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Live-In & 24-Hour Care

When being alone is no longer safe — overnight wandering, fall risk, advanced illness — continuous care keeps your loved one home instead of in a facility.

What It Is

Someone there, every hour

Continuous care comes in two forms, and we help you choose. Live-in care places one caregiver in the home through the day with sleep hours at night — right for clients who mostly sleep through the night. 24-hour care staffs rotating shifts so an aide is awake at all times — right for clients who wander, need repositioning, or require overnight attention.

Either way, we build the rotation deliberately: enough consistency that your loved one sees familiar faces, enough rotation that no caregiver runs on empty.

Two IHCS caregivers sharing tea by a window at a client's home, a chess board set up beside them

What continuous care covers

  • Overnight safety monitoring and assistance
  • All personal care and HHA services, around the clock
  • Repositioning and pressure-injury prevention
  • Meal preparation for the full day
  • Support for dementia-related wandering and sundowning
  • Immediate response to falls or changes in condition
  • Household continuity — laundry, tidying, routines
  • Structured caregiver handoffs with notes

A good fit when…

A doctor, discharge planner, or your own experience says your loved one can't be left unattended — day or night. Many MLTC plans authorize continuous care when the need is documented; our nurses know how to document it.

Worth knowing…

Live-in care requires a private space for the caregiver to sleep. If that's not possible in the home, 24-hour shift care is the alternative — same coverage, different staffing.

Talk through continuous care

These are big decisions. Call us and we'll walk through what coverage, staffing, and cost actually look like for your situation.