Sacramento County

Home care in Sacramento, California

The city we are named for and the one we know best. Our office is on Fair Oaks Boulevard at the Arden-Arcade end, about ten miles from City Hall.

Free in-home assessment
A person answers, 24 hours a day
Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado counties

What home care in Sacramento actually looks like

Sacramento is not one place to arrange care in. A single-story house in the Fabulous Forties, a 1950s bungalow in Land Park, an apartment in Midtown and a riverside house in Pocket-Greenhaven are four different jobs, and the difference shows up in the first week: where the bathroom is, whether there are steps to the front door, whether a caregiver can park. That is most of why we insist on seeing the house before we quote anything.

The city is also younger than its own suburbs. About 14.2 percent of Sacramento residents are 65 or over, below the 15.3 percent countywide figure and well below Carmichael and Fair Oaks. The practical effect is that an older adult in the city is often the only person on their block in that situation, with adult children out in the suburbs or out of state, which is exactly the isolation that companion care exists for.

After a hospital stay

Where Sacramento families come home from

UC Davis Medical Center, 2315 Stockton Blvd, the only Level I trauma center north of San Francisco
Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, 2825 Capitol Ave
Mercy General Hospital, 4001 J Street
Kaiser Permanente Sacramento Medical Center, 2025 Morse Ave
Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento Medical Center, 6600 Bruceville Road
Methodist Hospital of Sacramento, 7500 Hospital Drive

Nearest hospitals

Sacramento has six general hospitals inside the city, more than the rest of our service area put together. Most of our first calls from the city come the day after one of them sends somebody home. Most first calls come the day after a discharge, so call while it is still being planned rather than after everyone is home.

Around town

Getting our bearings in Sacramento

Hart Senior Center, 915 27th Street, run by the City of Sacramento's Older Adult Services division for adults 50 and over. ACC Senior Services on Park City Drive in the Pocket has served the region's Asian American families since 1972.

Downtown and MidtownEast Sacramento and the Fabulous FortiesLand ParkOak ParkNatomasPocket-GreenhavenSouth Sacramento and Little Saigon

What we do

Home care services we provide in Sacramento

All ten, across Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado counties.

24-hour home care

Caregivers in shifts so the house is never without help.

Live-in care

One caregiver in the home, with a scheduled rest period.

Alzheimer's and dementia care

Familiar faces, steady routine, patient redirection.

Personal care

Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and medication reminders.

Companion care

Company, conversation, errands and getting out of the house.

Respite care

Time off for the family caregiver, an afternoon or two weeks.

Hospice support

Comfort care at home, alongside the hospice team.

Light housekeeping

Laundry, dishes, and floors clear enough to walk safely.

Meal preparation

Home-cooked meals your loved one will actually eat.

Transportation

Rides to appointments and errands, door to door.

What home care costs around Sacramento

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 Sacramento County covers what Medicare will and will not cover, how Medi-Cal's IHSS program works, and what VA Aid and Attendance is worth.

How it starts

Starting home care in Sacramento

You call

At any hour. Tell us what is happening at home and we will tell you honestly whether this is the right kind of help.

We visit the house

Free, and no obligation. We look at the routine and the layout, then put a plan and a clear cost in writing before anything begins.

You meet your caregiver

Matched on skills and on temperament, and introduced before care starts. A second familiar face is kept ready for vacation and sick days.

Questions families ask

Home care in Sacramento, answered

If yours is not here, ask it on the phone: (916) 229-8120.

Which parts of Sacramento does Guiding Souls cover?

All of it. Our office is at 3626 Fair Oaks Blvd, Suite 100, which puts East Sacramento, Midtown, Land Park, Oak Park, Natomas, Pocket-Greenhaven and South Sacramento inside a short drive. Call Guiding Souls Home Care at (916) 229-8120 with the address and we will tell you what we can staff.

My mother is being discharged from UC Davis. Can care start that day?

Sometimes, and it depends entirely on the hours you need and on finding the right match. Call while the discharge is being planned rather than after it. We will tell you honestly what we can staff and when, rather than promising a date we cannot keep.

Do you work in apartments and condos as well as houses?

Yes. The free visit matters more in an apartment, not less, because parking, elevators, building access and where the bathroom sits all change how a shift actually runs.

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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.

Call (916) 229-8120 Request a free assessment

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