Compassionate Home Care Services in Laguna Niguel, CA

Laguna Niguel was planned, built and sold over a fairly short stretch of years, which means a great many of its residents arrived at roughly the same stage of life and have stayed put ever since.

Streets that filled with young families in the eighties are now largely couples in their seventies and eighties, frequently in the same houses and next to the same neighbours. The houses have held up well. The hills have not become any gentler.

We provide non-medical home care throughout Laguna Niguel: personal care, meal preparation, light housekeeping, medication reminders, transport to appointments, companionship, and respite for people who have quietly become a full-time caregiver to their own husband or wife.

Gated communities, and the practical business of getting in

A good share of Laguna Niguel sits behind a gate — a guard, a code, a call box, or some combination of the three. It is a small thing right up until someone is relying on a caregiver arriving on time, at which point it becomes a daily thing.

It is worth settling before care begins rather than at eight o'clock on the first morning. Most communities will add a regular caregiver to a resident's permanent guest list; some require the resident to call each visit in. Tell us which arrangement yours uses and we will work to it. In-home care in Laguna Niguel runs considerably more smoothly when the gate is not an open question.

When a husband or wife is doing the caring

The most common caregiver we meet here is a spouse. Someone in their late seventies helping a partner in and out of the shower, up out of a chair, into the passenger seat. They almost never describe it as caregiving. It is simply what you do.

The difficulty is that it is physically demanding work, carried out by someone who is also ageing, usually without a day off and often without telling the children quite how hard it has become. Respite care exists for exactly this. Senior home care covering a few hours a week is not a verdict on how well somebody is managing — it is frequently what allows them to carry on managing at all.