What counts as personal care.
Hands-on help with the parts of the day that have become hard: bathing and showering, dressing, grooming, using the bathroom, and getting safely in and out of a bed or chair. It usually arrives alongside the quieter things, like laundry, a meal and a reminder about her tablets.
How is this different from a nurse or home health?
Personal care is non-medical. A caregiver helps her wash and dress; a nurse changes a wound dressing, manages IV therapy or handles a feeding tube. The rates are a different order too: the published Georgia median for a private duty nurse is about $98 an hour against $32 for a non-medical caregiver.
If her needs are medical, say so early and we will tell you plainly that you need a licensed home health provider instead.
What if she is embarrassed about being helped to wash?
Nearly everyone is at first. It is why the same caregiver matters more here than anywhere else in care, and why we introduce people before regular visits start rather than sending a stranger to the most private part of her day.
She also gets to say how things are done: which order, which towel, which door open or closed. Keeping those choices with her is most of what makes this bearable.
How much does personal care cost?
The published median for a non-medical caregiver in Georgia is about $32 an hour, and metro Atlanta sits at the same figure rather than above it. Hours move the bill far more than the rate does, so ask any agency for a written weekly total. Read what care at home costs, then how families pay for it if you are wondering whether Medicaid, a long-term care policy or VA benefits can carry part of it.
We come to her home across metro Atlanta, including Buckhead, Sandy Springs, Dunwoody, Brookhaven, Decatur, Marietta, Roswell, Alpharetta, Johns Creek and Smyrna. See the areas we serve for what changes locally, and tell us her address and we will say plainly what we can staff.