Your father has lived alone in the same Geneva house since your mother died in 2009, and he likes it that way: his chair, his radio, nobody touching the thermostat. Now the hospital says he cannot be alone at all, and the idea of strangers in the house around the clock horrifies him almost as much as a facility would. 24 hour home care Kane County families arrange with Guided with Grace is designed with that man in mind: continuous coverage that respects a private person’s home, his routines and his say over who comes through the door.
Continuous care is our personal care and companion work carried on without a gap, and in a private person’s house it has to be done quietly. Since one person cannot safely cover a full day and night, a small group of caregivers shares the hours and hands over in writing; we agree how that works in his house, room by room, before it starts.
Most private men want the house back to themselves as soon as possible, and that is usually the plan: once he is steady, the rota drops to nights only or a morning personal care visit. With advanced dementia or at the end of life, full coverage stays.
For a parent who has lived alone for years, the question is not only safety but dignity. These are the situations where continuous care at home is usually the answer.
Fifteen years alone in Geneva or Elgin. A facility means losing everything he has arranged around himself; a care team means keeping it.
Discharge planners across the county write it. A team scheduled around the discharge meets it from the first night.
One fall is bad luck; three means the gaps between visits are the problem. Constant presence closes them.
Night waking and wandering do not respect a schedule. Someone always present is the alternative to memory care.
Round-the-clock care nearly always begins in a hospital hallway, and Kane County has five of them.
Rush Copley Medical Center and Mercy Medical Center in Aurora, Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva, and Advocate Sherman Hospital and Saint Joseph Hospital in Elgin are where most Kane County residents are treated. If a discharge planner at any of them says your parent must not be alone, calling us before the discharge date is the most useful thing you can do: it lets us plan toward having the first caregiver in the house when your parent arrives and the rest of the schedule already set.
For residents 60 and older who qualify, Senior Services Associates coordinates state-funded in-home services and emergency home response systems under the Illinois Community Care Program, which some families layer with private continuous care. AgeGuide’s Family Caregiver Support Program (1-800-528-2000) looks after the relative who has been holding everything together, the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter’s Helpline (1-800-272-3900) is staffed around the clock for families dealing with dementia, and Ride in Kane, coordinated countywide through (630) 762-2600, covers residents 65 and older for follow-up appointments.
We provide continuous care along the whole Fox Valley from our office in Naperville. Learn more about Guided with Grace.
A private person can tolerate continuous care if the people are few and the same. We keep the group as small as safe coverage allows, introduce each caregiver to your father before they take a shift, and organize the team by area so the people covering Geneva are Geneva people. Each caregiver has cleared screening, a background check and training, and Guided with Grace holds an Illinois license and insurance as a non-medical home care provider.
One written plan travels from caregiver to caregiver, including the small things he cares about, and the family gets regular check-ins so coverage steps down as soon as it safely can. Our FAQ page has more.
Whether he is leaving Delnor, Sherman or Rush Copley, the steps are the same.
Phone (630) 608-3956 or write via the contact page: the town, the discharge date if there is one, and what your father will and will not put up with.
We work through his day and night hour by hour and look at the house, the stairs and his chair.
The few caregivers who will cover him, the hours each will work, and his routines written into their plan.
Care can often begin within a few days of the consultation, and we aim for the first caregiver to be there when your parent comes home.
We staff full-time care in every Fox Valley town. These are where most of our Kane County clients live; phone about anywhere else.
As your parent recovers, one of these usually replaces continuous coverage.
Continuous care is also available in DuPage, Will and Kendall counties.
Often better than families expect, if the group is small, introduced properly and follows his routines rather than imposing ours. Many private clients end up with strong opinions about which caregiver they like best, which is a good sign.
As few as safe coverage allows. Each is introduced before taking a shift, changeovers happen at fixed times, and one written plan covers his routines and preferences.
No. A live-in caregiver is entitled to a night’s sleep, so for part of every night nobody is watching. Continuous care keeps an alert caregiver on duty through those hours too.
Frequently, provided we hear the date early enough to line up his team.
No. Clinical work such as injections and wound care is done by home health or hospice nurses; our caregivers provide the non-medical care in between and follow the nurses’ instructions.
Seldom. The usual pattern is a few weeks of full coverage after a fall or a hospital stay, then nights or mornings only; with advanced dementia or at the end of life it may carry on.
Aurora, Elgin, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, North Aurora, South Elgin and Sugar Grove are the towns we serve most often. Call and we will confirm coverage anywhere else in Kane County.
If your parent cannot be left alone and will not leave home, call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation and we will plan coverage he can live with.
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