Karen Cavaca
Cahoon Care Associates, LLC
- karen@cahooncare.com
- 7816354968
- 269 Hanover Street, PO Box 264, Hanover, Massachusetts 02339
- www.cahooncare.com
Cahoon Care Associates is a non-medical home care agency serving seniors and their families throughout the South Coast, Greater Boston, the South Shore, Cape Cod, and the Hancock County area of Maine. We are a family-owned business founded in 2010 by Margery Cahoon Parker and her daughter-in-law, Carolyn Parker. By providing highly customized personal care, companion care, and Alzheimer’s and dementia care, our skilled caregivers and care managers help clients, and their loved ones enjoy peace of mind. Cahoon Care is based in Hanover, and Sandwich, Massachusetts, and Ellsworth, Maine.
I came to Cahoon Care with over two decades of leadership experience ranging from Managing a Fortune 500 Company’s specialty sales teams, selling custom trade show exhibits, to Operations of a small market research firm.
Several years ago, I asked myself what I want the closing chapter of my working years to look like. Meaningful, challenging, and helpful to and for people was the answer. After graduating college in my early 50’s and starting a career as a paralegal in 2019, yes as in Covid-19 2019, that role paused. At the same time, Carolyn Parker, co-founder of Cahoon Care and my dearest friend, needed help recruiting to fill the ever-increasing demand for in home caregivers during the pandemic. We agreed this would be the perfect temporary solution for both of us. As they say, the rest is history, and I am now the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer! There is always someone new to help, something new to learn, and is the perfect final chapter of my working years. Or at least paid working years.
Volunteer work, or my mitzvah, is an important part of my life. I currently work with Barnstable Neighbor to Neighbor serving the elderly community. In the past, I worked with Our Daily Bread in Taunton, Citizens for Citizens in Fall River and was awarded Volunteer of the Year, worked as a Rape Crisis Counselor, and as a Career Counselor for MCI Framingham’s reentry program.