CALIFORNIA Home Care BLOG

Around one in six working adults is helping care for an older relative, and most of them haven't told their employer. If that's you, you already know the shape of it. What follows is what actually helps, and what usually breaks first. What breaks first It's rarely the...

This is usually the question underneath the question about price. Families want a number, and nobody can give them one without knowing what the days look like. Here's how to work it out for yourself before anyone quotes you anything. Start with the hard parts of the...

Most falls at home happen doing ordinary things in familiar rooms. Getting out of the shower. Reaching for something on a high shelf. Crossing a dark hallway at two in the morning. Almost none of it needs building work. Here's what to look at, room by room, and what...

Most families call two or three agencies, get quoted an hourly rate by each, and pick one. The rate is the easiest thing to compare and the least useful. These are the questions worth asking instead. The answers vary more between agencies than the price does. Are your...

Families worry about this more than the cost. Not what it costs, but what it feels like having someone new in your mother's house, and whether she'll hate it. Here's what the first fortnight usually looks like. Before anyone starts It begins with the free in-home...

Most families ask this question third or fourth, after they've already decided they need help. It's worth asking first, because the answer changes what's possible. Here's how in-home care actually gets paid for, and which of these is likely to apply to you. Private...

Almost every family hits this, and it's rarely really about the care. One of you lives nearby and sees everything. Another visits twice a year and sees a good afternoon. One is exhausted. One feels shut out. Money is in there somewhere, and so is thirty years of...

Families worry about losing control of this. That someone will arrive with a standard package, decide what your mother can and can't do, and take over a house she's run for fifty years. That isn't how it works, or how it should. Here's what actually goes into a care...

Most families don't decide to get help. Something happens, and then they decide. Knowing which moments usually force the issue makes it easier to act before one of them does, rather than after. Here are the five that come up most often, and what's actually worth doing...