A week has 168 hours. A daughter who works full time can cover perhaps forty of them, a son on the other side of the county twenty more, a neighbor a handful, and that still leaves a hundred hours in which a parent who cannot be alone is alone. 24 hour home care Will County families arrange through Guided with Grace is the answer to that arithmetic: every one of the 168 hours covered by a screened caregiver, in the house your parent knows, with the family free to fill the hours they choose rather than the ones they must.
Continuous care is our personal care and companion work extended across the whole week. Nobody can be safely on duty for all 168 of them, so the week is divided among a small team who brief one another in writing at fixed changeover times; you see that rota on paper before it starts.
The arithmetic changes as your parent recovers. Many Will County families step down to overnight care or scheduled daytime personal care within weeks; those facing advanced dementia or the end of life keep continuous coverage as long as it is needed.
Families arrive at continuous care when the hours can no longer be covered by relatives and the only other option is a facility. Four situations account for most of the calls.
Silver Cross, Saint Joseph and AdventHealth Bolingbrook all write it. A scheduled team is how a family with jobs honors it.
A second or third fall, especially one that ended in an ambulance, is the point at which gaps in coverage stop being acceptable.
When a parent is up and wandering at 3 a.m., visits cannot cover the risk. A caregiver in the house every hour is what keeps them out of memory care.
Hospice nurses handle the medical side. Our caregivers cover the hours in between, so the family can sit with a parent instead of staffing the house.
Round-the-clock care nearly always begins in a hospital hallway, and Will County has several.
Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook on Remington Boulevard and the Endeavor Health Edward Emergency Center on 127th Street in Plainfield are where most Will County residents are treated. When a discharge planner at any of them says your parent must not be left alone, the best thing you can do is phone us while your parent is still on the ward: with a few days’ notice we can work toward the first caregiver meeting the car and the rest of the week already on the rota.
The Senior Services Center of Will County at 251 North Center Street in Joliet, (815) 723-9713 or (800) 892-1412, coordinates the Illinois Community Care Program for residents 60 and older who qualify, which can add an emergency home response system or a block of funded hours to a private arrangement, with outreach points at the Lockport Township building and the Frankfort Township office for the south and east of the county. AgeGuide’s Family Caregiver Support Program (1-800-528-2000) supports the relative who has been covering the hours until now, and the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter answers its Helpline, 1-800-272-3900, at every hour of the day and night. Access Will County Dial-a-Ride, registered through (815) 774-6346, covers follow-up appointments for residents 60 and older.
We provide continuous care throughout Will County from our office in Naperville. Learn more about Guided with Grace.
Covering 168 hours with as few people as possible is a scheduling problem, and we solve it by area: caregivers in the Joliet and Shorewood area cover Joliet and Shorewood homes, and the team for Bolingbrook and Romeoville stays there, so the same faces return to the same house. Every caregiver on the rota is screened, background checked and trained, and Guided with Grace is a licensed and insured non-medical home care agency in Illinois.
A single written plan goes with the shift and is read aloud at each changeover, and we check in with the family regularly so that hours come off the rota as soon as your parent can safely spare them. See the FAQ page for more.
From Bolingbrook to Frankfort the process is the same, and when a discharge is imminent we work to the hospital’s timeline.
Ring (630) 608-3956 or use the contact page: where your parent lives, what has happened and any discharge date.
Your parent’s needs across the day and night, and the house itself.
A caregiver schedule with no gaps and a single plan for everyone on it.
Care can often begin within a few days of the consultation; where there is a discharge, we try to have the first caregiver waiting at the house.
Continuous care is available across Will County. These are the communities we serve most often; call to confirm coverage elsewhere in the county.
As the arithmetic eases, one of these usually replaces continuous coverage.
Continuous care is also available in DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties.
It can be either. Some families keep the hours they want, such as evenings and Sundays, and we cover the remainder; others hand over all 168 so they can visit as family rather than staff. We build the schedule around what you choose.
The fewest that can cover every hour. Because teams are organized by area, the same faces return; the family meets each of them, changeovers are at set times, and the plan is shared by everyone.
No. A live-in arrangement still has eight or so uncovered hours while that caregiver sleeps. Continuous care fills all 168 with someone who is on duty, including at 3 a.m.
Frequently, as long as we know the date ahead of time; we build the first days of the rota around the discharge.
No. Ours is non-medical care. Injections, wound care and other clinical work stay with home health or hospice nurses, and our caregivers take their instructions.
Yes. Funded hours or an emergency home response system arranged through the Senior Services Center of Will County can sit inside a private continuous arrangement.
Joliet, Plainfield, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Lockport, New Lenox, Shorewood and Frankfort are the towns we serve most often. Call and we will confirm coverage anywhere else in Will County.
If your parent cannot be left alone, call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation and we will do the arithmetic with you.
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