Lexington, Massachusetts
Home care in Lexington, Massachusetts
Lexington is full of houses that were bought for a growing family and are now being lived in by one or two people, often with the bedroom and the bathroom on different floors. Most of the calls we take here start with stairs, a fall, or a discharge from Lahey a few miles up the road.
After the hospital
Coming home from Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
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 Lexington 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
- Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
- Winchester Hospital
Typical start
Within about 24 hours of a discharge, most weeks.
Day to day
What we help with in Lexington
- Getting safely up and down the stairs of an older Colonial
- Rides to Lahey and Winchester Hospital appointments
- Meals and housekeeping when a spouse has been doing all of it alone
- Steady hours after a knee or hip replacement
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 Lexington families need is not something we sell: meals, a heating bill, a ride, help understanding Medicare. The aging services agency for Lexington 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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