ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - DePaul Community Resources is expanding its Agency-Directed Services to the New River Valley and the Lynchburg areas, bringing much-needed in-home care to people who are aging or have disabilities.

“Assistance with things that you do every day, bathing, dressing, using the restroom, moving about your home, sometimes just provided some supervision, and we set them up with someone that can help them do those things, whether it be a family member or loved one, or we might interview and hire someone and bring them into their home to assist them,” said Agency-Directed Services Director, Lauren Sherwood.

Sherwood said many of the more than 200 families involved in ADS are family caregivers. Casey Guthrie quit her job as a nurse to care for her 3-year-old son, Beckett,

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