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Why In-Home Care

In-Home Care is the Best Choice!

Most people prefer home care - and for good reason. Home is a place of emotional and physical associations, memories and comfort.

Here are ten reasons why home care is a good choice for you and your family:

  1. FASTER RELEASE FROM THE HOSPITAL With home care, patients can come home sooner from the hospital. Quality home care can aid the healing process and help avoid hospital re-admissions.
  2. A VERY GOOD SUBSTITUTE FOR INSTITUTIONAL CARE In some cases - depending on the severity of an illness or disability - home care can substitute for other forms of institutionalized care, including hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living facilities. People are clearly happier when they can live in the comfort of home.
  3. INVOLVEMENT WITH TREATMENT Both the client and family members can be more intimately involved with the plan of care treatment at home.
  4. MORE INDEPENDENCE You make the decisions. You are in control. This is, perhaps, the greatest plus for receiving care at home.
  5. CLIENT COMFORT Being at home is simply more comfortable for most people than being in an unfamiliar place. They have their photographs, books, bed, bath, kitchen, telephone, television; everything in its place, which in studies has proven to be an effective emotional healer.
  6. MORE ACCESS AND CLOSER TO FAMILY AND FRIENDS Unlike the restricted visiting hours at hospitals and nursing homes, home provides a place where family and friends can be close to the person at all hours, whenever needed.
  7. BETTER MORALE Patients tend to have a greater sense of well-being and overall morale when they are in the comfortable surroundings of their own home.
  8. FASTER RECOVERY Research has shown that recovery can be faster at home than in the hospital, particularly if there is good quality, skilled home health care available to the patient.
  9. LOWER COST Depending on the hours needed, home care can be much more affordable than nursing homes or other institutions.
  10. HOME PROMOTES HEALING Patients enjoy a much better quality of life which many families have said helped to extend the lives, health & happiness of their loved ones. They are in a familiar environment around their family in both their home and community in which they’ve lived for many years. This is particularly true with individuals suffering from dementia.

Call us at (815) 427-4238 if you need care in other cities, and we’ll gladly help you.

Hear From the
Families We Serve

  • Home Helpers gave my father, in his last days was heart moving. They performed their duties at the height of the pandemic and took every precaution to make sure that he stayed safe. They gave him care and companionship that was top notch. Donna C.

    - Donna C.
  • Kay Jurica, the owner of Home Helpers of Bourbonnais is one of the most compassionate business owners I know. Her clients are not customers to her but family. The staff she hires are carbon copies of her. She puts people first. If my folks were still ...

    - Howard
  • Home Helpers of Bourbonnais has supplied wonderful care to our loved one. I’m so grateful they introduced us to the Automated Medication Dispenser. The dispenser can be set to go off up to four times a day, with an alarm to alert our loved one that ...

    - Gina
  • The manager or owner of Home Helpers of Bourbonnais came to the hospital. My son was very impressed with her.

    - Delorece B.
  • The Home Helpers office staff works with us to help Judith stay on her own.

    - Judy O.
  • I appreciate that the office staff at Home Helpers of Bourbonnais calls me and checks on me. A lot of times I get an answering machine, but they call me back.

    - Lavern H.
  • The Home Helpers caregivers took notes of what my loved one’s needs were and went above and beyond.

    - Nancy S.
  • Home Helpers of Bourbonnais seems to provide so many extra benefits for me.

    - Gordon B.
  • Home Helpers of New Lenox and their caregivers have been a godsend to us as we experience Mom’s final journey. Your services have allowed us to keep Mom here at home, which is where she wanted to be. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

    - Ginny W.
  • I am very impressed with the quality of care and love that Mom and Dad are receiving from Home Helpers of New Lenox, particularly Trish. She’s been here every morning since I arrived, and the care she exhibits for my parents is obvious. They have a ...

    - Cathy M.

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urgent situation

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With our FREE In-Home Care Assessment and Home Safety Assessment we can help you through this tough time in the comfort of your own home.

You have a loved one who is in declining health

You want to keep them in their beloved home, but need to know their needs are being cared for.

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With our Cared-4program, we create a customized plan specific to your loved one's needs.

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