Our Founding Story
Our Story
The journey for our founder and owner, Juan Tuason, started when his father’s health began to decline. He and his siblings saw how the burden of being a caregiver was causing their mother’s health to decline as well. So, the siblings held an intervention, and convinced their father to move in with Juan and his family. For the next three years, Juan was primary caregiver for his dad. One day, after months of convincing his dad to finally see a doctor, Juan arranged to leave work early, picked up a tank of oxygen from across town, then came home to pick up his dad.
As soon as he arrived, his dad complained of exhaustion and chest pains - and suggested they cancel the appointment. In the heat of the moment and height of stress, Juan snapped. Thinking his dad was yet again avoiding a doctor visit, they had an argument and Juan suggested that his dad needed to go to a nursing home because he was not accepting his help. His dad insisted that he was not faking his aches and pains, so Juan suggested they call 911 (thinking he would never agree since he feared hospitals). When his dad agreed - he suddenly knew that this was serious. Later that night, his dad went into a coma and 10 days later passed away. Juan never lost the guilt of that last conversation with his dad and pledged to make up for it by serving and caring for others.
To honor his dad, Juan signed up as a volunteer minister for his church’s sick and homebound parishioners. That is when he was first introduced to the concept of home care – and realized that he had a passion for working with seniors. It did not take long before he left his corporate finance job and took the plunge with the launch of Paragon Home Care. With his dad as his “spiritual partner,” the company has grown steadily since 2013.