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✓ Every Home Health Aide is our W-2 employee — background-checked, insured, RN-supervised

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Home Health Aide and Personal Care Services

for Seniors in NYC and Long Island, NY

Home Health Aide & Personal Care — At a Glance

Service Type: Non-medical personal care by NYS Certified Home Health Aides
What It Covers: Bathing · dressing · grooming · mobility & transfers · toileting · incontinence care · meal preparation · medication reminders · post-surgical movement support · safety supervision
What It Does Not Cover: Medical diagnosis · skilled nursing · wound care · injections · physical or occupational therapy
Service Territory: Manhattan · Brooklyn · Queens · Nassau County · Suffolk County
Care Start: Typically within 24-48 hours · discharge coordination available before hospital or rehab departure
Schedule Options: Hourly (4-hour minimum) · overnight · live-in · 24-hour rotating
Pricing: Starting at $33/hour · see pricing section for full ranges
LTC Insurance: 15 carriers accepted · full claims management at no charge
Supervision: Every HHA supervised by Registered Nurse
Availability: 24 hours · 7 days a week
License: NYS Licensed LHCSA — NY Dept. of Health

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Non-Medical Hands-On Daily Care by NYS Certified Home Health Aides — Bathing, Dressing, Mobility, and Post-Discharge Support Across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County

Quick Answer — What Is Personal Care for Seniors? Personal care is non-medical, hands-on daily assistance provided in the home by a NYS Certified Home Health Aide — supporting older adults with the physical tasks of daily life that have become difficult or unsafe to manage alone: bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers, toileting, and incontinence care. It is the service that bridges the gap between independent daily function and the need for a nursing home or assisted living facility — keeping an older adult safely in their own home by providing the physical support their body now requires. Personal care is non-medical. 7 Day Home Care provides personal care throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County. Call (516) 408-0034.

How much does personal care / home health aide service cost in NYC and Long Island?

Personal care in NYC and Long Island typically starts at approximately $33 per hour with a 4-hour minimum. Overnight care starts around $330 per shift. Live-in care starts around $429 per day. 24-hour care starts around $792 per day. General reference ranges only — not a pricing guarantee. Long-term care insurance may offset costs significantly. Call (516) 408-0034 for exact pricing.

Does Medicare cover personal care from a home health aide?

Not for non-medical personal care. Medicare covers physician-ordered skilled home health care — nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy — following a qualifying hospitalization. Non-medical personal care is funded through private pay or long-term care insurance. See the FAQ below. Call (516) 408-0034.

How quickly can personal care begin in NYC or Long Island?

Personal care typically begins within 24-48 hours. For post-discharge situations — a parent leaving NYU Langone Long Island, NYP Brooklyn Methodist, Jamaica Hospital, or a rehabilitation facility — we coordinate with the discharge team to have an HHA confirmed before the client leaves. Call (516) 408-0034.

There is a moment that most families recognize and almost none of them planned for.

It is the morning when a parent who has lived independently in their Manhattan apartment or their Great Neck colonial or their Jamaica Estates Tudor Revival or their Prospect Heights brownstone for decades cannot safely manage the shower alone. The step into the tub is the step that changed. The transfer from the bed to the standing position is the movement that now requires a second person. The dressing routine that took twenty minutes now takes an hour and ends in exhaustion rather than readiness.

Personal care is the professional answer to that specific morning. Not a nursing home. Not assisted living. A trained, certified Home Health Aide — present in the home, at the time when the physical support is needed, providing the assistance that makes the day begin safely — while the parent remains in the apartment or the house or the brownstone or the colonial that is still, and should remain, home.

At 7 Day Home Care, personal care is provided by New York State Certified Home Health Aides who are our W-2 employees — background-checked, insured, and supervised by Registered Nurses. Not placed from a registry. Not independent contractors whose absence creates a gap the family must fill. Members of our care team, trained in the specific physical protocols relevant to this client's condition, familiar with the specific layout of this home, and matched to the household's language and cultural context before the first shift begins.

We provide personal care throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County — in the Prospect Heights brownstone with its narrow bathroom and steep interior staircase, in the Battery Park City high-rise with its wide hallways and elevator access, in the Jamaica Estates colonial with its split-level step transitions, in the Manhasset ranch with its original 1950s tub configuration, in the Huntington split-level that requires a specific transfer protocol on the three-step landing between the bedroom floor and the main floor. Every home is different. Every client's condition is different. The personal care plan starts from that specificity.

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What Is the Difference Between Personal Care and Companion Care?

Quick Answer — Personal Care vs. Companion Care: What Is the Difference? Personal care focuses on hands-on physical assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers, toileting, and incontinence care — the Activities of Daily Living that have become difficult or unsafe to manage independently. Companion care focuses on social engagement, emotional support, daily routine structure, and the relational presence that reduces isolation. Many clients need both. The same caregiver can provide both services in the same visit. Call (516) 408-0034 to discuss which is the right starting point.

Personal Care (Home Health Aide Services) Includes

Bathing and personal hygiene assistance — shower, tub, or bed bath depending on the client's mobility and condition
Dressing and grooming — selecting and putting on clothing, hair care, oral hygiene
Transfer assistance — bed to chair, chair to standing, safe repositioning
Mobility assistance and ambulation support within the home
Toileting and continence care — provided with dignity and respect as a clinical care function
Incontinence management
Post-surgical movement support per occupational and physical therapy discharge notes
Meal preparation and eating assistance
Medication reminders — non-medical; the HHA reminds, does not administer
Light housekeeping and laundry
Safety supervision and fall prevention
Observational reporting to the family and RN care team

Companion Care Adds

Consistent daily social engagement and conversation Accompanied outings — walks, errands, appointments, cultural events Shared activities — reading, games, hobbies Extended companionship for clients whose primary need is reduced isolation and daily routine structure rather than physical care

Learn more: Companion Care Services

When Families Need Both

Many clients whose primary presenting need is personal care also benefit significantly from companion care — the parent whose morning shower requires HHA assistance and whose afternoon isolation is just as significant a daily challenge. When both services are needed, the same caregiver typically provides both in the same shift. Call (516) 408-0034 to discuss the arrangement that fits.

What Does a Home Health Aide Actually Do?

Quick Answer — What Does a Home Health Aide Do Each Day? A 7 Day Home Care Home Health Aide arrives at the agreed time, completes the personal care plan developed through the RN assessment — which includes the specific physical protocols for this client's condition, the layout of this home, and the sequence of morning or evening care tasks — provides hands-on assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers, and toileting, assists with meal preparation and medication reminders, maintains light household order, and documents any changes in the client's daily physical status for the RN care team and the family. The care plan is not a generic template. It is built from the RN assessment of this specific client in this specific home.

Bathing and Personal Hygiene

The bathroom is the highest-risk room in every home we serve. The HHA's approach to it is never casual.

Dignified, respectful assistance with showering, bathing, or bed bathing depending on the client's current mobility and condition. In a Prospect Heights brownstone bathroom — typically narrow, with an original tub, no grab bars, and a step-over threshold — the bathing protocol requires specific positioning and physical support developed by the RN assessment before the first shift. In a Battery Park City LEED-certified condominium bathroom — wider, often with a roll-in shower — the same care is delivered in a more accessible physical environment but with the same professional standard. The protocol is always specific to the bathroom the client actually has.

Dressing and Grooming

Assistance selecting and putting on clothing, managing fasteners, and supporting the dressing sequence that a post-surgical protocol or neurological condition has made difficult. For a client recovering from hip replacement surgery, the dressing protocol follows the occupational therapist's specific post-surgical instructions — which the HHA receives, reviews, and implements before the first morning at home. For a client with Parkinson's disease, the dressing sequence accounts for rigidity and tremor. For a client with advanced arthritis, it accounts for grip and range-of-motion limitations. Dressing assistance is a condition-specific protocol, not a generic task.

Transfer Assistance and Mobility Support

Safe movement from bed to standing, from standing to chair, from chair to toilet — the transfers that represent the highest fall-risk moments in most home care arrangements. The RN assessment documents the specific transfer protocol for this client's condition and this home's layout: the height of the bed, the configuration of the bathroom relative to the bedroom, the presence and placement of grab bars, and the step transitions in a split-level Jamaica Estates home or a garden-level Prospect Heights apartment. Ambulation support within the home — walker guidance, gait belt use where appropriate, staircase protocols — is developed from the same assessment.

Toileting and Continence Care

Provided consistently and without exception with dignity and professionalism. This is a clinical care function, delivered by a trained HHA as a non-medical component of personal care. For many families, the need for toileting assistance is what makes the decision to arrange professional personal care both urgent and emotionally significant. A trained, professional, respectful HHA handles this aspect of care as naturally and competently as any other component of the daily plan.

Post-Surgical Care and Discharge Support

For clients returning home from joint replacement surgery at LIJ Forest Hills or North Shore University Hospital, cardiac surgery at NYP Brooklyn Methodist, stroke treatment at Jamaica Hospital, or any acute care hospitalization, the HHA's morning routine follows the occupational and physical therapy discharge notes received from the facility. We coordinate with the facility's discharge planning team before the client leaves — conducting the RN home assessment of the specific residence, reviewing the discharge notes, confirming the HHA assignment, and in many cases having the HHA meet the client at the facility on discharge morning to accompany them home.

Medication Reminders

Home Health Aides provide non-medical medication reminders — confirming that the client has taken scheduled medications at the appropriate time. They do not administer medications, adjust dosages, or provide clinical oversight. This is a non-medical function performed at the direction of the family and care team.

Safety Supervision and Reporting

The HHA's daily physical presence is the most effective fall-prevention and safety-monitoring tool available in the home care setting. Changes in gait, skin condition, appetite, cognition, or pain presentation are observed and reported to the 7 Day Home Care Registered Nurse and to the family. For adult children managing a parent's post-surgical or chronic-condition care from a distance, this observational and communicative function is often the most practically important service the HHA provides between acute care moments.

What Are ADLs — Activities of Daily Living?

Quick Answer — What Are ADLs and Why Do They Matter for Home Care? Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) are the routine physical tasks that individuals perform daily to maintain personal care and independent function. They are used by healthcare providers, insurance carriers, and home care agencies as the standard measure for determining the level of personal care support an individual requires. Most long-term care insurance policies define benefit eligibility by the number of ADLs with which the insured person requires assistance — typically two or more ADLs triggers benefits under most policies. If your parent requires assistance with bathing and dressing, in most cases their long-term care insurance benefit eligibility condition has already been met. 7 Day Home Care Home Health Aides assist with all six standard ADLs throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County.

The six standard ADLs are:

Bathing — cleaning and grooming oneself, including showering, tub bathing, or bed bathing. Requires physical dexterity, balance, and the ability to step over a tub threshold or manage a shower safely. Often the first ADL with which older adults require assistance following surgery, a fall, or the progression of a neurological condition.

Dressing — selecting appropriate clothing and putting it on, including managing fasteners, footwear, and compression garments. Requires range of motion, grip strength, and the ability to balance during the lower-body portion of the sequence — movements that post-surgical protocols and many neurological conditions directly affect.

Eating — self-feeding, including the ability to use utensils, bring food to the mouth, and swallow safely. HHA assistance with eating ranges from meal preparation and plating to direct physical assistance for clients whose fine motor control or swallowing function requires support.

Transferring — moving safely from one position to another: bed to standing, standing to chair, chair to toilet, in and out of vehicles. Transfers are the highest-risk physical movement in most home environments and the most common context for falls requiring hospitalization.

Toileting — using the toilet, maintaining personal hygiene, and managing continence-related care with dignity and without interruption to daily routine.

Continence — maintaining control over bladder and bowel functions, or managing incontinence with the appropriate care protocols when control is no longer consistently possible.

IADLs — Instrumental Activities of Daily Living

Beyond the six standard ADLs, Home Health Aides also assist with IADLs — Instrumental Activities of Daily Living, the tasks that support independent living in the broader environment: meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, medication reminders, and transportation accompaniment. IADLs are typically where personal care and companion care overlap most naturally in a combined care arrangement.

Non-Medical Personal Care Services — Full List

Hourly Personal Care · Overnight Personal Care · Live-In Personal Care · 24-Hour Rotating Personal Care
Bathing and personal hygiene assistance
Dressing and grooming
Transfer assistance and safe repositioning
Mobility assistance and ambulation support within the home
Toileting and continence care
Incontinence management
Post-surgical movement support per discharge notes
Meal preparation and eating assistance
Medication reminders (non-medical)
Light housekeeping and laundry
Safety supervision and fall monitoring
Observational reporting to family and RN care team
Post-discharge coordination with hospital and rehab facility discharge teams
Multilingual personal care — see language list below
Personal care in assisted living facilities, memory care units, and nursing homes

Caregiver Languages: English · Spanish · Mandarin · Cantonese · Hindi · Urdu · Bengali · Punjabi · Haitian Creole · Russian · Hebrew · Yiddish · Tagalog · Arabic · Italian · French · Portuguese · more

Backup Coverage: In the rare event a scheduled HHA cannot arrive, 7 Day Home Care arranges a qualified replacement. Shifts are not left uncovered.

All services are non-medical. 7 Day Home Care does not provide medical diagnosis, treatment, skilled nursing, or clinical home health services.

A Family That Got It Right at Discharge

A family in Manhasset contacted us on a Thursday. Their mother — eighty-one, who had lived in the same colonial on Plandome Road since 1986 — had undergone knee replacement surgery at North Shore University Hospital four days earlier. The surgery had gone well. The discharge was scheduled for Saturday morning.

What was not going well was the Thursday call from the hospital's discharge planner, who explained that the patient was returning to a two-story colonial with the bedroom on the second floor, an original 1960s bathroom with a tub and no grab bars, and a full interior staircase between the ground floor and the bedroom. The discharge planner wanted confirmation that professional home care would be in place before the patient was released.

Their daughter had called us because a neighbor — whose own mother had been our client after a hip replacement two years earlier — had given her our number at ten o'clock on a Wednesday night.

We spoke with the daughter on Thursday morning. She described the Plandome Road colonial, the second-floor bedroom, the 1960s bathroom, and the specific post-surgical left knee movement protocol the orthopedic team at North Shore had developed. She also mentioned that her mother had a John Hancock long-term care insurance policy from 1998.

We verified the John Hancock policy within forty-eight hours. Coverage was active. Elimination period: 100 days, with fifteen already satisfied.

We conducted the RN home assessment of the Plandome Road colonial on Friday morning — the day before discharge. The assessment documented the interior staircase, the bathroom tub threshold height, the absence of grab bars, the bedroom layout relative to the bathroom door, and the specific weight-bearing restrictions from the North Shore surgical team. A grab bar was installed by the family that afternoon. The staircase protocol — specific to a left knee replacement with the weight-bearing restriction in effect — was developed and documented before discharge day.

The HHA met her at North Shore University Hospital on Saturday morning and accompanied her home to Plandome Road.

Her daughter called us on Monday.

"She showered this morning. The HHA knew exactly what to do — the protocol, the grab bar, the sequence of movements. My mother said it was the first time she had felt safe in the bathroom in years, not just since the surgery. The John Hancock policy covered almost everything. I wish I had called you before Thursday."

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Personal Care After Hospital or Rehabilitation Discharge

Quick Answer — How Does Personal Care Coordination Work After a Hospital or Rehab Discharge? When an older adult is discharged from a hospital or rehabilitation facility and returns home — to a Brooklyn brownstone, a Queens colonial, a Nassau County ranch, or a Manhattan high-rise — the physical care demands of the first days and weeks at home are at their most intense. Post-surgical dressing protocols, transfer restrictions, bathroom safety, and staircase navigation are all determined by the discharge notes and the specific layout of the home the client is returning to. 7 Day Home Care coordinates personal care with discharge planning teams before the client leaves the facility: we receive the discharge notes, conduct the RN home assessment, confirm the HHA assignment, and aim to have the caregiver meet the client at the facility on discharge morning.

Hospitals and rehabilitation facilities whose discharge teams we coordinate with include:

NYU Langone Hospital — Long Island · Mineola, Nassau County North Shore University Hospital · Manhasset, Nassau County NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital · Park Slope, Brooklyn Long Island Jewish Forest Hills — Northwell Health · Forest Hills, Queens Jamaica Hospital Medical Center · Jamaica, Queens Huntington Hospital — Northwell Health · Huntington, Suffolk County Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center · Jamaica, Queens Downtown Brooklyn Nursing and Rehabilitation Center · Brooklyn New Carlton Rehabilitation and Nursing Center · Brooklyn Parker Jewish Institute · New Hyde Park, Nassau County

The RN Home Assessment Before Discharge Day

Every personal care arrangement begins with a Registered Nurse home assessment conducted before care starts — and for post-discharge clients, before the discharge date whenever possible. The assessment evaluates the specific home the client is returning to: the bathroom configuration and tub threshold, the staircase height and railing placement, the bedroom-to-bathroom pathway, and the specific post-surgical or neurological movement restrictions from the discharge notes. For the homes we serve across our service area — from the Prospect Heights brownstone to the Jamaica Estates Tudor Revival to the Battery Park City condominium — the protocols are documented before discharge day, not discovered on the first morning home.

The assessment is conducted by our Registered Nurse. The results are documented, shared with the family, and form the basis of the HHA's daily care plan.

Personal Care and Long-Term Care Insurance

Quick Answer — Does Long-Term Care Insurance Cover Personal Care from a Home Health Aide? Yes, in most cases. Most long-term care insurance policies specifically cover non-medical personal care provided by a Home Health Aide from a licensed LHCSA when the insured person requires assistance with two or more Activities of Daily Living. 7 Day Home Care manages benefit verification, claims submission, and all ongoing documentation at no charge. Call (516) 408-0034 to verify your specific policy.

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

The ADL threshold and why it matters: Most long-term care insurance policies define benefit eligibility as the insured person requiring assistance with two or more of the six standard ADLs. Bathing and dressing — the two ADLs most commonly requiring assistance first — together satisfy the two-ADL threshold for most policies. If your parent needs help with the morning shower and with getting dressed, in most cases their long-term care insurance benefit eligibility condition has been met. Call (516) 408-0034 before making assumptions about coverage.

A note on elimination periods: Most policies include an elimination period — typically 30, 60, or 90 days — during which qualifying care must be received before ongoing benefits begin. Personal care from a licensed LHCSA counts toward satisfying that period from the first day of service. Starting care at the point of discharge from the hospital or rehabilitation facility begins the clock immediately. Full detail in the FAQ below.

What Does Personal Care Cost in NYC and Long Island?

Quick Answer — How Much Does Personal Care from a Home Health Aide Cost in New York? Personal care in NYC and Long Island typically starts at approximately $33 per hour with a 4-hour minimum. Overnight care starts around $330 per shift. Live-in care starts around $429 per day. 24-hour care starts around $792 per day. General reference ranges only — not a guarantee. Long-term care insurance may offset the majority of costs for eligible clients. Call (516) 408-0034 for a personalized consultation.

Hourly Personal Care — starting around $33 per hour (4-6 hour minimum)
Overnight Personal Care — starting around $330 per shift
Live-In Personal Care — starting around $429 per day
24-Hour Personal Care — starting around $792 per day

General reference ranges only — not a pricing guarantee. Call (516) 408-0034.

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When Do Families Arrange Personal Care?

Families typically contact us when a specific physical change makes independent daily function unsafe or impractical — most often a hospital or rehabilitation discharge, a fall, a progressive condition that has crossed a threshold, or the morning when a parent is found to have been managing the shower alone in a way that the family realizes, suddenly and clearly, is no longer safe.

Families often describe noticing or experiencing:

A discharge from a hospital or rehabilitation facility — from North Shore, from NYU Langone Long Island, from NYP Brooklyn Methodist, from Jamaica Hospital — with a return to a home whose bathroom, staircase, or bedroom layout requires specific daily physical support the family cannot consistently provide
A fall in the bathroom or on the interior staircase — or a near-fall the parent mentioned in passing that the family is now retrieving from memory with urgency
A parent who has been managing the morning routine — shower, dressing, transfers — alone in a way that works most days and on one specific day did not
Progressive Parkinson's disease or post-stroke weakness that has made the morning dressing sequence take an hour and leave the parent exhausted before the day begins
An adult child visiting and seeing, for the first time in months, that the physical reality of daily life in the parent's home is different from what the phone calls described
The discovery that a long-term care insurance policy defines benefit eligibility by ADL assistance needs — and that their parent requires assistance with two or more ADLs and the policy's benefit eligibility condition has already been met

Frequently Asked Questions About Personal Care and Home Health Aide Services in NYC and Long Island

What is personal care for seniors?

Personal care is non-medical, hands-on daily assistance provided in the home by a NYS Certified Home Health Aide — supporting older adults with bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers, toileting, incontinence care, meal preparation, and safety supervision. It is the service that keeps an older adult safely in their own home by providing the physical support their body now requires for daily function. 7 Day Home Care provides personal care throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County. Call (516) 408-0034.

What does a home health aide do?

A Home Health Aide provides hands-on assistance with the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs): bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers, toileting, and continence care. They also assist with meal preparation, medication reminders, light housekeeping, and safety supervision. Their daily care plan is developed from a Registered Nurse home assessment specific to the client's condition and home environment. All services are non-medical.

What is the difference between personal care and companion care?

Personal care focuses on hands-on physical assistance with bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers, and toileting. Companion care focuses on social engagement, emotional presence, daily routine structure, and reducing isolation. Many clients need both, and the same caregiver can provide both in the same visit. Learn more: Companion Care Services

What are ADLs and why do they matter for home care?

ADLs — Activities of Daily Living — are the six standard physical tasks used to measure functional independence: bathing, dressing, eating, transferring, toileting, and continence. Most long-term care insurance policies define benefit eligibility by the number of ADLs with which the insured person requires assistance, typically two or more. If your parent requires assistance with bathing and dressing, in most cases their long-term care insurance benefit eligibility condition has been met. Call (516) 408-0034.

How much does home health aide personal care cost in New York?

Personal care in NYC and Long Island typically starts at approximately $33 per hour with a 4-hour minimum. Overnight starts around $330 per shift. Live-in starts around $429 per day. 24-hour starts around $792 per day. General reference ranges only — not a guarantee. Long-term care insurance may offset costs significantly. Call (516) 408-0034 for exact pricing.

Does Medicare cover home health aide personal care?

Not for non-medical personal care. Medicare covers physician-ordered skilled home health care — nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy — following a qualifying hospitalization. Once skilled services conclude, the ongoing non-medical personal care that keeps an older adult safely at home is funded through private pay or long-term care insurance.

Does long-term care insurance cover home health aide personal care?

In most cases, yes. Most long-term care insurance policies specifically cover non-medical personal care from a Home Health Aide employed by a licensed LHCSA when the insured requires assistance with two or more ADLs. 7 Day Home Care manages benefit verification, claims submission, and ongoing documentation at no charge for all 15 carriers we work with. Call (516) 408-0034 to verify your specific policy.

Does personal care from a licensed LHCSA count toward satisfying a long-term care insurance elimination period?

In most cases, yes. Personal care from a licensed LHCSA counts toward satisfying the elimination period — typically 30, 60, or 90 days — from the first day of service. Starting care at the point of hospital or rehabilitation discharge begins the clock immediately and protects the full benefit period. Call (516) 408-0034 before making assumptions about your timeline.

How quickly can personal care begin?

Personal care typically begins within 24-48 hours. For post-discharge situations, we coordinate with the facility's discharge team to have the HHA confirmed before the client leaves — in many cases meeting the client at the facility on discharge morning. Call (516) 408-0034 for a direct assessment of current availability.

Does 7 Day Home Care coordinate with hospitals and rehab facilities for personal care discharge planning?

Yes. We work with discharge planning teams at hospitals and rehabilitation facilities throughout NYC and Long Island — including North Shore University Hospital, NYU Langone Long Island, NYP Brooklyn Methodist, LIJ Forest Hills, Jamaica Hospital, and Margaret Tietz — to receive discharge notes, conduct the RN home assessment before discharge day, confirm the HHA assignment, and have the caregiver meet the client at the facility on discharge morning.

What is the RN home assessment and why does it matter for personal care?

Every personal care arrangement begins with a Registered Nurse home assessment before care starts — and for post-discharge clients, before discharge day whenever possible. The assessment evaluates the client's specific home: bathroom configuration, tub threshold, staircase height and railing, bedroom-to-bathroom pathway, and the specific post-surgical or neurological movement restrictions from the discharge notes. The HHA's daily care plan is built from the assessment results, not from a generic template. This is the specific step that prevents the first morning home from being a crisis.

Do Home Health Aides speak languages other than English?

Yes. Our HHA team includes speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Haitian Creole, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Tagalog, Arabic, Italian, French, Portuguese, and additional languages. For clients with Alzheimer's or dementia for whom the first language becomes the dominant communication channel as cognitive decline progresses, language-matched HHA assignment is a care priority. Please specify language requirements when you call (516) 408-0034.

What is a licensed LHCSA and why does it matter for personal care?

A Licensed Home Care Services Agency (LHCSA) is licensed by the New York State Department of Health to employ, credential, and RN-supervise Home Health Aides. Most long-term care insurance policies require personal care to be provided by a licensed LHCSA for benefits to apply. A caregiver registry places independent contractors without the employment, insurance, and supervision obligations of a licensed agency. 7 Day Home Care is a licensed LHCSA. Every caregiver is our W-2 employee.

Can personal care be provided in an assisted living facility?

Yes. 7 Day Home Care provides personal care in assisted living facilities, and memory care units throughout NYC and Long Island as a supplement to facility staffing. Learn more: Assisted Living Care Services

What happens if a scheduled Home Health Aide cannot arrive?

7 Day Home Care arranges a qualified replacement. Shifts are not left uncovered. This is a specific operational commitment of being a licensed LHCSA employer rather than a registry, where gaps in coverage fall to the family to resolve.

Personal Care Serving Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County

7 Day Home Care provides personal care throughout the following communities. Select a location for neighborhood-specific care information.

Manhattan Battery Park City · Financial District · Tribeca · Greenwich Village · SoHo · NoHo · Chelsea · Gramercy · Midtown · Hudson Yards · Upper East Side · Lenox Hill · Carnegie Hill · Upper West Side

Brooklyn Prospect Heights · Brooklyn Heights · Park Slope · Carroll Gardens · Cobble Hill · Boerum Hill · DUMBO · Williamsburg · Fort Greene · Vinegar Hill · Gowanus · Red Hook

Queens Jamaica Estates · Flushing · Forest Hills · Fresh Meadows · Bayside · Astoria · Beechhurst · Ditmars Steinway · Kew Gardens · Little Neck · Douglaston · Whitestone · College Point · Long Island City · Belle Harbor · Neponsit · Rockwood Park · Glen Oaks

Nassau County Great Neck · Manhasset · Old Westbury · Garden City · Roslyn · Floral Park · Williston Park · Port Washington · Valley Stream · Woodmere · Baldwin · Oyster Bay · Jericho · Syosset · Plainview · Massapequa

Suffolk County Huntington · Melville

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Licensed. Supervised. Responsive.

7 Day Home Care is a New York State licensed LHCSA (Licensed Home Care Services Agency), licensed by the New York State Department of Health to provide non-medical personal care and home health aide services throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau County, and Suffolk County.

Every Home Health Aide is a NYS Certified Home Health Aide — our W-2 employee, background-checked, insured, and supervised by our Registered Nurse. We do not use registries or referral platforms. We do not staff aides who are not credentialed. All services are non-medical.

Our Home Health Aides speak English, Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, Haitian Creole, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, Tagalog, Arabic, Italian, French, Portuguese, and additional languages.

For emergencies, call 911.

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The Morning That Changes Everything Usually Arrives Without Warning

Most families do not plan for the morning when personal care becomes necessary. It arrives — in a phone call, in a visit, in a discharge planner's Thursday afternoon question — and the window between recognizing the need and having professional care in place is usually shorter than families expect.

The families who navigate it best are the ones who make the call before Saturday. Who find out on Thursday that a policy exists and has been active for twenty-five years and will cover almost everything. Who have the RN assessment done before discharge day so the first morning home is managed rather than survived.

"She showered this morning. The HHA knew exactly what to do — the protocol, the grab bar, the sequence. My mother said it was the first time she had felt safe in the bathroom in years. The John Hancock policy covered almost everything. I wish I had called you before Thursday."

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