Nine services, one nurse-written plan, the same familiar faces

Choose a single service or combine several — care is billed hourly and adjusted as needs change, with no long-term contract.

Services overview

Support that scales with the person, not the paperwork

Most families begin with a few companionship or personal-care hours a week and expand from there. Because Iris Colon writes and reviews every plan, adding clinical oversight later does not mean starting over with a new provider — the same caregivers stay, and the plan simply deepens. Everything below can be scheduled mornings, evenings, overnights, weekends, or holidays.

Personal Care Companion Care Medication Reminders Nursing Support Meal Preparation Light Housekeeping Transportation Respite Care

Group one

Personal & Companion Care

The two services families request most often, and the two that most directly protect independence and mood.

Personal Care

Personal care covers the intimate daily routines that usually become difficult first — and the ones people are most reluctant to ask for help with. Our caregivers are trained to make that help feel unremarkable: equipment set out in advance, the room warmed, the door closed, conversation kept easy and ordinary while the task gets done.

Safety technique is what separates competent personal care from risky improvisation. Caregivers use proper body mechanics for transfers, position gait belts correctly, keep bathroom floors dry, and recognize the early skin changes that precede a pressure injury. Where a client's mobility has changed, our nurse supervisor updates the plan and re-trains the caregiver on site rather than by memo.

Bathing, showering, and bed baths
Dressing, grooming, shaving, and hair care
Oral and denture care
Toileting and incontinence support
Safe transfers, repositioning, and walker or cane assistance
Skin integrity checks and pressure-injury prevention

Companion Care

Companion care treats isolation as the health condition it is. Prolonged loneliness measurably worsens cognition, appetite, sleep, and blood pressure, and it is the most common reason a family notices their parent 'slipping' without any new diagnosis to explain it. A dependable weekly presence reverses a surprising amount of that decline.

Visits are built around what the client actually enjoys — cards, crosswords, gardening, sorting photographs, the ballgame, a walk to the bakery, a phone call to a grandchild set up and dialed. Caregivers also serve as an early-warning system, noticing appetite loss, new confusion, unopened mail, or bruises, and reporting them the same day.

Conversation, shared meals, and games or hobbies
Neighborhood walks and light exercise encouragement
Accompaniment to worship, clubs, and social events
Help with phone calls, letters, and video calls to family
Wellness observation with same-day reporting
Mail sorting, calendar reminders, and appointment prompts

Group two

Health & Medical Support

Clinical oversight layered on top of daily care, for clients managing prescriptions, recovery, or chronic conditions.

Medication Reminders

Most avoidable hospital readmissions in older adults trace back to medication errors: a dose skipped, a dose doubled, a blood thinner taken with the wrong food, a prescription that quietly ran out on a holiday weekend. Our reminder routine exists to close every one of those gaps without taking control away from the client.

Caregivers set up weekly planners from the current prescription list, prompt each dose at the correct time with the right food or fluid, watch for side effects, and document every prompt in the care record. Our office coordinates refills with your pharmacy and flags discrepancies to the prescribing physician, so families are never the last to know that something changed.

Weekly pill planner setup and verification
Timed reminders with food or fluid requirements
Side-effect observation and same-day escalation
Refill tracking and pharmacy coordination
Documented adherence records for physicians and insurers
Blood pressure and blood glucose logging where ordered

Nursing Support

Licensed nurses provide the clinical spine of our service. A nurse completes the initial assessment, writes the care plan, trains the assigned caregiver on condition-specific needs, and returns for quality visits during the first month and each quarter thereafter — more often when health status is changing.

Nursing visits cover vital sign monitoring, wound and ostomy care, diabetic management, catheter care, post-surgical protocols, and direct coordination with physicians, discharge planners, and physical therapists. When something looks wrong, a nurse — not a scheduler — decides what happens next.

Iris Colon-led assessment and care-plan authorship
Vital signs, weight, and symptom monitoring
Wound, ostomy, and catheter care
Diabetic and blood-pressure management support
Post-surgical and post-hospital recovery protocols
Coordination with physicians, PT, and discharge planners

Group three

Household & Lifestyle Support

The practical, unglamorous work that decides whether staying home is actually sustainable.

Meal Preparation

Appetite fades quietly with age, medication, and solitude, and undernourishment shows up as fatigue, confusion, and slow healing long before anyone connects it to the kitchen. Caregivers plan menus around real medical requirements and real preferences, then shop, cook, and portion food the client looks forward to.

Diets we routinely support include low-sodium cardiac, diabetic, renal, low-residue, and modified-texture or pureed plans. Family recipes are encouraged, meals are eaten in company whenever possible, and food and fluid intake is logged so dehydration is caught early rather than in an emergency room.

Weekly menu planning around medical diets
Grocery shopping and pantry rotation
Cooking, portioning, and freezer meal prep
Feeding assistance and modified-texture meals
Hydration prompts and intake logging
Kitchen cleanup and food-safety checks

Light Housekeeping

A clean, uncluttered home is one of the cheapest fall-prevention tools available. Caregivers keep walkways clear, floors dry, cords tucked, and bathrooms sanitary, while handling the ordinary upkeep that becomes physically unmanageable long before anyone admits it.

Nothing is thrown away, reorganized, or moved without asking. The client's system stays the client's system, because a spotless home where nobody can find the scissors is not an improvement.

Dishes, counters, and kitchen sanitizing
Bathroom cleaning and disinfecting
Laundry, linens, and bed making
Vacuuming, sweeping, and dusting
Trash, recycling, and mail management
Trip-hazard removal and lighting checks

Transportation

Giving up driving shrinks a life fast. Caregivers restore that range, driving clients to medical appointments, dialysis, therapy, the pharmacy, the grocery store, worship, and family gatherings — with door-through-door assistance rather than a drop at the curb.

At appointments the caregiver can accompany the client inside, take notes, and relay instructions to the family the same day. Drivers carry current insurance, their motor vehicle records are re-checked annually, and mileage appears transparently on the invoice.

Physician, dialysis, and therapy appointments
Pharmacy pickups and grocery trips
Worship services, clubs, and family visits
Door-through-door escort and wheelchair loading
Appointment note-taking and family relay
Insured drivers with annually verified records

Respite Care

Respite exists for the family caregiver who has not had an uninterrupted week — or night — in years. Coverage can be a scheduled afternoon each week, a weekend, or a full vacation, and it is arranged around your routine rather than ours.

We learn the household rhythm before the first solo shift: nap windows, food preferences, favorite chair, television schedule, the phrases that calm and the ones that agitate. You should return to a calm home and a settled loved one, with a written summary of everything that happened while you were gone.

Scheduled weekly or monthly relief blocks
Overnight, weekend, and vacation coverage
Sleep-shift or awake-night options
Routine shadowing before solo shifts
Written summaries of each respite period
Emergency backup coverage on short notice

Not sure what level of care you need?

Book a free in-home assessment. A nurse will tell you honestly what would help — including when the answer is fewer hours than you expected.

Book a free assessment Call +1 (617) 852-0709