Your mother lives alone in New Lenox. You live in Bolingbrook. When the phone rings at 3 a.m. it is forty minutes of I-355 and Route 30 before you know whether she fell, or wandered, or just could not find the light switch. An overnight caregiver for elderly Will County parents from Guided with Grace ends those drives: someone in her house through the night, awake or resting within earshot, who can be at her bedside in forty seconds rather than forty minutes.
Overnight help is built on our personal care training and takes one of two shapes: a caregiver who is awake all night and checks on your mother at set intervals, or one who sleeps lightly in the next room and gets up when she does. We recommend one or the other after seeing how a typical night unfolds.
Nights are often the only hours a Will County family cannot cover. A parent who manages the day with a spouse or a companion may need nothing more than this. If the days become unsafe as well, 24-hour home care takes over every hour.
Distance makes nights harder in a county this size. These are the situations that bring families to us.
Lockport to Bolingbrook, Frankfort to Plainfield. You cannot keep crossing the county at night and working the next day.
Most of the falls we hear about in Will County happen between the bed and the bathroom in the dark. Someone to walk with changes that.
The hours after midnight are when a parent with dementia is most likely to head for the door. An awake caregiver is between her and it.
Silver Cross, Saint Joseph and AdventHealth Bolingbrook all discharge patients with the advice not to be alone overnight for a while. Tell us the date and the first night is covered.
No pendant or camera can help a parent up off the floor at 3 a.m.; a caregiver can, and Will County’s services fill in around her.
A stay at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook or the Endeavor Health Edward Emergency Center in Plainfield is what starts most overnight arrangements in this county; if the discharge team advises that your mother not be alone after dark, we work toward having a caregiver there on her first night back. Clinical care belongs to her home health nurses, and our caregivers carry out whatever instructions they leave.
The Senior Services Center of Will County at 251 North Center Street in Joliet, (815) 723-9713, can set up an emergency home response system for residents 60 and older who qualify under the Illinois Community Care Program, which is worth having on the nights you choose not to cover, and its outreach points at the Lockport Township building and the Frankfort Township office serve the south and east of the county. The son or daughter who has been doing the 3 a.m. drives can get counseling and respite through AgeGuide’s Family Caregiver Support Program (1-800-528-2000), the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter’s Helpline, 1-800-272-3900, answers at any hour for families dealing with dementia, and Access Will County Dial-a-Ride, registered through (815) 774-6346, gets residents 60 and older to early appointments.
We cover nights throughout Will County from our office in Naperville. Learn more about Guided with Grace.
Good night caregivers are a particular breed: calm, self-sufficient and unbothered by a wet bed or a wandering parent at 3 a.m. We assign nights only to caregivers like that, and we group them by area so the person covering a house in Frankfort or Shorewood can keep covering it. Every Guided with Grace caregiver is screened, background checked and trained, and we are a licensed and insured non-medical home care agency in Illinois.
Before the first night we write down the bedtime routine, what tends to happen in the small hours and how the morning should go, and every morning ends with a written summary for you. The FAQ page deals with the practical questions.
The process is identical in Joliet, Frankfort or Bolingbrook, whether you need every night or ten.
Call (630) 608-3956 or use the contact page. Where does your parent live, how often are they up, and what happens when they are?
We visit after dark to see the route from bed to bathroom, the lighting, the medications and how she usually sleeps.
What bedtime looks like, what she is likely to need in the night, continence supplies, wandering precautions and how the morning should go.
Care can often begin within a few days of the consultation, depending on your needs and schedule.
Our overnight caregivers cover Will County from Bolingbrook to Frankfort. These are the communities we serve most often; call to confirm coverage elsewhere in the county.
Nights are usually one piece of a larger plan across the county.
Our overnight caregivers also serve DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties.
Both can work, and many families try covered nights first because it keeps her in her own home. A caregiver in the house means the 3 a.m. call goes to someone forty seconds away, and you find out how the night went from a note in the morning.
That depends on what her nights are like. Several wakings, wandering or turning call for a caregiver who is awake throughout; a parent who sleeps through but should not be by herself may only need someone dozing in the next room. The evening visit settles it.
Yes. Many families hand us the nights before workdays and keep Friday and Saturday themselves, subject to our minimum hours per shift.
The caregiver is up before she reaches the door, never restrains her, and walks with her until a cup of tea or a change of subject brings her back to bed. It almost always does.
911 is called first, then you, and the caregiver stays with your mother, medication list in hand, until the paramedics arrive. You hear straight away, but nobody is waiting on your forty-minute drive.
Often within a few days of the consultation, and we can plan the first night around the discharge if we know the date ahead of time.
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.
Tell us where your parent lives and what her nights are like. Call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation.
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