Senior care resources from Endurance Home Care
Endurance Home Care's senior care resources are practical guides for families arranging care at home: what care costs, coming home from the hospital, supporting someone with memory changes, companion and live-in care, and aging in place.
Practical guides for families arranging care at home, organized by the question you’re asking.
Published on a monthly cadence since long before this library was rebuilt. Every guide here carries a real named author, not an anonymous byline. Each guide answers a question families ask us and lists its sources in the text, so you can check them.
Start where your question is
Most families don’t arrive with a topic in mind. They arrive with a question: what care will cost, what happens after a hospital stay, what to do when memory changes, how to make the house easier to live in. So the guides are organized that way.
The cost guides are anchored to the Long Term Care Navigator Connecticut figures for 2026 rather than a national average, because Connecticut is not the national average, and they explain what shapes the price of care: the hours, the kind of help, and whether nights are involved. The hospital-to-home guides draw on Endurance Homebound, our plan for the first 72 hours after discharge. If you’d rather start with how we help, see our home care services.
- Paying for home care07What will care cost, and what can help pay for it?
- Hospital to home04She comes home on Friday and the house isn't ready yet.
- Dementia support at home07His memory is changing and the days feel less predictable.
- Aging in place07How do we make the house easier to live in for the years ahead?
- Companion care08She's on her own most of the day and could use the company.
- Live-in and 24-hour care07The nights have become hard for the family to cover.
- Home care or assisted living01Should she move, or could the help come to her?
- Home care or a nursing home01A nursing home has come up and we'd like to understand the choices.
- Home care or hospice01Hospice came up in conversation and we're not sure what it means.
- Home care or a facility01We're weighing staying at home against a move.
- Live-in care or awake 24-hour care01We'd like to know what each kind of 24-hour care includes.
- Dementia decision center01Several decisions are coming at once and we'd like to know where to start.
The number beside each subject is how many guides are filed under it today.
Endurance Home Care helps with daily life at home: company, meals, the house, errands, appointments and, where it's needed, hands-on personal care. For skilled nursing, home health aides or physical therapy in Connecticut, our separate company, Endurance Home Health, can help.
Good places to start
If you’re not sure where to begin, these six of our 54 guides answer the questions families most often bring to us.
How much does 24/7 in home care cost per month
The number families ask for first, and what shapes it.
Read the guideSundowning
Why late afternoon can be harder, and what helps.
Read the guideThe first 72 hours after a hospital discharge
What to have ready for the first few days at home.
Read the guideFall prevention for elderly parents
Practical changes, room by room, that make getting around easier.
Read the guideDoes Medicare pay for home care
What Medicare covers at home, and what it doesn't.
Read the guideHow much does a live-in caregiver cost
How live-in care is priced, and what changes it.
Read the guide
When you’d rather talk it through
Reading helps, and sometimes the quickest way forward is a conversation with someone who arranges care every day. Tell us what’s happening and we’ll help you work out what kind of help fits, and what to do next.
About this library
What senior care resources does Endurance Home Care publish?
Endurance Home Care publishes practical guides for families arranging care at home, on a monthly cadence: what care costs and how families pay for it, coming home from the hospital, supporting someone with memory changes, companion care, live-in and 24-hour care, and making a house easier to live in. Every guide on this site carries a real named author, answers a question families ask us and lists its sources so you can check them.
Who writes Endurance Home Care's senior care guides?
Named members of the Endurance Home Care team. The founders' writing has appeared in the New Haven Register, Home Health Care News, and McKnight's Home Care, and each guide in this library carries a real author name rather than an anonymous byline, with sources stated in the text.
Where do the facts in these guides come from?
Each guide lists its sources, such as the CDC, Medicare.gov, the National Institute on Aging and Connecticut state agencies, so you can check them yourself. Facts about Endurance Home Care, like how care is arranged and where we work, come from our own records. If a guide doesn't answer your question, call our care team and ask.
Let’s talk about the help your family needs
Tell us what’s happening at home. We’ll listen, talk through the options and explain what care would look like. Home care across Connecticut and New Jersey, and companion care in New York, from an agency licensed by the state. The first conversation is free, and nothing starts until you say so.