Home support & homemaking

Nutrition is the quiet one

Weight loss in an older adult is rarely about appetite alone. It is about a stove that has become frightening, a can that cannot be opened, a meal that is too much effort to make for one person. By the time it shows on a scale, it has usually been going on for months.

Cooking with someone, rather than for them, keeps a skill alive and makes the meal something they want to eat. A caregiver notes what actually gets finished, not what gets served, and that gets reported.

Housekeeping, honestly scoped

We do light housekeeping as part of care: the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom, the routes people walk. We are not a cleaning company, and pretending otherwise would mean caregivers spending an hour on a bathroom while the person they came to see sits alone in another room.

If a home needs a deep clean, that is a separate job for a cleaning service, and we will tell you so.

The hazards nobody sees any more

Every home has hazards its occupants stopped noticing years ago: the loose runner at the top of the stairs, the extension cord across the hall, the light bulb that went two months ago.

Caregivers report what they notice. Small things we fix on the spot; the rest we raise with you, with a suggestion.