CALIFORNIA Home Care BLOG
California Home Care Insights and Advice
How Does a Family Actually Sign Up for GUIDE?
Signing up for GUIDE starts with your parent's doctor, not with a home care agency. Ask the doctor about it, because that conversation is where it begins. That's the whole answer, and it's the part that surprises people. You hear about GUIDE from a friend...
My Mom Has Dementia and Gets Upset With New People
The first visit is kept short and low-key, with a family member there, and the caregiver follows your mother's lead instead of arriving with a list of jobs. After that, the same caregivers keep coming so she sees a face she knows, and if the match isn't right,...
What Does a Care Navigator Actually Do?
A care navigator is one person who gets to know your family's situation and stays with you, so you stop explaining it from the beginning to a new voice every time. They help you work out what your parent needs, prepare for appointments, and find local support that...
The Long-Term Care Policy Your Parent Might Have Forgotten About
If your parent worked for the state of California, a county, a city or a school district, there's a real chance they were able to buy a long-term care policy through work years ago, and many people did. Families often have no idea one exists until somebody goes...
What Does In-Home Care Look Like in Laguna Woods Village?
In-home care in Laguna Woods Village usually means a caregiver who comes to your parent's manor or condo for a few hours at a time, helping with the parts of the day that have gotten harder, so they can keep living the life they chose when they moved there. It...
In-Home Care for Adults Under 65 With Disabilities
Almost everything written about in-home care is written about seniors. The photos are of gray-haired people in armchairs, the advice is about dementia and falls, and the whole thing assumes the person needing help is in their eighties. That leaves out a lot of...
We Already Have Caregivers. Can We Still Join GUIDE?
Somebody already comes to the house. They help your mother get up, get washed and dressed, make her breakfast, and they're there through the morning. It's working. Then you hear about Medicare's GUIDE program, and the first thought is usually that it's...
What to Do After an Elderly Parent Falls
She tells you three days later, and only because you asked. She's fine, she says, it was nothing, she went down in the kitchen and got herself back up. What you do in the first hour after a fall matters, and so does the house. But what happens in the six weeks...
How People Actually Pay for Home Care
Almost every family starts in the same place. They assume Medicare covers it, they spend a week or two operating on that assumption, and then somebody tells them it doesn't. That week is expensive, because it's usually the week a decision needed making. So...
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