Concord, Massachusetts
Home care in Concord, Massachusetts
Concord houses tend to sit on land, down a drive, with distance between neighbors. That privacy is lovely until someone is recovering and nobody is looking in. Emerson is the hospital families here name most often.
After the hospital
Coming home from Emerson 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 Concord 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
- Emerson Hospital
Typical start
Within about 24 hours of a discharge, most weeks.
Day to day
What we help with in Concord
- Daily check-ins where neighbors are not close by
- Rides to Emerson and to appointments in Bedford and Lexington
- Help after a fall in a house with uneven older floors
- Memory support in a home someone has lived in for decades
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 Concord families need is not something we sell: meals, a heating bill, a ride, help understanding Medicare. The aging services agency for Concord is the right first call for those, and they cost nothing.
Aging services
Minuteman Senior Services
(888) 222-6171Free. They do not sell care, and routing people to the right program is the whole job.
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