Cambridge, Massachusetts
Home care in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is triple-deckers, condo buildings and narrow stairs, often with no elevator and no parking. We plan the practical side of a visit here before the first shift, because it decides whether care actually works.
After the hospital
Coming home from Mount Auburn Hospital
The discharge paperwork tells you what happened in the hospital. It does not tell you who is going to be at the house at seven in the morning when getting out of bed is the hardest thing of the day.
For a Cambridge household we can usually be there within a day of the discharge: same caregiver, same hours, a short written note after every visit, and a call to you the same day if anything looks different.
Nearest hospitals
- Mount Auburn Hospital
Typical start
Within about 24 hours of a discharge, most weeks.
Day to day
What we help with in Cambridge
- Care in walk-up apartments and condo buildings
- Groceries and errands for someone who has stopped driving
- Rides to Mount Auburn and to specialists in Boston
- Companionship for a retired academic living alone
This is non-medical care. We do not provide skilled clinical services, and we will say so on the first call if that is what the situation needs.
Local help beyond what we do
Plenty of what Cambridge families need is not something we sell: meals, a heating bill, a ride, help understanding Medicare. The aging services agency for Cambridge is the right first call for those, and they cost nothing.
Aging services
MassOptions
1-800-243-4636Free. They do not sell care, and routing people to the right program is the whole job.
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