Your mother spent forty years being useful: the church kitchen, the school board, the food pantry, the neighbor who drove everyone to the doctor. Now she cannot drive, and the thing she misses is not company; it is purpose. Senior companion services Kendall County families arrange with Guided with Grace can be built around that: a companion who helps her keep doing for others, whether that is baking for the pantry, sorting donations, or getting to the volunteer shift she has not been able to reach in a year.
Our companion care is company, conversation, errands and a car, and for a parent who has always been the helper it works best when the visit has a point. The companion supplies the driving and the second pair of hands; your mother supplies the mission.
A doer like your mother may need nothing more for years. If bathing becomes difficult, personal care fits into the same visits, and if her memory starts to slip our dementia-trained caregivers can keep her involved in the causes she cares about.
In a county this spread out, losing the car means losing the reason to get up. These are the people we most often meet.
She does not want to be looked after; she wants to be useful. A companion who helps her keep giving is company she will accept.
In Plano, Newark or Bristol, no car means no church, no store and no friends. A companion with a car gives them back.
Alone at the end of a township road since the funeral. A weekly visitor changes the shape of the week.
You are gone from seven to seven. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons with a companion mean somebody sees your father.
A companion visit built on purpose needs places to be purposeful, and Kendall County has them.
The City of Yorkville’s senior programs at the Beecher Center on Game Farm Road include lunches, bingo three days a week and exercise classes, and the center is also home to an AmeriCorps RSVP volunteer coordinator, which is where a parent who wants to keep giving can find a role. Senior Services Associates works from the same building (630-553-5777), runs a volunteer Senior Companion program of its own for eligible residents over 60, and holds monthly visits at Deer Run Apartments in Plano. The Oswego Senior & Community Center at 3525 US Highway 34 (630-554-5602) offers congregate meals, classes and screenings across the county. A companion can get your parent to any of these and stay.
On days without a companion, registered riders can book Kendall Area Transit (1-877-IGO-4KAT), which runs on weekdays from early morning to early evening and knocks a dollar off fares for anyone 60 or older. The relative who has been doing the driving can get support through AgeGuide (1-800-528-2000), and a companion who goes into Rush Copley appointments and takes notes saves you a phone call.
Guided with Grace provides companion visits across Kendall County from our Naperville office. Learn more about the agency.
A companion for a woman who ran the church kitchen has to be capable and unbothered by being told how to do things, so we match on temperament and energy as much as interests, and we organize our companions by area so the same person keeps coming to Plano or Minooka. 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.
Tell us if the pairing is wrong and we will find someone else. See the FAQ page for details.
Start with one ride to one place and see how it goes.
Call (630) 608-3956 or write via the contact page: her causes, her church, her habits, and what she has had to give up.
We sit down with her and ask what she would do this week if she could get there.
A visit or two a week, each with a destination, within our minimum hours per visit.
Normally within a few days, and the companion comes knowing her volunteering history.
Companions visit throughout Kendall County. Most of our companion clients live in these towns; phone us about anywhere else.
Other services that sit well with companion visits.
Our companions also visit Kane, Will and DuPage counties.
Yes, if the visits are built around what she wants to do rather than what she needs. A companion who drives her to the food pantry and helps her bake for it is not looking after her; she is looking after the pantry, with help.
Yes. The companion drives, helps while there if that is welcome, and brings her home. Staying is usually the point.
Senior Services Associates’ volunteers are free and well worth applying for. We are different: a paid professional who comes on fixed days, drives, cooks and runs errands, and tells the family how things are.
If the car is insured and safe, yes; if not, the companion uses their own. Either way it is written into the plan.
No. Companions do not do hands-on care; if she comes to need help washing or dressing, personal care can be added to the same visits.
Yes. We choose companions who live near your parent so the same one can keep coming, and a substitute is briefed first.
Yes. Sunday afternoons in the country can be the longest of the week, and we schedule for them within our minimum hours per visit.
Tell us what your parent used to do for others and what stopped it. Call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation.
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