Care at home in Scottsdale
Care at home in Scottsdale, from the first wash to the evening company.
The Hills Premium Services sends caregivers and companions to older adults who want to stay in their own homes. Here is what that looks like across one ordinary day: the bathroom in the morning, the kitchen at noon, the table in the afternoon and the armchair by the window in the evening.
Every visit is planned around the person. Read down the page, or call the office on (480) 234-1301 to talk about someone you are arranging care for.
Morning: Personal care
Washing up and getting dressed, in their own bathroom
The day starts with the things most of us do without thinking until they get harder: a shower or a wash at the sink, dressing, brushing hair and teeth. A caregiver comes to the home, so it all happens with the person's own towels, their own soap and their own order of doing things.
Privacy and dignity come first. The caregiver says what they are about to do, waits for a yes, and leaves every task the person can still manage to the person. If something looks different from last week, the family hears about it.
Read about personal care
Help with bathing, dressing and grooming in the person's own bathroom, with privacy and dignity kept first.
Noon: Meal preparation
A meal cooked in their own kitchen, then eaten together
At midday a caregiver cooks what the person actually likes to eat, following any diet the family or the doctor has set. Nothing arrives in a tray. The smell of a real lunch coming together in a familiar kitchen does a lot for appetite.
Sitting down to the meal together turns lunch into company as well as food. Between visits the caregiver keeps the fridge and pantry sensible, so there is always something good to reach for.
Read about meal preparation
Meals cooked in their own kitchen, to their own tastes and any diet the family or doctor has set, then eaten in company.
Afternoon: Medication reminders
A reminder at the right hour, kept to the doctor's schedule
By the afternoon the schedule matters. A caregiver prompts the person at the time the doctor and family agreed, and notes what was taken. This is a reminder, not nursing, and the plan stays exactly as the prescriber set it.
If a dose is missed or the person seems off, the family is told the same day, so a small slip does not sit unnoticed until the next appointment.
Read about medication reminders
A reminder at the right time of day so the schedule the doctor set is kept, with the family told if something seems off.
Evening: Companionship
Company in the evening, so the day is not spent alone
Evenings can be the loneliest stretch at home. A companion sits down for conversation and a hand of cards, goes along on a short walk or an errand, and gives emotional support on the harder days, including the weeks after a hospital stay.
Wherever possible the same faces return, so trust builds the way it does with any good neighbour, and the person looks forward to the knock at the door.
Read about companionship
Conversation, cards, short walks and errands, and emotional support, so the day at home is not spent alone.
The plan behind the day
What a care plan covers
Morning, noon, afternoon and evening are chapters, not a fixed timetable. Sarha and her team write the care plan after talking with the family, then caregivers keep to it.
- The person comes first
- Care plans are personalised. We start from how the person's day actually runs, what they still like doing for themselves and where the hours get hard.
- Their routine, kept
- Visits fit around the way the household already works, so the radio stays on, the tea is made the usual way and nobody rushes.
- The family stays informed
- Our caregivers notice changes and tell the family, so you hear about a missed dose or a quiet mood early.
- Daily living, covered
- Personal care, meal preparation, medication reminders and companionship with emotional support, all from the same small team in Scottsdale.
Before you call
Questions families ask first
Short answers about what care at home covers, where we are and how to begin.
Start with a call
Tell us about the person, and we will plan the day around them.
Call the Greenway Parkway office or send a short note. Someone from the team will talk it through with you.