Many Will County families are told their parent qualifies for some in-home help through the state, then discover that the hours arrive at ten in the morning when the hard part of the day was seven. Personal home care Will County families arrange with Guided with Grace is built to fit around whatever is already in place: the early shower, the bedtime routine, the weekend, and the weeks between a hospital discharge and the day the funded hours begin.
Our personal care is hands-on help with the private parts of the day: bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and moving safely. What makes it work in Will County is timing, because the help has to land when the risk is.
State-funded help is valuable, and it has edges. These are the situations where private personal care fills them.
Funded visits come when the schedule allows; your father needs help at 6:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. We cover the hours the program cannot.
Assessment and approval take time. Private care can begin within a few days of the consultation and step back when funded hours start.
Silver Cross, Saint Joseph and AdventHealth Bolingbrook send patients home with instructions not to shower or dress alone. The first weeks need hands-on help now.
Plenty of families do not qualify or have not applied. Private personal care needs no application.
Understanding what the county provides makes it easier to see where private care fits.
The Illinois Community Care Program provides in-home services, adult day service, emergency home response systems and respite to Will County residents 60 and older who qualify, with care coordination through the Senior Services Center of Will County at 251 North Center Street in Joliet, (815) 723-9713 or (800) 892-1412. The same center runs Meals on Wheels, Senior Community Cafes, information and assistance and the long-term care ombudsman, and reaches the rest of the county through outreach points at the Lockport Township building and the Frankfort Township office and monthly cafe lunches in New Lenox and Frankfort. AgeGuide’s Family Caregiver Support Program (1-800-528-2000) supports the relative who has been doing the intimate care until now.
Hospital discharges are the other trigger for personal care. Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook and the Endeavor Health Edward Emergency Center in Plainfield all send Will County residents home with instructions about bathing, stairs and dressing; when a discharge planner says your parent will need help, we can be ready for the first morning back. Access Will County Dial-a-Ride, registered through the Will County Mobility Manager at (815) 774-6346, covers residents 60 and older for follow-up appointments on the days a caregiver escort is not scheduled.
Guided with Grace is based in Naperville, on the DuPage and Will county line. Read about our approach to care.
A private caregiver in a home that also receives funded hours has to work well with other people’s schedules and never duplicate them, so we plan the visits around the whole week. Every caregiver is screened, background checked and trained before placement, and Guided with Grace is a licensed and insured non-medical home care agency in Illinois.
Gender preference and pace are built into the match, modesty is protected, and the same caregiver returns wherever the schedule allows. Teams are organized by area, so the caregiver covering New Lenox is not being pulled to Romeoville. Our FAQ page answers more.
Tell us what is already in place and where the gaps are; we plan for the gaps.
Call (630) 608-3956 or use the contact page: which hours are covered, which are not, and what has become unsafe.
A home visit to look at the shower, the toilet, the bed and how your parent moves between them.
Which steps get help, which stay your parent’s, and the hours that fill the gaps.
Care can often begin within a few days of the consultation, and steps back if funded hours later take over.
Our personal care caregivers cover Will County from Bolingbrook to Frankfort. These are the communities we serve most often; call to confirm coverage elsewhere in the county.
Once the private moments of the day are handled, these are the services families add.
The same caregivers serve DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties.
Yes. That is one of the most common arrangements we set up: funded hours where they land, our caregiver for the early mornings, evenings and weekends they do not reach, with no duplication.
Yes. Private care can usually begin within a few days of the consultation, and the plan can be scaled back once funded hours begin.
No. Personal care is non-medical, hands-on help with washing, dressing, grooming, toileting and mobility. Home health nurses handle wounds and clinical tasks, and our caregivers work alongside them.
Yes. Gender preference is part of every personal care match, wherever in the county your parent lives.
Usually within a few days of the consultation. Tell us the discharge date and we plan backward from it.
Yes. Weekend mornings and evenings are often exactly the hours families need covered, subject to our minimum hours per visit.
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 what is already in place and where the gaps are. Call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation.
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