South Bend & Elkhart is More Than Home Care
It’s Peace of Mind
At Griswold Home Care for South Bend & Elkhart, we offer compassionate in-home care for those who want support to live where they love. With over four decades of experience and a storied legacy of compassion and integrity, we focus on the people we meet and the connections we make right here in our own community. It is our privilege to support your unique needs with respect, empathy, and dedicated attention so you can Live Assured, without the weight of worry.
Griswold is an award-winning pioneer in the non-medical home care industry. We believe Care Professionals are the foundation of our success, and our commitment to innovation is based on our desire to improve the lives of everyone we touch as we serve this community. We focus on personal care, homemaking, companionship, and support for those with conditions, illnesses, or injuries.
Meet Your Team
Mike Stutz
Owner
Mike Stutz is the owner of Griswold Home Care for South Bend & Elkhart alongside Lisa Phelps. As Michiana resident for over 60 years Mike finds nothing more fulfilling than assisting seniors and people with disabilities in finding the right care when they are no longer able to live independently on their own. Mike believes that the most essential element to being a Caregiver is having a caring heart to service.
Mike and his outstanding care team approach each client with the same respect for their wellbeing as if they are their own family members. Professionally bonded and insured, Caregivers share the philosophy that by providing compassionate, caring, and professional care, an aging or disabled loved one can have control and the ability to lead a meaningful and independent life.
Lisa Phelps
Owner
Lisa Phelps is the owner of Griswold Home Care for South Bend & Elkhart alongside Mike Stutz. Prior to Griswold Home Care, Lisa was in various caregiving professions for 40 plus years as well as the Owner of Gentle Pet Protectors, Inc. for 23 years where she provided professional pet sitting, housesitting, and dog walking services to the Metro Detroit area. Specializing in providing care for those living in an independent living home or assisted living homes to provide care for the residents and their pets so they can age together. Not only does Lisa have an extensive background in patient, senior, and animal care, but she also is a licensed Yoga Therapist, specializing in supporting those with all stages of life, disabilities, diagnoses, and limitations. She works closely with others to support those with pain, stress, and anxiety. She is an end-of-life steward and hospice care provider.
Now, Lisa brings a big heart, compassion, integrity, respect, and the desire to provide the most dignity one deserves at a later stage of life. She is passionate about providing support for one to heal and age at home and if they have a beloved pet at home that one is not separated from the other. She not only cares for those in need but the caregivers who provide supportive care. Providing extra support, training, and tools to support them personally and professionally.
In Lisa’s spare time, she enjoys her and her family’s pets, music, playing in the dirt, yoga, and swimming. She is looking forward to raising a therapy dog to be her companion when providing training and care.
In Your Community
We’re in This Together
Our team is dedicated to improving the well-being of our community through serving those who need assistance to live where they love. We are active in the neighborhood, so you’ll see us around town at events, participating in associations and meetings, and supporting local organizations inside and outside the care industry. We firmly believe in our ability to create a happier and healthier place to live through the connections we make with the people in our community.
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Jean’s Story
In 1982, Dr. Jean Griswold founded our company at her dining room table in a small suburb of Philadelphia. She found out that an elderly woman in her community had died of complications because she had no support system for care. Jean felt this was an easily preventable tragedy and was driven to find a solution by pairing Caregivers with those who could not thrive in their homes alone. She was a true visionary, establishing one of the first and most successful non-medical home care organizations in the country, despite being wheelchair-bound due to Multiple Sclerosis. Over 40 years later, her legacy lives on nationwide.
Scholarship
Where would we be without Caregivers? Their selflessness is astounding, yet they are often overlooked and underappreciated. The Jean Griswold Foundation is dedicated to supporting Caregivers, the backbone of the care industry. We provide educational scholarships so Care Professionals can further their training, enhance their skills, elevate their careers, and better assist the people they serve.
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