LYNN – It?s a year of milestones for All Care Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice, a nonprofit home care organization based in Lynn.This month marks All Care?s 100th year serving the community, and the agency is highly anticipating the opening of its new downtown headquarters later this year.?We?ve been in Lynn for 100 years and that?s why we made the commitment to the city to stay here,” said All Care President and CEO Shawn Potter. “We started out here, and we want to stay here for the next 100 years.”All Care specializes in rehabilitation services for those recovering from illness and injury, home care and assistance for elders and hospice. Their services are available from two hours to 24 hours a day, seven days a week, making it a viable option for the elderly who wish to stay in their home, but need assistance with personal care, basic housekeeping and other chores. All Care services close to 10,000 Lynn citizens, in addition to thousands of others in the North Shore and Greater Boston areas.?Our agency has grown by more than 50 percent in the last 15 years, and home health care will continue to grow. No doubt about it. People want to be at home as long as they can, and the baby-boomers will have the money to pay for private care instead of going into a nursing home,” said Potter.?Research shows that when people stay at home they do much better, especially those with Alzheimer?s or dementia because it?s comfortable and familiar,” added Lyn Skarmeas, All Care vice president of marketing and business development. “It relieves the stress on care givers. For people with elderly parents who are getting old themselves it takes care of the anxiety.”Home health care is not only more comfortable and convenient than institutional care, but it?s more affordable as well. A study by Genworth Financial and the AARP Research & Strategic Analysis showed that the cost of in-home care stated relatively flat from 2010 to 2011, while there was as much as a 5.7 percent increase for an institutional care setting.?There?s no question that Medicare and Medicaid is best spent at home. It can cost up to $10,000 a month at a nursing home, versus a few hundred dollars a week for private care,” said Potter.With the growing demand for home care, All Care will be able to operate more efficiently in their new facility adjacent to the commuter rail station and bus terminal at Market and Broad streets. The five-story headquarters will combine three existing offices – two in Lynn and one in Wakefield – in one building with 125 staff members and hundreds of other nurses, therapists and health aids going in and out all day. This increased traffic will be beneficial to local restaurants and shops during lunch hours, as there is no cafeteria in the building plan.?Our staff deserves the new building. They are dedicated to their patients and to the Lynn community,” Potter said. “We?ve been in our current building for a long time, and in some of the rooms we can?t even open the windows.”The state-of-the-art facility will have plenty of windows, plus a roof patio with a beautiful view of the ocean and Boston skyline. Potter added that other nonprofit organizations will be able to use the patio for functions and fundraisers.Since All Care is not-for-profit, it?s important to note that there will not be any changes to their current occupancy expense. According to Potter, the cost of the new headquarters is equivalent to the cost of renting and operating three separate offices.?Plus, we own the building versus renting it, so the commitment to the city is there,” he said.