Woburn, Massachusetts
Home care in Woburn, Massachusetts
Woburn is close to both Winchester Hospital and Lahey, so we can often start quickly here. Most households want a few set hours a day rather than round-the-clock help.
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 Woburn 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 Woburn
- A few set hours each day, at the same time
- Bathing, dressing and meal preparation
- Rides to Winchester Hospital, Lahey and the Woburn Senior Center
- Short-term cover while a family caregiver is away
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 Woburn families need is not something we sell: meals, a heating bill, a ride, help understanding Medicare. The aging services agency for Woburn 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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