{"id":417652,"date":"2026-08-26T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417652\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:28:08","slug":"assisting-hands-celebrates-10-years-of-in-home-personalized-care-in-austin-southwest-austin-dripping-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/417652\/","title":{"rendered":"Assisting Hands celebrates 10 years of in-home, personalized care in Austin | Southwest Austin &#8211; Dripping Springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team behind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assistinghands.com\/44\/texas\/westaustin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assisting Hands West Austin<\/a> has helped older adults age with independence for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the owners<\/p>\n<p>Local couple Emmie Knox and Louis LeSassier opened Assisting Hands in 2016 to provide in-home caregiving services to older adults. Over the years, the team has helped hundreds of patients and families in the Austin area and employed many local caregivers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOctober 2026 marks our 10th year serving the Austin community, and we are incredibly proud to have grown alongside the community while remaining focused on personalized, compassionate care and helping older adults age in place,\u201d Knox said in an email to Community Impact.<\/p>\n<p>The team provides a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/assistinghands.com\/44\/texas\/westaustin\/services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">services<\/a>, including:<\/p>\n<p>Personal care and companion servicesGrocery shopping and errandsMeal prepAlzheimer\u2019s &amp; dementia care<\/p>\n<p>Another detail<\/p>\n<p>Knox earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Texas at Austin<\/a>, including her graduate degree from the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialwork.utexas.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Hicks School of Social Work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial work is also an important part of the agency\u2019s approach to care, and several administrative team members bring social work education and experience to their roles,\u201d Knox said in the email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The team behind Assisting Hands West Austin has helped older adults age with independence for a decade. Meet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145542,132,134,133,145543,145544],"class_list":["post-417652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-assisting-hands-west-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-emmie-knox","tag-louis-lesassier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}