You are raising two grandchildren and caring for your mother in the same Yorkville house, which means the school run, the homework, the pharmacy, the cardiologist and the laundry for five, and no evening that belongs to you. Respite care Yorkville IL families arrange with Guided with Grace is for the household doing double duty: a screened caregiver who takes your mother’s afternoon, or her weekend, so you can be a grandparent for a few hours instead of everyone’s nurse.
In a three-generation house our respite care means a trained caregiver takes charge of Grandma’s afternoon, her routine kept intact and her attention kept happily elsewhere while homework and practice happen around her.
Once the family sees how the afternoon runs, many Yorkville households turn it into regular weekly visits. If your sleep is the real casualty, a night caregiver can do more for you than any afternoon off.
Yorkville has plenty of homes where one adult is looking after a parent and a grandchild at once. These are the situations we hear about most.
Two sets of needs, one pair of hands. A caregiver for your mother's afternoon gives the children their grandparent back.
Your siblings are in Colorado and Florida, and the grandchildren are yours to raise. A caregiver for Grandma is help nobody has to argue about.
Grandpa is 82 and has been her only caregiver since the stroke. Giving him afternoons off keeps him fit enough to carry on.
Nobody can recover from a knee replacement while running a household of five. A block of cover makes the operation possible.
Because Yorkville is the county seat, most of Kendall County’s caregiver help is a short drive away.
Grandparents raising grandchildren are specifically included in AgeGuide’s Family Caregiver Support Program (1-800-528-2000), which funds respite and offers counseling and legal help. On West John Street the Kendall County Health Department (630-553-9100) runs caregiver counseling and a resource center. At the Beecher Center on Game Farm Road, Senior Services Associates (630-553-5777) can check whether your mother qualifies for state-funded home help or adult day care, and the City of Yorkville’s lunches, bingo and exercise classes in the same building give her somewhere lively to be.
While you are at the school, Kendall Area Transit (1-877-IGO-4KAT) can take a registered rider to the Beecher Center or a doctor’s visit. If Grandma has dementia, the Alzheimer’s Association Illinois Chapter answers 1-800-272-3900 day or night, and if your own operation is at Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, the cover can be scheduled to match.
We provide respite in Yorkville, Bristol and Plano. More about Guided with Grace.
Respite in a household with children needs a caregiver who can keep your mother’s routine steady while the house is loud, so before the first visit we write the day down with you: medications, meals, moods, the television schedule, and how she and the grandchildren get on. 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.
The same caregiver keeps the same afternoon wherever possible, until Grandma expects her and the children stop noticing her. More on the FAQ page.
Set it up once and it works for every game and every trip.
Phone (630) 608-3956 or use the contact page with the school calendar and the afternoons you need.
We sit with you and Grandma and write down her day, including the house rules with the kids.
You know the caregiver’s name and the afternoons before the first one.
Care can often begin within a few days of the consultation, depending on your needs and schedule.
Other ways we help households caring for two generations.
Our respite caregivers also work in the towns around Yorkville.
Yes. Standing cover for the games, the school events and the evenings is exactly what we set up for households doing double duty, and the caregiver keeps your mother’s afternoon calm while the house is busy.
Yes. Standing respite is scheduled with the same caregiver wherever possible, so your mother gets a familiar face and the children get used to her too.
No. The caregiver is there for your mother; child care is a separate arrangement. We do, however, plan her afternoon so the house works for everyone.
No. It is for anyone caring for an older relative, with or without a diagnosis.
Yes. AgeGuide’s program specifically includes grandparents raising grandchildren, and its funded respite can run alongside ours.
Ring us. Next-day cover is often possible, and if it is not we will tell you at once.
Yes, and Montgomery, Sugar Grove, Newark and Millbrook as well.
Tell us when you need to be at the school, the game or simply somewhere quiet. Call (630) 608-3956 or schedule a consultation.
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