In-home care in Dover, Delaware
Non-medical home care in Dover, Delaware. Personal care, companionship, meals, medication
reminders and transport to appointments
Dover keeps its older residents
Dover is a town people arrive in for a job and never leave. Careers with the state, years at the base, a house bought
when the children were small — and then the children grow up and take work north, or out of Delaware altogether.
What that leaves is a lot of people in their seventies and eighties living alone in a house they know inside out, a few
miles from a hospital and several hours from their family. They are not in difficulty. They are simply on their own far
more than anyone realises.
The houses out past the edge of town
Kent County spreads out quickly once you leave the middle of Dover. A road with four houses on it and fields between
them is a fine place to live until the day walking to the mailbox becomes a decision.
Out there nobody calls in by accident. A neighbour does not notice that the curtains stayed shut. And the first hard
weather of the winter turns a quiet week into a week where nobody comes at all. Regular visits are worth more in that
kind of place than they are in a street where people are always passing.
What we do in a week
Personal care, including help with washing, dressing and moving safely around the house. Companionship, which here
often means being the only conversation that happens that day. Cooking a proper meal and eating it together. Light
housekeeping and laundry. Medication reminders. Driving to appointments — including Bayhealth on South State
Street — and waiting to bring them home rather than leaving them to arrange the return.
And respite, so that a husband or wife who has been managing alone gets a genuine afternoon off rather than a
rushed hour.
Don't hesitate to contact us.
Plain terms
The first conversation is free and there is no obligation attached to it. If you want to go ahead, you will have the price in
writing before anyone starts work, and you can stop or change the hours whenever you need to.
If the person we send is not right for your family, say so and we will send someone else.