Personal care at home, given with dignity and patience

Name: Endurance Home Care, Short Hills
Address: 788 Morris Turnpike, Suite 201, Short Hills, NJ, 07078, US
Telephone: (973) 315-5323

Hands-on care · hourly, live-in or 24/7

When a shower or getting dressed has started to feel like a struggle, a little help can make the whole day easier. Our caregivers help with bathing, dressing and getting around, at your parent’s own pace and with their privacy respected. Tell us what the mornings are like, and we’ll talk it through.

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Endurance Home Care provides personal care at home in Connecticut and New Jersey: respectful, unhurried help with bathing, dressing, grooming, the bathroom and moving around safely, from caregivers who pass background checks, reference checks and verification of their qualifications and certifications.

What personal care for seniors covers

Personal care is help with the everyday things that have become harder: a shower, getting dressed, the bathroom, getting up from a chair. Families often call when getting ready in the morning has started taking most of the morning, or when a shower keeps getting put off because no one is there to help. The caregiver helps with what’s needed and leaves the rest to your parent. Personal care also includes everything in companion care, so the same caregiver can make lunch, run errands and keep your parent company.

Bathing
A shower or bath at the pace your parent sets. The caregiver helps with the parts that have become hard, like stepping in and out, and leaves the rest to them.
Dressing
Your parent chooses what to wear. The caregiver helps with the buttons, zippers and socks that have become fiddly.
Grooming
Hair, shaving, teeth and nails, done the way your parent has always liked them.
Help in the bathroom
Quiet, matter-of-fact help, given with privacy and without rushing.
Getting around
A steady hand getting up, sitting down and moving from room to room, including the trip to the bathroom at night.

Personal care is one part of what we do. You can see the rest under all home care services.

It starts with a conversation at home

Before care begins, a registered nurse visits at home. It’s a relaxed conversation about how the days go: which parts of the morning your parent still wants to do on their own, which parts have become hard, how the bathroom is set up, what the stairs are like. The nurse writes the care plan with your family, and the caregiver follows it. The plan is revisited through a customized monthly assessment, with updates to schedule and preferences, because the version of the morning that worked in March is rarely the version that works in July.

Nurse visit
A registered nurse meets your family at home and talks through daily routines, getting around and preferences.
The care plan
The routine becomes a written plan: what help is given, in what order, and what your parent prefers to do themselves.
Meeting the caregiver
We choose a screened caregiver for your parent and the plan, and introduce them before the first visit.
First visit, then monthly
Care begins, your Care Manager keeps you posted, and the plan is revisited every month as needs change.

Endurance is private pay. If a long-term care policy is in the picture, bring it to that first conversation. We read it with you, say directly what it looks like it will and won’t cover, and help with the policy paperwork: long term care insurance help.

Help with a shower or getting dressed should feel respectful, unhurried and private.

The caregivers who help

Every caregiver passes background checks, reference checks and verification of their qualifications and certifications before we hire them, then completes orientation before the first shift and keeps training every month. We choose the caregiver with your parent in mind, and if the match isn’t right, we’ll find someone else.

Above that sits the part families notice later: we coordinate around the medical providers already involved, so the appointment, the pharmacy and the household schedule stop being three separate problems held together by one exhausted adult child.

Screening3 checksBackground, references and certification verification

Care planNurse-writtenA registered nurse writes it with your family

Plan reviewMonthlyAssessment updated for schedule and preferences

Personal care, companion care, or homemaking

The difference is the kind of help. Most households use more than one, on a single schedule, so the question is usually where to start. 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.

How personal care, companion care, and homemaking differ
Service	Kind of help	What it covers	Often a good start when
Personal careyou’re here	Hands-on help	Bathing, dressing, grooming, help in the bathroom, getting around	Getting washed and dressed has become hard to manage alone
Companion care	Company and everyday help	Company, meals, errands, rides, reminders	The days feel long or lonely, or the routine needs a hand
Homemaking	Help around the house	Laundry, light housekeeping, meal preparation	The house has become a lot to keep up with

If what a parent needs is company and errands without hands on care, start there. It can still be live-in or around the clock. If the house is the bigger worry, start with housekeeping and meal help. When memory is what changed, the same help is part of personal care within dementia support.

Tell us when you’d like help to begin, and we’ll explain the next steps. We arrange personal care from our offices in Stamford and Short Hills.

Connecticut License HCA.0002450 · New Jersey License HP0435100 · Connecticut DPH License 9915786 (Endurance Home Health). Not sure we come to your town? Call (203) 936-6847.

Questions families ask

What are personal care services?

Personal care is hands-on help with the everyday things that have become harder: bathing, getting dressed, grooming, help in the bathroom and getting around the house safely. At Endurance, a registered nurse plans it with the family at home, and screened, trained caregivers provide it at the person's own pace.

Who decides what personal care my parent needs?

Your parent and your family do, with a registered nurse. The nurse visits at home to talk through daily routines, getting around and what matters most, then writes the care plan with you. The caregiver follows that plan, and it's revisited through a customized monthly assessment as needs change.

Is personal care different from home health care?

Yes. Home health care is medical care ordered by a doctor, from nurses, aides and therapists. Personal care is help with everyday things like bathing and dressing. In Connecticut, our separate company, Endurance Home Health, provides skilled nursing, home health aides and physical therapy, so a family can have both. Endurance Home Care coordinates around the medical providers already involved in a client's care.

Do we come to you?

We work across Connecticut, New Jersey and New York, by the hour, overnight, live-in or around the clock. In Connecticut, hourly, overnight and 24-hour care are available in Fairfield and New Haven counties, and live-in care is available in every county. In New York, companion care by the hour, overnight or around the clock is available in Westchester County and Manhattan, and live-in companion care is available in every county. Find your county on the map, or just call and ask about your town.

Companion and personal care
Companion care, any schedule
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Companion and personal care

In Connecticut, hourly, overnight and 24-hour care are available in Fairfield and New Haven counties, and live-in care is available in every county.

Companion care, any schedule

In New York we provide companion care only: company, meals, errands, appointments and someone watching out for your parent. In New York, companion care by the hour, overnight or around the clock is available in Westchester County and Manhattan, and live-in companion care is available in every county.

We serve every town in every county shown. Find your town or tell us the address when you call.

Talk with our care team

Tell us what the mornings are like

Share where care is needed and which parts of the day have become hard, and we'll call to talk it through. The first conversation is free, and nothing starts until you say so.

In New Jersey, call (973) 315-5323.

Rather talk it through now?

Call our care team. We’ll ask about the parts of the day that have become hard and explain how personal care could help.

Call our care team (203) 936-6847

Personal care at home, given with dignity and patience

What personal care for seniors covers

Bathing

Dressing

Grooming

Help in the bathroom

Getting around