Private duty, non-medical home care for families in Florence, Mississippi. Help with dressing, bathing, meals, light housekeeping and companionship, delivered at home.
Florence has more residential senior care options than most towns its size, so a lot of families here are weighing a move. This page is meant to help with that decision, including in the cases where moving is the right call. Call (601) 900-7218.
Almost every result you will find searching for senior care in Florence is a facility, or a directory paid by facilities. So here is the comparison nobody ranking has a reason to give you.
What residential care costs. Published directory figures put nursing home care in Florence at roughly $196 a day, about $71,540 a year. That is a third-party survey average, not a quote. Assisted living sits below that. Verify with the facility directly.
What home care costs. Our rates are quoted per plan, because in-home care is bought by the hour rather than by the month. A few mornings a week is a fundamentally different bill from live-in care, and that is the point. A facility charges for a bed whether the person needs four hours of help or eighteen. In-home care lets you buy the hours that are actually needed.
When a facility is genuinely the better answer. We would rather say this plainly than sell you something that does not fit:
If your situation is on that list, a good facility beats good home care. If it is not, home is usually where people do better, and the cost comparison is closer than the brochures suggest.
Mornings first. Help with washing and dressing, then breakfast made and eaten with someone in the room.
Through the day, the ordinary upkeep: laundry, dishes, a clean bathroom, a changed bed, floors kept clear of what people trip on. Light housekeeping, but consistent.
Meals cooked to taste and to whatever a doctor has restricted. Groceries collected, prescriptions picked up, appointments driven to and sat through.
Medication reminders on schedule. Caregivers remind, never administer, and tell you when the reminders stop working.
And the companionship, which is not filler. In a house where someone has been alone eleven hours a day, having a person there changes eating, sleeping and mood before it changes anything else.
Hourly visits, full days, overnight and live-in. Awake overnight means the caregiver stays up, available for bathroom trips, wandering, and after-midnight confusion. Sleeping overnight means the caregiver rests in the home and gets up when needed. They are staffed and billed differently.
Live-in means continuous presence with a built-in sleep period and a scheduled relief rotation.
We serve Florence and the surrounding south Rankin County area — including Richland, Star, Pearl and Brandon — from our Jackson office, about 15 miles away. We do not have an office in Florence.
Call us today or send an email. We will call back the same day.