Home Care Services
Types of Senior Home Care in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte
Care By You offers several types of nonmedical senior home care in Sarasota, Manatee and Charlotte Counties. This page explains each one and helps your family choose.
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Types of Care We Offer
All of our services are nonmedical homemaker and companion care. We build each plan of care around your loved one and their needs.
What We Do Not Provide
- Personal care, such as bathing, dressing or toileting
- Medical or nursing care
- Giving or managing medication
Care By You provides nonmedical homemaker and companion care only. If your loved one needs personal or medical care, call us and we will talk through your options.
Why Seniors Choose Care at Home
Most seniors want the comfort and independence of their own home. As a family member, you want to keep them happy and safe there for as long as you can.
Home care needs vary a great deal. Some seniors need help with household tasks, meals and errands. Others mostly need company. Some need someone with them around the clock. Your family’s budget and lifestyle also shape how much care makes sense.
Our scheduling is flexible. Care can run a few hours a day, up to 24 hours a day. We are available 24 hours a day to take your call.
The Types of Nonmedical Home Care We Offer
Each type of care meets a different need. Here is what each one covers:
- Companionship: a friendly caregiver visits regularly to sit, chat and reminisce. Your loved one has support even when family lives far away.
- Concierge services: help with special requests that fall outside a normal plan of care.
- Respite care: a break for family caregivers, for a few hours or a few days, while your loved one stays comfortable at home.
- Medication reminders: friendly reminders that help your loved one remember their medicines. They are useful when there are several prescriptions.
- Homemaker help: household tasks, errands, meal preparation and light housekeeping.
- 24 hour care: round the clock care at home, with caregivers usually working 8 hour or 12 hour shifts.
How to Choose the Right Type of Care
Start with what your loved one finds hard each day. If the house, meals and errands are slipping, homemaker help may be enough. If they feel lonely, companionship can bring regular company into their week.
If you look after a parent yourself and need time to rest, respite care lets a caregiver pick up where you left off. If your loved one takes several medicines, reminders can help them remember. If they should not be alone at any time, 24 hour care may be the right step.
Many families begin with a few hours of support and adjust care as needs change. You do not have to get it all right on day one.
How We Build Your Plan of Care
Every plan starts with a free in home assessment. We meet your loved one in person, learn about their needs and check that we can meet them within our scope of care.
We then write a personalised plan around your loved one, your family’s goals and their doctor’s goals for health and safety. A plan might include grocery shopping and meal preparation with a caregiver, a scheduled walk during the day and friendly medication reminders.
We match each caregiver to your loved one’s personality. People get on better with someone who shares their likes. If a match does not feel right, you can ask for a different caregiver.
Talk to Care by You
Care By You is a locally owned, nonmedical home care agency. We are registered with the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) as a homemaker and companion services provider. We also hold a BBB A+ rating.
We do not provide personal care or medical care, and our help with medicines is limited to reminders. Call 941.451.0696 or 941.334.0941, or email admin@carebyyoufl.com, to book your free in home assessment.
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