for your Mom or Dad is overwhelmingly time-consuming.  Really, who has time to research what works, what doesn't and why?  Here, I've...