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Home Care Services Explained

Home care covers a wide range of support, from a few hours of companionship to around-the-clock, hands-on care. Choose a service below for a plain-language explanation of what it includes, who it's for, and how to find a local provider.

Companion Care

Seniors who live alone, are at risk of isolation, or don't need hands-on personal care but benefit from regular company and light day-to-day support.

Personal Care

Seniors who need help with daily physical tasks but wish to remain at home rather than move to a facility.

24-Hour Home Care

Individuals with advancing dementia, high fall risk, or a recent hospital discharge who need overnight monitoring, or families who want zero gaps in coverage.

Memory Care at Home

Individuals with a dementia diagnosis at any stage, and families who need caregivers trained specifically in dementia care rather than general home health aides.

Respite Care

Family caregivers experiencing burnout, needing to travel, recovering from their own illness, or simply needing planned relief.

Hospital-to-Home Care

Anyone discharged after a hospital stay, surgery, or a rehab facility stint who needs support during the first days or weeks back at home.

Veterans Home Care

Veterans and their spouses who may qualify for VA benefits to help offset the cost of home care.

Senior Transportation & Concierge Support

Independent seniors who no longer drive but don't need personal or hands-on care.

Assisted Living Placement

Families exploring assisted living for an aging loved one who want an experienced local guide through the search, comparison, and move-in process, without paying a fee for that guidance.

Memory Care Placement

Families who have decided, or are close to deciding, that a loved one with dementia needs to move into a secured, specially staffed residential community rather than continue receiving care at home.

Independent Living Placement

Active, largely self-sufficient older adults who want to downsize from a house, reduce home maintenance, and gain more social connection — and families helping them explore independent living, 55+, or retirement community options.

In-Home Care Placement

Families who want a loved one to remain at home rather than move to a residential community, but who don't know where to start comparing home care agencies, understanding pricing, or evaluating whether an agency or an independently hired caregiver is the safer fit.

Senior Group Home Placement

Families who want a smaller, quieter, more home-like residential option for a senior than a large assisted living or memory care community typically offers, especially where a higher staff-to-resident ratio, a familiar household routine, or a calmer environment would serve the person better.

Live-In Home Care

Someone who should not be alone but sleeps through most nights, and whose family values one familiar caregiver over a rotating team.

Senior Home Care

An older adult who is managing at home but finding parts of the day harder than they used to be, and whose family wants support in place before a fall or a hospital stay forces a bigger decision.

Homemaker Services

Someone who can manage their own personal care but cannot keep up with the household, and families working through a Medicaid or waiver plan where homemaker hours are authorized separately from personal care.

Skilled Nursing Care at Home

Someone whose care includes tasks a licensed nurse must perform, whether after surgery or hospitalization, while managing a complex condition, or as part of long-term care at home.

Home Health Care

Someone recovering from surgery, a hospital stay, a stroke, or a fall who needs licensed therapy to regain function, and who can receive it at home rather than travelling to an outpatient clinic.

Physical Therapy at Home

Someone regaining mobility after surgery, a fall, a stroke, or a hospital stay, particularly when travelling to an outpatient clinic is difficult or unsafe.

Occupational Therapy at Home

Someone who can move around but is struggling with the tasks of daily life, whether after a stroke, surgery, or a decline in hand function, memory, or vision.

Speech Therapy at Home

Someone whose speech, language, or swallowing has been affected by a stroke, brain injury, dementia, or a progressive condition such as Parkinson's disease.

Independent Senior Living

An older adult who is broadly independent but is tired of maintaining a house, eating alone, or driving everywhere, and who wants neighbours their own age close by.

Senior Group Home

An older adult who needs daily hands-on care and does better in a small, quiet, home-like setting than in a large community, and families looking for something between in-home care and assisted living.

Group Home for Adults and Children with IDD or DD

Children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities who need daily support in a residential setting, and families planning long-term care beyond what they can provide at home.

Supportive Living

An Illinois resident who needs daily personal care and oversight but not the level of nursing a nursing home provides, and who wants to keep a private apartment and a measure of independence.

Assisted Living

An older adult who needs hands-on help most days and should not be alone overnight, but who does not need the skilled nursing a nursing home provides.

Adult Day Care

An older adult who should not be alone all day but does not need residential care, and the family caregiver who needs to work, rest, or keep their own appointments.

Hospice Supportive Care

A family caring for someone on hospice at home who has discovered that the hospice team visits rather than stays, and who needs help through the hours in between.

Adult Home Care

Adults of any age who need hands-on help at home: younger adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities, spinal cord or brain injuries, multiple sclerosis, ALS, or other progressive conditions, adults recovering from surgery or a stroke, and older adults who need the same support.

Concierge Home Care

Families who want one accountable person managing the care rather than a schedule of shifts, adult children coordinating a parent's care from another city, and people whose medical situation is complex enough that someone needs to be holding all of it at once.

Parkinson's Care at Home

Someone living with Parkinson's who needs help that flexes with their symptoms rather than arriving on a fixed schedule, and the family member who has been absorbing the shortfall, often for years.

Pediatric Home Care

Families of children with medical complexity, congenital conditions, or developmental disabilities who need clinical or practical support at home, and parents who cannot sustain round-the-clock care alone.

Hospice Care

Someone with a terminal illness who has decided that comfort matters more than continued attempts at cure, and their family, who are supported as part of the care rather than alongside it.

Not sure which service fits your situation?

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