
‘Compassion and care every day’
Helping seniors live at home, wherever their home might be “In 1967, I sat on the floor of a nursing home in Kalona, Iowa,” said Tom Schuett. “I was five years old. There was a metal chair and an old man in a hospital bed. The bed was raised so the man could greet his guests. The room was not warm or inviting and it had an odor I tried to ignore.” Tom was busy playing with his Tonka toys as his mom spoke with the old man. “Women dressed in uniforms scurried about the hallways