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✓ NYS Licensed LHCSA — licensed by the NY Dept. of Health · not a registry
✓ Every HHA is our W-2 employee — background-checked, insured, RN-supervised
✓ Private pay and LTC insurance only · We do not participate in Medicaid
✓ Some clients have been with us for over a decade · continuity is what we build


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Home Care in DUMBO, Brooklyn NY 11201

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Home Care in DUMBO — At a Glance

  • Location: DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY · ZIP code 11201 · Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass
  • 7 Day Home Care: NYS Licensed LHCSA · W-2 HHAs · RN supervised · Private pay and LTC insurance only · 24/7 live answering
  • Services: Personal care · companion care · overnight care · live-in care · 24-hour care · dementia care · Alzheimer's care · dementia-resistant ADL assistance
  • Population: 4,975 · median household income $200,000+ · 93% college graduates · median age 38
  • Character: Name coined 1978 · artists 1970s–80s · luxury conversion from 1998 · DUMBO Historic District 2007
  • Architecture: Warehouse loft conversions (exposed brick, cast-iron, timber beams) · luxury glass towers · Belgian-block cobblestone streets (1800s)
  • Landmarks: Jane's Carousel · Brooklyn Bridge Park · Clock Tower Building · Olympia DUMBO · Washington St / Water St Instagram corner · The Cliffs at DUMBO
  • Longevity: Some 7 Day Home Care clients have been with us for over a decade
  • Overnight: Fall-risk overnight ✓ · Dementia overnight ✓ · 7 nights per week
  • Live-In Care: Available — ~$429/day · larger loft conversions especially well-suited
  • Flexible Scheduling: Mon–Fri 6-hr or 8-hr shifts · Mon–Fri 24-hr (two 12-hr shifts) · live-in · weekends added
  • Minimum HHA Shift: 6 hours per visit
  • LTC Insurance: 15 carriers · benefit verification · full claims management at no charge
  • Pricing: ~$33/hr · overnight ~$330/shift · live-in ~$429/day · 24-hr ~$792/day
  • Care Start: Typically within 24-48 hours


Call (516) 408-0034 · Live answering · 24 hours · 7 days a week


Non-Medical Private Duty Home Care in DUMBO — Personal Care · Alzheimer's and Dementia Care · Live-In Care · 15 Years of Long-Term Client Relationships · Long-Term Care Insurance | 7 Day Home Care | Brooklyn

Quick Answer — What Is 7 Day Home Care in DUMBO?
7 Day Home Care is a NYS Licensed LHCSA providing non-medical private duty home care in DUMBO, Brooklyn — ZIP code 11201. Every caregiver is a NYS Certified Home Health Aide: our W-2 employee, background-checked, insured, and supervised by a Registered Nurse. We maintain 24/7 live answering — a real person at any hour. Some of our Brooklyn clients have been with us for more than a decade: the continuity of a care relationship that families can count on year after year. We are private pay and LTC insurance only — 15 carriers accepted, all claims managed at no charge. The minimum HHA shift is six hours. Call (516) 408-0034.


Does 7 Day Home Care provide live-in caregiver care in DUMBO Brooklyn?
Yes. A single caregiver who lives in the DUMBO home — a Water Street warehouse loft conversion with timber beams and cast-iron columns, a Front Street luxury condo, or a tower apartment at Olympia DUMBO — throughout the day with appropriate overnight rest. Starting around $429 per day. DUMBO's larger loft conversions, with their generous floor plans and separated living areas, are among the most naturally suited live-in environments in Brooklyn. Call (516) 408-0034.


Can we start with Monday through Friday six-hour shifts? Do you provide live-in care?
Yes to both. Six hours per day, Monday through Friday, satisfies the minimum. Live-in care is available as a separate continuous arrangement, starting around $429 per day. Call (516) 408-0034.


Can we start with Monday through Friday 24-hour care and add weekends later?
Yes. Two 12-hour shifts per day, Monday through Friday, with weekends added as needed, is available from the first week. Call (516) 408-0034.


Does 7 Day Home Care have caregivers experienced with dementia patients who resist personal care?
Yes. Resistance to showering, bathing, and dressing is one of the most common dementia care challenges. 7 Day Home Care has caregivers specifically experienced in dementia-resistant ADL assistance — using behavioral approaches, careful timing, and relational trust-building to reduce resistance over weeks of consistent presence. The matching process for a dementia client with personal care resistance is more deliberate, not less. Call (516) 408-0034.


What is the minimum number of hours for a Home Health Aide in DUMBO?
The minimum shift is six hours per visit. Monday through Friday six-hour or eight-hour shifts, 24-hour weekday coverage, live-in care, and weekend overnight as a standalone are all available. Call (516) 408-0034.


Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass — A Name Designed to Fail

David Walentas coined the name "DUMBO" in 1978 deliberately — he wanted something that sounded undesirable, a name that would discourage outside interest while he quietly purchased industrial buildings on the waterfront at prices no one else was paying attention to. "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass" sounded like exactly the kind of place no one would want to live.


It didn't work.


The artists who found the cheap loft spaces in the 1970s and 1980s — drawn by the scale of former cardboard-box factories and Brillo-pad warehouses, by the cast-iron columns and timber beams and twelve-foot ceilings, by Belgian-block cobblestone streets that no one had yet redesignated as charming — created a community before anyone else was paying attention. The Clock Tower Building's luxury residential conversion in 1998 marked the moment DUMBO became something else. The DUMBO Historic District designation in 2007 protected what remained of the industrial architecture that the artists had first valued. Brooklyn Bridge Park opened in 2010. Jane's Carousel — an antique merry-go-round from Youngstown, Ohio, restored by Jane Walentas over decades and housed in a glass cube designed by Pritzker Prize laureate Jean Nouvel — became a neighborhood icon. Olympia DUMBO, rising 33 stories on Front Street, established $2,000-per-square-foot pricing and the neighborhood's position as one of the most expensive addresses in Brooklyn.


The median household income in DUMBO is $200,000 or more — the highest of any neighborhood in this Brooklyn area. 93% of residents hold a college degree. The population is 4,975 — one of the smallest in Brooklyn — making DUMBO one of the most intimate and distinctive residential communities in the borough.


The artists who moved in during the 1970s and 1980s are now in their seventies and eighties. They are the original DUMBO residents — the people who were there before the cobblestones were celebrated, before Jane's Carousel had a glass pavilion, before the Manhattan Bridge view was the most photographed corner in Brooklyn. Some of them are still here. Their lofts, renovated on their own terms over decades, are their homes and their identities in ways that no new-construction condo can replicate.


Home care in DUMBO serves these residents — and the adult children of DUMBO-adjacent families who live in the neighborhood's luxury towers and manage care for parents elsewhere in Brooklyn. Both are the people we talk to. Both are the reason we maintain 24/7 live answering. Call (516) 408-0034.


Quick Facts — DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY


  • DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY · ZIP code 11201 · 0.11 square miles · population 4,975
  • Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass · name coined 1978 by David Walentas to discourage development
  • Median household income $200,000+ — highest in the Brooklyn Bridge area · 93% college graduates · median age 38 · 55% family households
  • DUMBO Historic District (2007) · formerly DUMBO Industrial District (National Register)
  • Architecture: warehouse loft conversions (exposed brick, cast-iron, timber beams) + luxury glass towers · Belgian-block cobblestone streets dating to the 1800s
  • Brooklyn Bridge Park (85 acres, 6 converted piers) · Jane's Carousel (Jean Nouvel glass pavilion) · Olympia DUMBO (30 Front Street, 33 stories) · Clock Tower Building (99 Water Street)
  • The Cliffs at DUMBO — North America's largest outdoor bouldering gym · Brooklyn Tech Triangle headquarters
  • Key streets: Water Street · Front Street · Main Street · Washington Street · Jay Street · Plymouth Street
  • 7 Day Home Care: 100 Park Avenue, Suite 1600, New York, NY 10017 · 3000 Marcus Avenue, Lake Success, NY 11042 · (516) 408-0034


What It Means to Care for the Same Client for Ten Years

7 Day Home Care has been a licensed LHCSA for more than fifteen years. Some of our Brooklyn clients — in neighborhoods near DUMBO and throughout the borough — have been with us for over a decade.


That fact is worth pausing on.


Ten years means a caregiver who has known a client through the progression of a condition — through stable periods and difficult ones, through hospitalizations and recoveries, through the gradual changes that accumulate across a decade of aging. It means a family that has called the same care coordinator for years, who knows their parent's care plan and their family's communication preferences, and who can distinguish between a routine Tuesday update and something that requires immediate attention.


It means an agency that is still answering the phone in year eleven at the same number, with the same quality of care, and with institutional knowledge of this client and this family that no new arrangement can replicate.

This is what continuity means in home care. It is not simply a nice feature. It is the specific thing that makes a care arrangement genuinely safe over time — because the people managing the care know the client, not just the care plan.


When a DUMBO family calls us to discuss home care for a parent, we understand that we are not being asked to provide a service for a defined period. We are being asked to demonstrate that we are the agency worthy of a long-term relationship. We take that seriously.


When Accepting Care Means Accepting an Identity You're Not Ready to Accept

For some people, resistance to home care has little to do with the caregiver, the cost, or even the condition itself. It has to do with what accepting help would mean about who they are.


This shows up often among DUMBO residents who built strong creative or professional identities inside the same loft or studio space for decades — an artist, a designer, a longtime craftsperson whose sense of self is inseparable from the work and the space where it happened. For someone like this, a progressive condition like Parkinson's disease doesn't just create physical limitations. It threatens a specific self-conception: independent, self-sufficient, still fully the person who built this life, in this space, on their own terms. Accepting a caregiver into that space can feel less like a practical accommodation and more like an admission — a line crossed between "managing" and "needing help" that some people are genuinely not ready to cross, even when they fully understand, intellectually, that the help is warranted.


This is a specific and often overlooked reason a long-term care insurance policy sits unused for years despite everyone involved understanding exactly what it covers. The obstacle isn't confusion about the policy. It's what activating it represents.


A few things worth understanding if this describes your family's situation:

  • This kind of resistance is identity-based, not simply stubborn or irrational. Someone who has built a life around self-sufficiency may need to genuinely renegotiate their own self-conception before accepting help feels possible — that process takes real time and can't be rushed by explaining the policy's terms more clearly.
  • A fall, a near-miss, or another small event often becomes the moment things shift — not because the underlying need was suddenly greater, but because the moment made something real that had been intellectually understood but emotionally avoided.
  • The right caregiver match matters more here than almost anywhere else. For a client whose resistance is about identity rather than behavior, a caregiver who arrives with genuine curiosity about the person — their work, their space, what actually matters to them — succeeds where a caregiver focused purely on task completion often doesn't.
  • Respecting the space itself is part of respecting the person. For someone whose studio, workshop, or creative space is central to their identity, a caregiver who understands that the space isn't just a room, but the point of the home, tends to be accepted far more readily than one who doesn't.


What This Looks Like in Practice

  • A caregiver matching process that specifically screens for genuine interest, not just clinical skill — someone whose presence feels like support for the life the client has built, not an imposition on it.
  • An RN assessment that accounts for the client's specific daily patterns and the space's significance, not just physical safety factors in isolation.
  • A caregiver briefed to engage with the person's actual interests and identity from the first visit — asking about the work, the space, the view — rather than leading with the condition or the reason for the visit.
  • Patience with the pace of acceptance, recognizing that trust and comfort with care often build gradually, particularly when the underlying resistance is about identity rather than a simple scheduling or logistics preference.
  • Long-term care insurance verification and claims support, so that when someone is ready to use a policy that's been sitting untouched, activating it is straightforward rather than one more obstacle at an already difficult moment.


For DUMBO families supporting a loved one whose resistance to care is really about identity, the goal isn't convincing them the policy makes sense — they usually already know that. It's finding the caregiver whose presence doesn't ask them to become someone else, but supports the person they've always been.


This discussion reflects general considerations relevant to identity-based resistance to home care and long-term care insurance activation, and does not describe a specific 7 Day Home Care client.


Call (516) 408-0034.


The Right Caregiver for a DUMBO Household

Quick Answer — How Does 7 Day Home Care Match Caregivers in DUMBO?
Caregiver matching in DUMBO accounts for the specific care plan, the client's creative or professional identity, the home's specific layout — warehouse loft open-plan configurations, cast-iron structural columns, converted industrial staircases, luxury tower building protocols — and any conditions including dementia with personal care resistance. The right match is the foundation. If the first match is not right, we make an adjustment. Call (516) 408-0034.


The Loft Environment — What It Requires

DUMBO's warehouse loft conversions are architecturally spectacular and physically specific. Open-plan floor plans with cast-iron columns and minimal interior partitioning create wide sightlines with few natural support surfaces. Original industrial staircases — often more sculptural than functional — present specific fall-risk considerations. Bathroom placements within large open-plan spaces may require traversing significant floor area from the sleeping area. The light that makes DUMBO lofts remarkable is also the light that reveals every obstacle in a morning mobility routine.


The RN home assessment that precedes the first caregiver shift in a DUMBO loft is an assessment of this specific space — its specific fall-risk geography, the caregiver's briefing on the layout before the first morning begins. The caregiver arrives knowing this loft.


When the Chemistry Is Right — Productivity, Not Just Safety

In DUMBO's creative households, the right caregiver match produces something beyond safety. It produces a daily presence that the client comes to genuinely value — whose eye for the environment is not professional but personal, whose interest in the client's work is real rather than performed, and whose consistent reliability creates the specific trust that allows a fiercely independent person to accept support without feeling diminished by it.


When the chemistry is right between a DUMBO client and their caregiver, the care becomes productive in a way that extends creative independence rather than limiting it. The sculptor at the worktable is safer because someone consistent is there. The morning routine is manageable because the same familiar face has been doing it long enough to know exactly what sequence works. The loft is not a place the client endures — it remains the place they chose.


This is what home care, at its best, does. It does not end the life that was built in the loft. It makes continuing that life possible.


Resistance to Personal Care in Dementia — A DUMBO Consideration

For DUMBO's older artists and creative professionals living with dementia, resistance to showering and dressing can carry specific weight. The person who maintained an exacting personal aesthetic throughout their creative life — who dressed for studio visits, who curated the appearance of their workspace — does not lose that identity when dementia changes their relationship to the morning routine. The distress of personal care resistance in this context reflects the collision between a strong self-image and what the dementia is making possible on a given morning.


7 Day Home Care has caregivers specifically experienced in dementia-resistant ADL assistance — who build enough relational trust over enough mornings that the bathroom stops being a confrontation and the morning routine becomes something both parties have developed together. If the first match is not right, we make an adjustment. Call (516) 408-0034.


Companionship Along the Cobblestone Streets

The morning walk to the Water Street coffee shop. Jane's Carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Manhattan Bridge corner on Washington Street. The Cliffs at DUMBO and the sound of climbing traffic on a warm afternoon. For the DUMBO resident whose mobility has changed and whose daily engagement with the neighborhood has contracted, the companion caregiver who makes those outings possible is restoring the daily life that makes the loft worth staying in.


Research on social isolation and aging is unambiguous: daily loneliness in older adults accelerates cognitive decline, increases fall risk, and elevates depression rates. In a neighborhood of fewer than 5,000 residents where most of the daily activity is oriented toward tech workers and tourists, an older adult in a warehouse loft whose mobility has changed faces specific isolation risks. The companion caregiver's consistent daily presence is the specific intervention that prevents those outcomes.


What 24/7 Access and 10+ Years of Continuity Actually Mean

Two things about 7 Day Home Care that DUMBO families consistently identify as significant:


24/7 live answering. Not a voicemail. Not an answering service that takes a message. A real person who can address the situation — at 3am when a caregiver cannot make a scheduled shift, at 9pm on a Saturday when a care concern has arisen, at any hour when the situation is real and the family needs to speak with someone who has access to the care plan and the authority to act on it.


For a DUMBO family managing a parent in a loft whose open-plan configuration has specific fall-risk implications, or managing a parent in another Brooklyn neighborhood from a DUMBO apartment, 24/7 live answering is not a convenience feature. It is the difference between a manageable situation and an emergency.


Long-term client relationships. Some of 7 Day Home Care's Brooklyn clients have been with us for over a decade. That continuity reflects two things: caregiver matches that were right from the beginning and that have been maintained over years, and agency management that has earned enough trust to remain the family's partner across an entire decade of a parent's aging.


The family that started care with us for Monday-Wednesday-Friday morning shifts after a 2014 hip replacement, that moved to five-day coverage after a 2017 cognitive decline, that added weekend overnight after a 2020 dementia diagnosis, and that is still with us in 2026 — that family knows what a long-term care relationship with a licensed agency actually provides. Not just a service. A relationship with institutional knowledge of their parent.

Call (516) 408-0034.


Long-Term Care Insurance — For Every Stage of the Conversation

The story above captures one specific version of the LTC insurance challenge: the policy that was known and understood but emotionally avoided. DUMBO families come to the LTC insurance conversation from many different starting points.


If your family has an LTC policy and the client is ready to activate it: 7 Day Home Care verifies the current compounded daily benefit, confirms the benefit trigger qualification, submits the initial claim, and manages all ongoing documentation at no charge. The benefit is almost certainly larger than the original amount — compound inflation riders grow significantly over 20+ years. Call (516) 408-0034.


If your family has an LTC policy but the client has been reluctant to use it: The caregiver match matters more than the paperwork. Finding the right person first — the caregiver with the right presence for this specific client in this specific loft — often makes activating the policy possible when nothing else has. Call (516) 408-0034 and let us talk about the matching first.


If no LTC policy exists: Funding options depend on age, health, and assets. We will have an honest conversation about what is realistic and, where appropriate, refer you to an independent LTC insurance broker. Call (516) 408-0034.


CNA · Brighthouse · Genworth · Mutual of Omaha · MetLife · Transamerica · John Hancock · New York Life · Northwestern Mutual · MassMutual · Lincoln Benefit Life · UNUM · AIG · American Heritage · Bankers Life


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Services Available in DUMBO, Brooklyn

Personal Care and Home Health Aide Services

Hands-on daily assistance by NYS Certified HHAs throughout DUMBO — warehouse loft conversions on Water, Front, Main, and Washington Streets; luxury towers including Olympia DUMBO; and all residential buildings in ZIP code 11201. Minimum six-hour shift. Flexible scheduling: Monday–Friday six or eight hours/day · 24-hour weekday coverage · live-in care · weekend overnight standalone. The RN home assessment covers the specific loft or apartment layout — open-plan fall-risk geography, bathroom placement, staircase configuration — before the first shift. Learn more: Personal Care Services


Companion Care

Accompanied walks to Brooklyn Bridge Park, Jane's Carousel, the Manhattan Bridge corner, and along the cobblestone streets that have been the neighborhood's daily backdrop for decades. For the DUMBO resident whose daily engagement with the waterfront has become uncertain, the companion caregiver who makes those outings possible is maintaining the connection to the specific place that defines life here. Learn more: Companion Care Services


Live-In Care

A single caregiver in the DUMBO loft throughout the day with appropriate overnight rest. Starting around $429 per day. DUMBO's larger warehouse loft conversions — with generous square footage, separate bedroom areas, and the spatial generosity of former industrial spaces — are among the most naturally suited live-in environments in Brooklyn. Most effective for dementia clients and for clients managing complex daily needs in open-plan spaces. Call (516) 408-0034.


Overnight Care — Fall Risk and Dementia Supervision

Non-medical overnight supervision throughout DUMBO — any nights, with weekend overnight as a standalone. For fall-risk clients: open-plan loft fall-risk geography documented in the RN home assessment. For dementia clients: wandering prevention calibrated to the specific loft layout, sundowning management, consistent overnight presence from the same familiar caregiver. Learn more: Overnight Care


Alzheimer's and Dementia Care

Non-medical in-home dementia care across all types and all stages. Consistent caregiver assignment is the foundational care priority. For DUMBO dementia clients whose creative identity and specific loft environment remain part of who they are, the caregiver who enters that space with genuine understanding — who has a good eye — provides care that no clinical protocol alone can specify. Learn more: Alzheimer's and Dementia Care


Pricing — Home Care in DUMBO, Brooklyn

  • Hourly Home Care — starting around $33 per hour (minimum 6-hour HHA shift)
  • Overnight Care — starting around $330 per shift
  • Live-In Care — starting around $429 per day
  • 24-Hour Rotating Care (two 12-hour shifts) — starting around $792 per day


General reference ranges only. Long-term care insurance may cover most or all costs. If the barrier to activating the policy is the identity question rather than the paperwork, call us — the caregiver match often makes the threshold crossable. Call (516) 408-0034.


Frequently Asked Questions — Home Care in DUMBO, Brooklyn


Does 7 Day Home Care serve all of DUMBO, including loft conversions and luxury towers?

Yes. 7 Day Home Care provides non-medical home care throughout DUMBO, ZIP code 11201 — warehouse loft conversions on Water, Front, Main, and Washington Streets; luxury towers including Olympia DUMBO; and all residential buildings. Building access protocols and loft-specific open-plan assessment are established before the first shift. Call (516) 408-0034.


How long has 7 Day Home Care been serving Brooklyn families?

More than 15 years. Some Brooklyn clients have been with 7 Day Home Care for over a decade — a continuity of care relationship that reflects caregiver matches maintained over years and agency management that has earned long-term family trust. Call (516) 408-0034.


What is the minimum number of hours for a Home Health Aide in DUMBO?

The minimum shift is six hours per visit. Monday through Friday six-hour or eight-hour shifts, 24-hour weekday coverage, live-in care, and weekend overnight as a standalone are all available. Call (516) 408-0034.


Do you have live-in caregiver schedules for DUMBO Brooklyn?

Yes. Live-in care — a single caregiver in the DUMBO home throughout the day with appropriate overnight rest — is available throughout ZIP 11201 starting around $429 per day. DUMBO's larger loft conversions are particularly well-suited. Call (516) 408-0034.


Can we start with Monday through Friday six-hour shifts? Do you provide live-in care?

Yes to both. Six-hour weekday shifts satisfy the minimum. Live-in care is available as a separate continuous arrangement. Both can transition as care needs evolve. Call (516) 408-0034.


My parent is a DUMBO artist in his seventies with Parkinson's who is resistant to accepting help — how do you approach that?

The resistance you are describing is identity-based, not behavioral — the resistance of someone who has built a life on self-sufficiency in a loft they have occupied for decades. 7 Day Home Care's intake process specifically addresses this situation. We look for caregivers whose genuine interest in the client's environment and work makes their presence feel like support rather than intrusion. The caregiver with a good eye, in Martin's words. If the first match is not right, we make an adjustment. Call (516) 408-0034.


My parent has dementia and resists showering and dressing — how do you approach that?

This is one of the most common and distressing situations in dementia care. 7 Day Home Care matches caregivers specifically experienced in dementia-resistant personal care assistance — building relational trust before care begins, working at the client's pace, using behavioral approaches that reduce resistance over consistent weeks. Call (516) 408-0034.


What if the chemistry between my parent and the caregiver is not ideal?

If the match is not working for any reason, we make a caregiver adjustment. When the chemistry is right, the care becomes genuinely productive — the client does more, engages more, and maintains greater independence. Finding that match is the most important thing we do. Call (516) 408-0034.


Can 7 Day Home Care provide weekend overnight fall-risk supervision in DUMBO?

Yes. Weekend overnight fall-risk supervision — including open-plan loft fall-risk management documented in the RN home assessment — is available throughout DUMBO as a standalone arrangement seven nights per week. Call (516) 408-0034.


Can 7 Day Home Care provide weekend overnight dementia supervision in DUMBO?

Yes. Wandering prevention calibrated to the specific loft layout, sundowning management, and consistent overnight presence from the same familiar caregiver are available throughout DUMBO seven nights per week. Call (516) 408-0034.


Does 7 Day Home Care have caregivers experienced in Alzheimer's and dementia care in DUMBO?

Yes. Caregivers with specific Alzheimer's and dementia experience — consistent assignment, wandering supervision, sundowning management, personal care resistance management — assigned to every DUMBO dementia client. Call (516) 408-0034.


Is 7 Day Home Care accessible 24 hours a day?

Yes. 24/7 live answering — a real person, not a voicemail. For DUMBO families managing care in an open-plan loft or coordinating from a DUMBO apartment on behalf of a parent elsewhere in Brooklyn, this accessibility is the difference between a manageable situation and an emergency. Call (516) 408-0034 any time.


We have a long-term care insurance policy but my parent has been emotionally reluctant to activate it — how do you approach that?

More carefully than the paperwork. The identity question — the threshold between managing independently and accepting help — is often what makes activation feel impossible. Finding the right caregiver first, before the forms are filed, sometimes makes the threshold crossable when nothing else has. Call (516) 408-0034 and let us talk about the matching first.


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Licensed. Supervised. Responsive. Here for the Long Term.

7 Day Home Care is a New York State licensed LHCSA, licensed by the New York State Department of Health to provide non-medical home care throughout DUMBO, all of Brooklyn, New York City, and Long Island. We are private pay and LTC insurance only — we do not participate in Medicaid or CDPAP.


Every caregiver is a NYS Certified Home Health Aide — our W-2 employee, background-checked, insured, and supervised by our Registered Nurse. All care is private duty. The same caregiver is assigned consistently from the first shift — and, for some Brooklyn families, for many years beyond.


We maintain 24/7 live answering. A real person answers every call, at every hour. And some of our clients have been with us for over a decade — not because we ask them to stay, but because the relationship has earned it.

Our caregivers speak English, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Tagalog, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, French, Italian, and additional languages.


For emergencies, call 911.


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The Caregiver With a Good Eye

Sometimes the highest compliment a client can give a caregiver isn't about kindness or efficiency. For a longtime artist resisting help for years, it might be simpler: she has a good eye. She noticed the work. She understood the space wasn't just a room — it was the point of being there at all.


That's often what it takes to cross the threshold that keeps a policy sitting unused for years: not more explanation of what it covers, but the right person arriving at the door — someone whose presence supports the life already built there, rather than asking anyone to become someone else.


7 Day Home Care brings the same attentiveness to every DUMBO loft — every warehouse conversion on Water Street and Front Street, every cobblestone block between the two great bridges, every resident who chose this neighborhood because of what it was and who intends to remain in it.



If a parent or loved one has been putting off care because accepting it feels like accepting something they're not ready to accept, the right caregiver match can matter more than any explanation ever could.


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Personal

Care

7 Day Home Care is committed to bringing your family the highest level of personal care. Our dedicated caregivers assist with the activities of daily living while keeping our client safe. Providing safely to our clients is crucial to aging in the home. Our personalized approach includes meeting each family and developing a care plan specific to each clients needs. 


Our  DUMBO, Brooklyn Caregivers Assist With:


  • Showering and bathing
  • Toileting
  • Dressing
  • Transferring
  • Ambulation 
  • Medication reminders
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Companion

Care

 Social interaction and companionship are key to positive mental health. This doesn't change when we get older, though many activities become more difficult, such as seeing friends and family. 7 Day Home Care can provide a caregiver in a private residence, during a stay in the hospital, nursing home or rehabilitation center. 


Our  DUMBO, Brooklyn Caregivers Assist With:


  • Light housekeeping
  • Planning & scheduling appts
  • Meal preparation
  • Cards & Board Games
  • Company for errands/appts. 
  • Laundry services

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Overnight

Care

Overnight care is provided to help people who have trouble sleeping through the night or tend to wake up disoriented. Overnight care is also beneficial for clients with dementia who tend to wander and once asleep we ensure they remain safe.


Our  DUMBO, Brooklyn Caregivers Assist With:


  • Fall Prevention
  • Medication Reminders
  • Bedtime Hygiene
  • Meal Preparation
  • Showering & Dressing
  • Incontinence Care
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Alzheimer's and Dementia Care

Our 7 Day Home Care team has years of experience and training, which is why we understand that extra attention and tender compassionate care must be the foundation for all our services. Alzheimer’s has no current cure, but treatments for symptoms are available and research continues. Although current treatments cannot stop the disease from progressing, they can temporarily slow the worsening of symptoms and improve quality of life.