Respite care gives you, the family caregiver, a real break while someone you trust looks after your loved one. HomeCare Professionals sends a caregiver to the house, so your mom, dad or spouse stays in their own surroundings and keeps their usual routine while you rest, go to work, travel or simply run your errands. We're a licensed California Home Care Organization (HCO), and our respite care can run anywhere from a few hours a day to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, whatever your family needs right now. The first step is always a free assessment, set up at a time that's convenient for you.
Respite care is short-term care that gives the main family caregiver time off. It can last anywhere from a few hours to several weeks, and it can happen at home, in a care facility or at an adult day center. In-home respite care keeps your loved one in their own house with a professional caregiver, so their favorite chair, their kitchen and their daily routine all stay just the way they like them.
You're far from the only one who needs it. About 63 million American adults, roughly 1 in 4, are family caregivers, and seven in ten of them also hold a job. That's the daughter juggling a work shift, her father's lunch and a pharmacy run, often all in the same afternoon.
Families turn to respite care for regular weekly relief, for a trip or a family wedding, when the caregiver has their own illness or surgery, or when the signs of exhaustion start to show. You get time to rest and catch your breath. Your loved one gets company, supervision and a friendly new face at the kitchen table.
HomeCare Professionals strive to be as flexible as possible, enabling us to better meet our client’s needs and schedules across all our services.
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Our caregiver steps into the routine you've been handling and keeps it going for as long as you're away. The respite care services we provide come straight from the list of services we offer every client:
Some of these tasks are the hands-on ones that wear a family caregiver down the most, like bathing, transfers and incontinence care. A trained caregiver can take those over for an afternoon or a whole weekend, so your loved one stays safe and comfortable and you come home rested.
The rest is the everyday help that keeps a house running smoothly: a warm lunch, a load of laundry, a quick trip to the store, and someone to sit and talk with over a cup of coffee. Plenty of seniors look forward to that conversation all week.
Our services are designed around the needs of each individual client. Your loved one's respite plan follows their own habits and preferences, from the time they like breakfast to the way they like their bath.
Our care schedules range anywhere from a few hours a day or a few days a week to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We're highly flexible, and we'll work with you to set up a schedule that suits your loved one and the rest of the family, too.
Many families use recurring relief, like a caregiver every Tuesday afternoon, so they can keep their own doctor's appointments or just sit down for a while. Others need short-term respite care for one stretch of time, such as a weekend away, a family event out of town or a longer trip.
Overnight respite care and around-the-clock coverage work in two ways. With hourly 24-hour home care, two or more caregivers rotate 8- or 12-hour shifts, so someone is always awake. That suits a loved one who wanders at night, needs help getting to the bathroom or wakes up confused and just needs some reassurance. With live-in care, one caregiver stays for a 24-hour shift and sleeps while your loved one sleeps, which fits a senior who usually rests through the night.
Our home care services are available 24/7, and in some cases we're able to begin within a few hours of your first contact.
Elderly respite care often comes with a diagnosis attached, and our respite care fits right alongside the specialty care we already provide.
Respite care for dementia gives a family a break from one of the most demanding kinds of caregiving. Our Alzheimer's and dementia care at home includes supervision to prevent wandering, companionship to prevent loneliness and help with daily activities. Familiar surroundings offer a great deal of security and peace of mind for someone with dementia, so we keep their usual routine going on respite days.
Our cancer care at home can be arranged as 24-hour live-in care, a short-term arrangement or respite care. The family member who has been at every treatment gets a much-needed break, and our caregiver helps with meals, personal care and moving safely around the house.
Our post-surgery care at home brings stand-by help to lower the risk of falls, along with help moving around to lower the risk of pneumonia and bedsores. Our caregivers regularly help after hip, knee and shoulder replacements.
Veteran seniors and their surviving spouses can get respite through our veterans home care, with help in all of the activities of daily living.
You may have some questions. Chances are we’ve been asked the very same question quite a few times. So we’ve started gathering a few of them here.
Here's how to get respite care set up with us. It follows the same four steps we use for all of our services, and the pace is up to you. Some families need care within hours, and others take a few weeks to decide, and we're happy to work either way.
You, or someone acting on your loved one's behalf, reach out through our Get Started form and share a little about what's going on. That first conversation is where we talk through whether home care is a good fit. If it is, and you'd like to go ahead, we'll schedule an assessment at a time and date that's convenient for you.
The assessment is a free, face-to-face visit where we go over the exact cost, the schedule, your loved one's care needs and anything else on your mind. The assessment can also happen over the phone when things are urgent and there isn't time to meet in person. You'll leave it with a full understanding of how our services work.
We have a large team of caregivers with a broad range of experience and backgrounds, and we use what we learned at the assessment to find the right match for your loved one. You're welcome to interview caregivers one-on-one, though many families simply ask us to make the selection for them.
You sign our service agreement once the caregiver is confirmed, and care begins at the time you agreed on.
Letting a respite caregiver into your home takes trust, and California sets a clear bar for it. Home care organizations in California have had to be licensed since January 2016, and each Home Care Aide must clear a criminal background check, with fingerprints run through the California Department of Justice, before their registration is approved. That check covers the person who would be sitting with your dad while you're out.
As a licensed California HCO, HomeCare Professionals is bound to the highest standards for caregiver screening, caregiver training, infectious disease protocols, insurance levels and general business practices. We've provided reliable, compassionate care for seniors for over 15 years. Discharge planners, social workers, conservators, trust officers and attorneys rely on us when their own clients and patients need dependable home care.
Our families put it best. "I needed the service immediately and Home Care responded," F. P. told us. "The caregiver is exceptional and reliable." R. O. in San Francisco wrote, "I felt you were always willing to work with me in finding the right caregiver." You can read more in our client testimonials.
Respite care cost depends on a few things: where your loved one lives, how much care they need and how many clients are in the home. Our rate includes taxes, insurance, bonding, screening and workers' compensation. Over the past decade, our rates have consistently been 10 to 20 percent or more lower than our direct competition. We can give you an exact quote once a few simple questions are answered, and the assessment is free.
The national median rate for in-home caregiver services rose 3% to $35 an hour in 2025. Professional respite services charge by the hour or by the number of days or weeks of care, so a few hours twice a week costs a good deal less than round-the-clock coverage.
Families pay for respite at home in several ways. We accept private pay, private insurance, long-term care insurance, veterans benefits, the VA Home Health Aide program, and Medi-Cal through CalAIM Community Supports when eligible and authorized. Most private health insurance plans don't cover respite care, and some long-term care insurance plans may. Our team also helps with the paperwork and claims for long-term care insurance.
HomeCare Professionals provides respite care in the San Francisco Bay Area, South Bay, East Bay, San Jose, Palo Alto, Walnut Creek, Sacramento, Livermore, Oakland, Rocklin, Citrus Heights, Chico, Fresno, Manteca, Santa Clara, Vacaville, Pleasant Hill, Redding, Red Bluff and the surrounding areas.
Many of these communities have their own page with more about the care we provide close to you, including home care in San Jose, Santa Clara, Oakland, Walnut Creek, Sacramento, Vacaville, Manteca, Chico, Fresno and Redding.
The easiest next step, wherever your loved one lives, is to start your services with a few details about what your family needs. A caring staff member from our office will follow up with information and pricing for your situation.
HomeCare Professionals is a licensed Home Care Organization by the State of California. We have locations in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the Sacramento Area. At HomeCare Professionals we put the needs of our client and their families first. The process for putting a successful care plan in place can vary with each client.
Often our client’s urgency dictates the manner in which we proceed. In some cases we are asked to begin services the within a few hours of the client making their initial contact. In other cases, clients may take weeks or longer before deciding to start service. HomeCare Professionals strives to be as flexible as possible which enables us to better meet our client’s needs and schedules, not the other way around.
Respite care is short-term care that gives a family caregiver a break while their loved one is looked after. With HomeCare Professionals, a caregiver comes to the home and helps with daily activities, personal care and companionship, so your loved one keeps their routine while you take some time for yourself.
A respite visit can last a few hours a day, cover a few days a week, or run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can set up a regular weekly schedule, or one-time coverage for a trip or a family event.
Timing depends on how urgent your situation is. In some cases we're able to begin services within a few hours of your first contact, and the assessment can be done over the phone when there isn't time to meet in person.
Medicare's respite coverage sits under the hospice benefit. For people on hospice, Medicare covers most of the cost of up to five days in a row of respite care in a hospital or skilled nursing facility, and the patient may pay 5% of the Medicare-approved amount for that inpatient respite care. Traditional Medicare generally doesn't cover ongoing non-medical care at home when that's the only care needed. Some long-term care insurance plans may help with respite, and eligible Medi-Cal members may qualify for authorized home care through CalAIM Community Supports.
Our rates are set by location, the amount of care needed and the number of clients in the home, and they include taxes, insurance, bonding, screening and workers' compensation. The assessment is free, and we can give you an exact quote after a few simple questions. Nationally, the median rate for in-home caregiver services was $35 an hour in 2025.
Many can. VA Home Respite Care pays for someone to come to a Veteran's home while the family caregiver takes a break, and all enrolled Veterans who meet the clinical criteria are eligible where the service is available, with a copay in some cases. HomeCare Professionals is a contracted provider for the VA's Homemaker and Home Health Aide program, which can also be used for respite care at home for Veterans and their family caregivers.
Yes. Our dementia care at home includes supervision to prevent wandering, companionship, making sure medications are taken on time and help with daily activities like dressing and bathing, all in the familiar setting of your loved one's own home.
Daly City Office
(650) 757-4717
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(925) 215-1214
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(707) 732-1874
South Bay Office
(408) 773-6871
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(916) 306-0141
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(559) 224-9442
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(530) 799-2942
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(530) 966-9849
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