Home care in Placer County
Placer County runs from the valley floor up into the Sierra foothills, and the care changes as you climb. Roseville is suburban and hospital-rich. Lincoln has a single 55-plus community of 6,783 homes inside the city. Auburn is old houses on hillsides.
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Home care across Placer
Placer is the county where the age story is hardest to miss. Lincoln and Auburn both report 27.0 percent of residents aged 65 or over, against 17.5 percent for California as a whole, and they get there in opposite ways. Lincoln's comes almost entirely from Sun City Lincoln Hills, a single 55-plus development of 6,783 homes across nearly 3,000 acres. Auburn's is diffuse: people who bought a house on a hillside decades ago and have no intention of leaving it, where the median resident is 47.5 years old against 38.5 across the metro.
The practical consequence for both towns is the same. Neither has an acute-care hospital that covers everything, so a serious admission means Roseville, and the trip home afterwards is a cross-town drive rather than a few blocks. Families here plan the first week home more carefully than families in the city do, because the hospital is not around the corner if something goes wrong.
Where we work in Placer
Roseville
Placer County's largest city, and one of the few places in our area with two acute-care hospitals inside the city limits.
Home care in RosevilleLincoln
Twenty-seven percent of Lincoln is 65 or older, and one 55-plus community of 6,783 homes sits inside the city.
Home care in LincolnAuburn
More than one in four Auburn residents is 65 or over, the oldest community we serve and the furthest from our office.
Home care in AuburnHome care services across Placer
All ten, wherever we reach.
24-hour home care
Caregivers in shifts so the house is never without help.
Read moreLive-in care
One caregiver in the home, with a scheduled rest period.
Read moreAlzheimer's and dementia care
Familiar faces, steady routine, patient redirection.
Read morePersonal care
Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and medication reminders.
Read moreCompanion care
Company, conversation, errands and getting out of the house.
Read moreRespite care
Time off for the family caregiver, an afternoon or two weeks.
Read moreHospice support
Comfort care at home, alongside the hospice team.
Read moreLight housekeeping
Laundry, dishes, and floors clear enough to walk safely.
Read moreMeal preparation
Home-cooked meals your loved one will actually eat.
Read moreTransportation
Rides to appointments and errands, door to door.
Read moreWhat home care costs around Placer
There is a published median rate for this whole metro area, and it is the honest starting point for a conversation about money. Our guide to what home care costs across the Sacramento region gives that figure, explains the assumption buried in the monthly version of it, and runs the arithmetic at the amounts of care families actually buy.
If the question is who pays rather than how much, how families pay for home care in Placer County covers what Medicare will and will not cover, how Medi-Cal's IHSS program works, and what VA Aid and Attendance is worth.
Home care in Placer, answered
If yours is not here, ask it on the phone: (916) 229-8120.
Does Guiding Souls serve Placer County from a Sacramento office?
Yes. Our office is at 3626 Fair Oaks Blvd, Suite 100 in Sacramento, and we serve Roseville, Lincoln and Auburn from it. Our caregivers live across the region, so a match accounts for the drive as well as the person.
Do you cover Sun City Lincoln Hills?
Yes. Sun City Lincoln Hills is 6,783 homes and every one of them is age restricted, so it is one of the places families most often ask about. Call Guiding Souls Home Care at (916) 229-8120 and we will talk through what the schedule would look like.
Auburn is a long way from Sacramento. Does that change anything?
It changes scheduling more than it changes care. Auburn is about 30 miles from our office, so we match caregivers who live nearby rather than sending someone on a 40-minute drive twice a day, and we are honest on the call about what we can staff there and when.
Tell us what is happening at home
One call, at any hour, and a free visit before anything is decided. No contract, and a caregiver only once the match is right.
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