Distance is the enemy of company. In a county as spread out as Will, an older person who no longer drives can be ten minutes from a senior lunch, a church and a daughter’s house and effectively cut off from all three. Senior companion services Will County families arrange through Guided with Grace solve the distance first: a screened companion with a car, on a regular schedule, who turns a parent’s shrinking radius back into a week with places in it.
Our companion care is company, conversation and errands, and in Will County it is also transport. The visit follows your parent’s interests; the companion supplies the time, the car and a second pair of hands.
Many Will County families start with companion visits and never need anything more. If bathing or dressing later becomes hard, personal care is added within the same visits, and if memory becomes the worry, our dementia-trained caregivers carry on the same relationship.
Isolation in Will County has a geography: farm roads outside Frankfort, subdivisions in Plainfield that empty out at eight, older neighborhoods in Joliet where the friends have died or moved.
In most of Will County, no car means no church, no store and no friends. A companion with a car gives them back.
Rural Will County can be beautiful and very quiet. A weekly visitor changes the shape of the week.
The street that raised a generation of kids is now strangers. A companion is a new person who actually comes back.
You are commuting or working long shifts. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons with a companion mean somebody sees your father.
The county has more places for an older person to go than most isolated parents realize; the companion’s job is to get them there.
The Senior Services Center of Will County at 251 North Center Street in Joliet, (815) 723-9713, runs Senior Community Cafes with monthly themed lunches in New Lenox at the Guy A. Sell Apartments on South Cedar Road and in Frankfort on Lincoln Highway, along with exercise classes, activities and a volunteer Senior Companion program for eligible residents. Township senior programs add more: the DuPage Township Levy Senior Center in Bolingbrook, the Plainfield Township Community Center on South DesPlaines Street, the Joliet Community Center’s Tuesday seniors’ lunch, and the Village of Romeoville’s Nickel Bingo and Grub Club restaurant outings. A companion can get your parent to any of them and stay.
For the days a companion is not scheduled, Access Will County Dial-a-Ride serves residents 60 and older anywhere in the county, registered through the Will County Mobility Manager at (815) 774-6346, and townships such as Joliet Township run their own Dial-A-Ride. AgeGuide’s Family Caregiver Support Program (1-800-528-2000) is there for the son or daughter who has been making the weekly drive. Most hospital appointments are at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet or UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook, and for children working an hour away, a companion who goes into the appointment and writes down what was said is a real comfort.
Guided with Grace provides companion visits across Will County from our office in Naperville. Learn more about the agency.
A new face every week is simply a new stranger every week, so the pairing is made on interests and temperament first and we group companions by area, which is what lets the same one keep driving out to Frankfort or Lockport. Every companion is screened, background checked and trained before placement, and Guided with Grace is a licensed and insured non-medical home care agency in Illinois.
A pairing that does not click gets changed, no questions asked. Visit logistics are covered on the FAQ page.
There is nothing to sign up to for the long term and nothing to buy.
Call (630) 608-3956 or write via the contact page: where they live, what they enjoy and where they have stopped going.
We drive out to meet your parent and find out what a good afternoon would look like to them.
A weekly or twice-weekly slot on the quietest days, subject to our minimum hours per visit.
Commonly within a few days, with the companion already briefed on your parent and a first errand or outing in mind.
Our companions cover Will County from Bolingbrook to Frankfort. These are the communities we visit most often; call to confirm coverage elsewhere in the county.
Companion visits pair naturally with our other services across the county.
Our companions also visit DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties.
Usually, as long as it begins gradually: visits at the house to start, then a short trip to a place he used to go. A weekly outing tends to be a habit again within a couple of months.
Yes, subject to the vehicle being insured and roadworthy; otherwise the companion drives their own car. We confirm the arrangement in the plan.
The Senior Companion program is a free volunteer service for eligible residents, and we recommend applying. Ours is a professional, scheduled service: a screened companion who drives, cooks, runs errands and keeps the family posted.
Yes, and staying is the point. A companion who eats with her, meets the other regulars and chats about it on the drive back is how a monthly lunch becomes something she looks forward to.
No. Companion visits are non-medical and do not involve hands-on care; if that becomes necessary, personal care is added as part of the same visits.
That is what we schedule for. Teams are organized by area so the same companion can keep coming, and any stand-in arrives briefed.
Yes. For many older people the weekend is the loneliest stretch of the week, and evenings the loneliest hours, so we schedule for both, subject to our minimum hours per visit.
Tell us where your parent lives and where they have stopped going. Call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation.
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