Live In Caregiver Requirements: What a Household Provides
A live-in caregiver needs a private room where they can sleep and rest, and meals while they’re living in. We look after the caregiving side, and we’ll go through the practical details with you before care begins.
For live-in care with Endurance Home Care, your household provides a private room where the caregiver can sleep and rest, and meals while they're living in, and we look after the rest, from choosing the caregiver to covering their days off. As a registered agency, Endurance Home Care, Connecticut Homemaker Companion Agency registration HCA.0002450, carries training, matching, and registration on its side.
Your home provides a room and meals. We look after the caregiving.
Most families ask about the house first, and the answer is short: a private room with a bed, somewhere to keep clothes, and meals while the caregiver is living in. The caregiving side is ours: choosing the caregiver, how they were trained, the care plan, cover for days off, keeping you posted, and an agency licensed by the state to do this work. Both are set out before care begins, so everyone knows how the arrangement runs.
If you’re still deciding whether live-in care is right for your family, start with the live-in care guide.
What the household provides
A live-in caregiver lives where they work, so your home becomes their home for the days they’re with you. What they need is simple and practical, and we’ll go through your household’s version with you before anyone moves in.
A private room
A bedroom of their own with a door that closes, a comfortable bed and somewhere to keep their things. This is where they sleep at night and rest on their breaks.
A room of their own is what makes a proper night's rest possible.
Meals
Food is provided by the household while the caregiver is living in. Some families include the caregiver in what's already being cooked. Others keep the kitchen stocked so they can make their own meals.
Tell us about allergies, preferences and any times the family will be away, so it's in the plan from the start.
A little practical setup
Where the laundry is, where supplies are kept, and a comfortable place to sit that isn't your mother's favorite chair. Small things like these make the first week easier for everyone.
Rest and days off, written down
The care plan sets out the caregiver's working hours, breaks and night's sleep, and who covers their days off. A live-in caregiver is in the house overnight but sleeping, so if the nights get busy, we'll talk with you about adding an awake caregiver.
Every household's version is a little different, and the plan changes as needs change.
For the shape of an ordinary day inside that arrangement, read what a live-in caregiver does day to day.
What Endurance takes care of
Caregivers screened and trained
Before they’re hired, our caregivers go through background checks, reference checks and verification of their qualifications. They have an orientation before their first shift and training every month, including sessions on dementia care, and every caregiver works to a care plan that a registered nurse writes with your family. Endurance describes its Care Professional training as extensive, and names the scope: disease states, plus health and wellness education, with a wellness program behind it and customized monthly client assessments once someone is placed.
A caregiver chosen for your family
We choose the caregiver for the person they’ll be helping and introduce them before the first visit. If it isn’t working, we find someone else. One family wrote that the agency “allowed us to interview multiple people.”
Personality matters too
Skill matters, and so does temperament. A daughter whose father wanted no help at all wrote that the caregiver’s “amazing personality won him over.” The match is a large part of what an agency arranges for you, which is worth weighing if you’re comparing hiring privately versus through an agency.
Days off and a backup plan
When the live-in caregiver has days off, a second caregiver covers them. The backup plan is written into the care plan, so your family knows who is coming, and your Care Manager keeps you posted and reviews the plan with you as needs change.
New Jersey: care from a certified home health aide
All home care workers in New Jersey are mandated to be certified home health aides, working to a care plan from a nurse practitioner. A live-in arrangement in New Jersey is staffed on that basis, and the household side of the arrangement, the room and the board, is the same conversation it is anywhere else.
Registration
Connecticut License HCA.0002450, registry verified and active. A registration is a state record that an agency is registered to provide daily-living homemaker and companion services. You’re welcome to ask any agency for its number and look it up.
Agreed before care begins
A registered nurse visits at home and writes the care plan with your family. That’s where the practical side gets settled: which room, how meals will work, the caregiver’s working hours and night’s rest, and who covers their days off.
It’s also the time to tell us what matters to your mother or father: when they like to get up, how they like the house kept, and what they’d rather keep doing for themselves. One family described what they found as “true flexibility around scheduling, unwavering patience, and a warm, empathetic approach.”
When you’re ready to start a live-in arrangement with our team, we’ll begin with a conversation about your home and the help that’s needed.
On paying for live-in care: Endurance is private pay, and families with long-term care insurance can use it, with our help on the policy paperwork. The Medicare home health benefit doesn’t pay for 24 hour a day care at home, or for homemaker services such as shopping and cleaning that are unrelated to a care plan, and Medicare and most health insurance, including Medigap, don’t pay for most long term care. Connecticut’s Home Care Program for Elders lists companion services and homemaker services among the supports it funds. There’s more on how families pay for care.
The details depend on your home, so the easiest way to settle them is to talk them through.
Call our care team at (203) 936-6847, and a person answers it. You can also request a call. Tell us about the house: which room the caregiver would use, any stairs, who else lives there, and what your mother or father is comfortable with. We’ll go through the rest with you.
Live-in care can be companion care or hands-on personal care. We provide personal care in Connecticut and New Jersey. In New York we provide companion care, by the hour, overnight, live-in or around the clock.
Connecticut License HCA.0002450 · New Jersey License HP0435100 · Connecticut DPH License 9915786 (Endurance Home Health).
Questions families ask about living in
What are the live-in caregiver requirements?
The household provides what living in needs: a private room where the caregiver can sleep and rest, meals or the food to make them, and a little practical setup, like knowing where the laundry and supplies are. Endurance Home Care looks after the caregiving side: screening and choosing the caregiver, a care plan written with your family, a second caregiver for days off, and a Care Manager who keeps you posted. We go through the practical details with you before care begins. Endurance Home Care holds Connecticut Homemaker Companion Agency Registration HCA.0002450 and trains its Care Professionals in disease states and health and wellness.
Do live-in caregivers get time off and sleep?
Yes. A live-in caregiver has agreed working hours, breaks during the day and a proper night's sleep, all written into the care plan. A second caregiver covers their days off, and the backup plan is part of the care plan too, so your family knows who is coming. If the nights start getting busy, we'll talk with you about adding an awake caregiver overnight. Endurance families describe 'true flexibility around scheduling' as the working norm.
What training do Endurance live-in caregivers have?
Before they're hired, our caregivers go through background checks, reference checks and verification of their qualifications. They have an orientation before their first shift and training every month, including three-hour sessions on dementia care, and our nurses hold the eight-hour Certified Dementia Educator certification. Every caregiver works to a care plan that a registered nurse writes with your family. Endurance describes extensive Care Professional training that includes disease states and health and wellness education, alongside a wellness program and customized monthly client assessments. The caregiver side of the business has its own door: Employee Services, (203) 309-3169, for care professionals who want to work this way.
Tell us about your home
We’ll talk through the room, the meals and the help that’s needed, and explain how live-in care would work in your house. The first conversation is free, and nothing starts until you say so.