In-home care · Omaha metro
Respite care
This one is for you, not for them. Family caregivers get ill, miss their own appointments and burn out quietly, and the care usually collapses at that point rather than gradually. Respite is the thing that stops that happening — a few hours a week, a weekend, or cover while you are away.
What a caregiver actually does
Not a category — the specific things that happen while somebody is in the house.
- A few hours a week so you can sleep, work or see your own doctor
- Overnight cover so somebody else is listening for the bedroom door
- A week or two while you take a holiday you have cancelled twice
- Emergency cover when you are ill or something happens
- The full care routine while you are out, not just sitting in
- A written handover so you know exactly how the time went
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.
You have not had a full night’s sleep in months
You have cancelled your own appointments more than once
You cannot remember the last time you left the house without planning it
You are short with them and then feel terrible about it
How respite 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
- I feel guilty even asking about this.
- Nearly everyone says a version of that sentence. The people who do not get a break are the ones who end up unable to care at all, and the person they are caring for is the one who loses. Taking Tuesday afternoon off is part of the care plan, not a failure of it.
- Can respite be covered by Medicaid?
- Often, yes — respite is one of the things the waiver is specifically meant to fund. If you are already on Medicaid we will check what is approved before you pay for anything.
Families who needed this usually needed one of these too
Meal preparation & nutrition
Shopping, cooking to a diet, and making sure they are actually eating and drinking.
Medication reminders
Keeping to the schedule. We remind and prompt; we do not administer.
Mobility assistance
Getting from bed to chair, walking safely, using a frame or a chair properly.
Respite care in
Not sure whether respite 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.