In-home care · Omaha metro
Dementia & Alzheimer’s care
Dementia does not only take memory — it takes the routine the whole house was built on. The same question forty times, the accusation about the missing purse, the agitation that arrives every afternoon at four. None of it is personal, and a caregiver who knows that changes the temperature of the entire house.
What a caregiver actually does
Not a category — the specific things that happen while somebody is in the house.
- Routine that stays the same day to day, which is most of the treatment
- Redirection instead of correction — no arguing about what year it is
- Handling sundowning, the late-afternoon agitation, before it escalates
- Wandering and exit-door safety inside the home
- Eating and drinking, which slip early and quietly
- Keeping familiar music, photographs and habits in the day
Is it time?
What is usually happening when families call about this
If two or three of these sound like your house, it is worth a phone call. It costs nothing to ask.
The same story or question, many times an hour
Getting dressed for work at a job they left thirty years ago
Anger or suspicion aimed at the people closest to them
A spouse who is exhausted and will not say so
How dementia & alzheimer’s care gets paid for
Three different situations, three different answers. One of these is yours.
Please read this bit
We are a non-medical home care company
That means our caregivers help with daily life — washing, dressing, meals, mobility, housekeeping, company and getting to appointments. It is skilled, trained, background-checked help, and for most families it is exactly what is needed.
If any of that is what you need, say so and we will tell you straight — often the answer is a home health agency or hospice for the clinical side, with us doing the daily hours around it. We work alongside both, and we would rather point you to the right place than take a booking we cannot do properly.
What we do not do
- No nursing care, injections or IVs
- We remind and prompt about medication; we never administer it
- No wound care, catheters or clinical procedures
- No physical, occupational or speech therapy
- No diagnosing, and nothing that needs a nurse or a doctor
Questions families ask
- He gets angry with strangers. Will that not make it worse?
- It is usually the opposite once there is consistency. We deliberately send the same caregiver rather than whoever is free, because a familiar face stops being a stranger in a week or two — and a rotating cast never does.
- Do you take people who wander?
- Yes, at home. We will walk the house with you and deal with the door, the stove and the stairs before anything else. If the safe answer is more hours than you were expecting, we will say so.
Families who needed this usually needed one of these too
Companionship
Conversation, games, reading, a walk. Loneliness does measurable harm and this is the treatment for it.
Respite care
We take over for a few hours or a few days so the person doing the caring can sleep, work or leave the house.
Meal preparation & nutrition
Shopping, cooking to a diet, and making sure they are actually eating and drinking.
Dementia & Alzheimer’s care in
Not sure whether dementia & alzheimer’s care is what you need?
Tell us what is going on and we will tell you honestly — including when the answer is somebody other than us.