Every family caregiver in Will County should be able to answer one question: if you were taken to Silver Cross tonight, who would be with your mother tomorrow morning? Most cannot. Respite care Will County families arrange with Guided with Grace is the answer to that question and to the gentler ones too: the planned afternoons, the weekends and the weeks away that keep you from ending up in the emergency room in the first place.
Our respite care puts a trained caregiver in your place for the hours you choose, running your parent’s day the way you run it. Set up ahead of time, it does two jobs: the regular breaks that keep you well, and a backup plan that already knows the house if something happens to you.
The backup plan often turns into a routine. Will County families who start with occasional cover commonly move to a few fixed visits a week, and for those whose exhaustion comes from the nights, overnight caregivers are the respite that actually helps.
Family caregivers in Will County work long shifts at the hospitals, the warehouses and the schools, then come home to a second shift. These are the people who most need a plan.
Your back, your heart, a car accident on I-80. With a handover already on file, a caregiver can be at your mother's house the next morning.
Rotating shifts at the hospital or the distribution center leave no predictable time to rest. Respite built around the roster does.
Your siblings phone from Texas and Arizona; you are the one at the door. Respite spreads the load without a family fight.
Caring alone at 82 puts two people at risk. A few covered hours each week protect the carer as much as the cared-for.
Ours is the private layer of respite; Will County supplies public ones, and we help families claim them.
The Senior Services Center of Will County at 251 North Center Street in Joliet, (815) 723-9713 or (800) 892-1412, coordinates the Illinois Community Care Program for residents 60 and older who qualify, which can include adult day service and respite, and it also provides Meals on Wheels, information and assistance and emergency home response systems. Its outreach points at the Lockport Township building and the Frankfort Township office bring those services closer for the south and east of the county. AgeGuide Northeastern Illinois, the Area Agency on Aging for Will County, runs the Family Caregiver Support Program at 1-800-528-2000 with respite, counseling and legal help for family caregivers.
Caregivers of a parent with dementia can call the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter’s Helpline, 1-800-272-3900, day or night. When the reason for a block of cover is your own surgery at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet or UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook, we build the coverage around the date and the weeks of recovery after it. Township programs such as the DuPage Township Levy Senior Center in Bolingbrook and the Plainfield Township Community Center give a parent somewhere to be on the days you are not there, and Access Will County Dial-a-Ride, registered through (815) 774-6346, can get them there.
We provide respite throughout Will County from our office in Naperville. More about Guided with Grace.
A backup plan only works if it is written down in advance, so the handover meeting happens at the start, not in a crisis: the routine, the medications, the foods, the moods, who to call. 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.
Standing respite goes to one caregiver wherever the rota allows, and because our teams are grouped by area, cover in Frankfort or Lockport at short notice is realistic rather than theoretical. The FAQ page covers the rest.
Next Thursday or the emergency you hope never comes, the setup is the same.
Call (630) 608-3956 or use the contact page with the dates you need covered, or simply to put a plan on file.
We sit down with you and your parent and get the whole day on paper.
You get the caregiver’s name and the schedule in advance, and a plan we can activate if you call in an emergency.
Care can often begin within a few days of the consultation, depending on your needs and schedule.
Our respite caregivers cover Will County from Bolingbrook to Frankfort. These are the communities we serve most often; call to confirm coverage elsewhere in the county.
Respite frequently leads families to a steadier weekly arrangement.
The same respite caregivers serve DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties.
If you have set up respite care Will County agencies like ours can activate, a caregiver who already has your handover on file can be at her house the next morning. That is exactly why we encourage families to do the handover meeting before they need it.
Yes. Monthly weekends are booked ahead with one caregiver wherever we can, so your parent knows who is coming and you can buy the tickets.
Yes. Give us the roster as far ahead as you have it and we schedule around it, subject to our minimum hours per visit.
No. We provide respite to anyone doing the caring, whatever the condition, and many of our clients’ parents are simply frail with age.
Yes. Funded respite through AgeGuide or the county’s program and private respite through us can be combined, and we schedule around whatever is already arranged.
For a fortnight, as much as possible; mention it the moment the trip becomes likely and we start lining up coverage. Shorter notice is often workable, but ask early.
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.
Put a plan on file, book the break, or both. Call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation.
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