Founded in 2019. Built around the families nobody else will help.

Samuel Saunders was raised by his great auntie. As she got older, he learned what older people actually need. Sometimes it was complex care. Sometimes it was company. Always it was someone who paid attention. That observation sat with him for years.

In 2019, he founded Life Changing Care as a multifaceted healthcare agency serving adults with developmental disabilities and complex behavioral needs across Ohio. Home care. Respite. Community respite. Homemaker care. Transportation. Day programs. The work was unpredictable and delicate, and it required a calm presence that holds steady through behaviors most caregivers walk away from.

Samuel staffed the agency with caregivers who already had what the work demanded. Our care team brings more than fifteen years of complex behavioral care experience between them. Every caregiver who works under the Life Changing Care name also earns the Direct Service Provider credential before they take a shift. Ohio designed that certification for behavioral support. We have been applying it daily since the agency opened.

Working in the developmental disability program, Samuel noticed something. A meaningful share of the individuals his team served were in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. They needed both the developmental disability care AND elder home health support. He decided to blend the two together. Open the elder home care division. Help a wider range of Ohioans become independent and continue to live in the community.

Then the calls came from families navigating something else. A daughter caring for her mother with mid-stage Alzheimer's. A son trying to keep his father at home one more year. A wife whose husband had started wandering at three in the morning. Two and three other agencies had already turned them away. The behaviors that come with dementia, they were told, were too much.

We knew those behaviors. We had been responding to versions of them every shift. Sundowning. Aggression. The loss of recognition that frightens a spouse. All of it had practical protocols in our playbook.

We want the rough dementia cases. We want the people who are hard to deal with, who have been through agency after agency. We have the patience. We have the empathy. We don't give up.