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.
Non-medical home care
Hospice support at home in Sacramento
Hospice brings the clinical care. What most families still need is someone in the house between those visits: to sit, to turn a pillow, to keep the household running, and to make sure nobody is alone at four in the morning.
Talk it through first
A person answers at any hour, and the first visit to the house costs nothing.
Call (916) 229-8120- Free in-home assessment
- A person answers, 24 hours a day
- Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado counties
Why families call about hospice support
Hospice usually sends a nurse, a social worker and a chaplain, and they are very good at what they do. What hospice does not send is somebody at three in the afternoon on a Wednesday when your mother wants to be turned, or her mouth is dry, or she simply does not want to be in the room by herself. The gap between those visits is what families cannot cover alone.
Who hospice support is for
- A family whose hospice team visits, but not around the clock
- Someone who wants to remain at home to the end
- Relatives who need to sleep, eat and grieve without leaving the room unattended
What a caregiver does
What hospice support looks like day to day
- Presence, day or night, including overnight sitting
- Bathing, grooming and keeping someone comfortable and dignified
- Meals kept going in the house, for whoever is there
- Laundry, tidying and answering the door, so the family can be family
- Working alongside the hospice nurses rather than duplicating them
Where this stops
We work alongside the hospice team, never instead of it. Symptom management, medication and every clinical decision stay with the hospice nurse and the physician. Our caregivers provide comfort, presence, personal care, and support for the family in the house.
How it starts
Starting hospice support with Guiding Souls
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.
What changes the cost of hospice support
This is the most changeable plan we write, because the need changes week to week and sometimes day to day. What that means for cost is that the hours are not fixed at the start. We agree what this week needs, and we change it when the week changes. Ask how that works on the call and we will explain it plainly.
Our guide to what home care costs in Sacramento walks through hourly, live-in and around the clock pricing, and how families pay for home care in California covers long-term care insurance, IHSS and VA benefits.
Questions families ask
Hospice support questions, answered
If yours is not here, ask it on the phone: (916) 229-8120.
Do you replace hospice?
No. Hospice provides the clinical and pain care. Guiding Souls Home Care is non-medical, and we work alongside them with everything else.
Can you sit overnight?
Yes. Overnight presence is one of the most common things families ask us for at this stage.
How quickly can this start?
Call Guiding Souls Home Care at (916) 229-8120. A person answers at any hour anywhere in Sacramento, Placer, Yolo and El Dorado counties, and this is the situation that 24-hour phone exists for.
Related care
Care that often goes with this
24-hour home care
Caregivers in shifts so the house is never without help.
Read morePersonal care
Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and medication reminders.
Read moreRespite care
Time off for the family caregiver, an afternoon or two weeks.
Read moreLive-in care
One caregiver in the home, with a scheduled rest period.
Read moreOne call, at any hour
Tell us what tonight and tomorrow look like and we will tell you what we can cover, and when. A person answers the phone around the clock.