In-home care · Omaha metro
Personal care assistance
This is the help that is hardest to ask for and hardest to accept, which is why it matters most who does it. Washing, dressing and using the bathroom are not tasks to be got through — they are the part of the day where a person either keeps their dignity or quietly loses it.
What a caregiver actually does
Not a category — the specific things that happen while somebody is in the house.
- Bathing, showering and bed baths, at the pace they set
- Dressing, and choosing clothes rather than being put in them
- Toileting, continence care and discreet clean-up
- Grooming, shaving, hair and nail care
- Skin checks, and telling you early about a sore that is starting
- Getting up in the morning and settled at night
Is it time?
What is usually happening when families call about this
If two or three of these sound like your house, it is worth a phone call. It costs nothing to ask.
They have stopped bathing as often, and it is becoming noticeable
Clothes are being worn several days running
There have been accidents, and nobody wants to talk about it
A daughter or son is doing personal care and it is changing the relationship
How personal care assistance gets paid for
Three different situations, three different answers. One of these is yours.
Please read this bit
We are a non-medical home care company
That means our caregivers help with daily life — washing, dressing, meals, mobility, housekeeping, company and getting to appointments. It is skilled, trained, background-checked help, and for most families it is exactly what is needed.
If any of that is what you need, say so and we will tell you straight — often the answer is a home health agency or hospice for the clinical side, with us doing the daily hours around it. We work alongside both, and we would rather point you to the right place than take a booking we cannot do properly.
What we do not do
- No nursing care, injections or IVs
- We remind and prompt about medication; we never administer it
- No wound care, catheters or clinical procedures
- No physical, occupational or speech therapy
- No diagnosing, and nothing that needs a nurse or a doctor
Questions families ask
- My mother would be mortified. How do you handle that?
- Slowly, and usually not on the first visit. Most of our starts are companionship and a cup of tea for a week or two while she decides she likes the person. The personal care follows once there is somebody in the house she trusts, not before.
- Can we ask for a female caregiver?
- Yes, and most families do. Tell us at the first call and it is arranged — this is not an awkward request, it is a normal one.
Families who needed this usually needed one of these too
Dementia & Alzheimer’s care
Caregivers who understand repetition, sundowning and refusal, and do not take any of it personally.
Companionship
Conversation, games, reading, a walk. Loneliness does measurable harm and this is the treatment for it.
Respite care
We take over for a few hours or a few days so the person doing the caring can sleep, work or leave the house.
Personal care assistance in
Not sure whether personal care assistance is what you need?
Tell us what is going on and we will tell you honestly — including when the answer is somebody other than us.