In-Home Care

We all want to live in our own homes as we age. However, illness, injury, or chronic health conditions create significant challenges. If you find yourself or a loved one unable to live at home without assistance, care in the home might be a workable alternative to placement in an assisted living or skilled nursing facility.

Home Care Services

In home care may include services ranging from household help, such as laundry and meal preparation, to health care, including assistance with medication or dressing wounds. In home care serves the whole family as it relieves caregivers of some tasks that are either beyond their strength or that require professional training.

Home Care

Personal assistance such as help with dressing, bathing, cooking, cleaning, laundry, errands, meal planning, cooking, and more. These services are typically provided by a home care aide. This type of care is helpful to people suffering from dementia who have few health needs, but need consistent monitoring. Respite (e.g., while a caregiver is on vacation) or temporary care (e.g., short-term care following discharge from the hospital while you recover from surgery) are also available.

Home Health Care

To provide medical assistance or home health care, an agency in California must be licensed by the State, and medical services must be provided by a licensed nurse. Basic services include medication dosing and monitoring, prescription refills, and wound dressing changes, and can be overseen by a nurse as needed. Daily needs might include injections, medical equipment monitoring, etc. These services are available on a temporary or long-term basis.

Caregiver Support

When able, families often serve as full-time caregiver in the home. Because being available 24/7 can be very stressful, it is important for family caregivers to take breaks when needed. Home care or home health care agencies may be of assistance, providing respite care (to relieve a caregiver while taking a weekend off), or taking on one shift of care daily (such as the night shift, to allow the caregiver a period of uninterrupted rest). Learn more

Care Coordination

A geriatric care manager can be an enormous help when you are considering alternatives to assisted living or nursing home placement. Care managers provide support during a time of difficult decision-making, and can save families countless hours by drawing on their familiarity with services in the Bay Area and specific training in geriatrics, social work, or nursing. Care managers offer unbiased information on available services, as they work directly for you and do not receive commissions for referrals. Learn more