When Is It Time to Consider Home Care?
A practical family checklist for recognizing when an older adult may benefit from non-medical home care.
Open guidePractical guidance
Make care decisions with greater clarity.
Use these plain-language guides to organize questions, prepare the home, compare schedules, and plan the next conversation with your family or healthcare team.
Family guides and checklists
Useful help for real care decisions
Print a checklist, share it with family, or use it to prepare for a consultation.
Choosing the Right Home Care Schedule
Compare hourly, extended-day, overnight, live-in, and 24-hour non-medical home care schedules.
Open guidePreparing for the First Day of Home Care
A family checklist for preparing the home, care instructions, contacts, routines, and expectations before a caregiver begins.
Open guideHospital-to-Home Family Checklist
A practical checklist for families preparing for discharge from a hospital, rehabilitation center, or other care setting.
Open guideHome Safety and Fall-Risk Checklist
A room-by-room checklist to help families identify common home hazards for older adults and discuss fall risk with healthcare professionals.
Open guideDementia Home Safety Checklist
A practical home safety checklist for families supporting someone living with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.
Open guideKnow the difference
Non-medical home care works alongside healthcare.
Caregivers can assist with personal routines, companionship, meals, light housekeeping, errands, reminders, supervision, and other activities in the care plan.
Medical assessment, nursing procedures, therapy, medication changes, and emergency treatment belong to licensed healthcare professionals.
Talk through your situation
You do not need to choose a schedule alone.
Tell us what is happening, when help is needed, and which routines feel difficult. We will explain the non-medical options.
Request a free consultationFrequently asked questions
Quick answers for families
Look for repeated changes in daily routines, safety, mobility, nutrition, isolation, memory, or family caregiver strain. Sudden or serious changes should be discussed with a healthcare professional.
No. We provide non-medical home care. Nursing, therapy, clinical assessment, wound care, injections, and medication changes require the appropriate licensed healthcare professional.
Yes. Each guide includes a print button. Your browser can also save the guide as a PDF.