Winchester, Massachusetts
Home care in Winchester, Massachusetts
Winchester Hospital is in town, so the gap we usually fill here is the one right after discharge, when the hospital is done and home is not yet ready.
After the hospital
Coming home from Winchester 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 Winchester 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
- Winchester Hospital
- Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Typical start
Within about 24 hours of a discharge, most weeks.
Day to day
What we help with in Winchester
- The first two weeks home after a Winchester Hospital stay
- Steadying someone on stairs and getting in and out of a car
- Meals, laundry and keeping the house workable
- Rides to follow-up appointments and the Jenks Center
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 Winchester families need is not something we sell: meals, a heating bill, a ride, help understanding Medicare. The aging services agency for Winchester 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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