An older woman and her caregiver sitting together on her front porch on a late afternoon in eastern North Carolina

Brightening your day in the heart of your home

Compassionate home care in Wilson and eastern North Carolina

Praise Homecare Inc helps seniors and adults with disabilities stay in the homes they love, with caregivers who show up on time, know them by name, and treat them like family.

24/7A real person answers the phone
10 countiesWilson, Nash, Pitt, Wake and six more
6+ yearsOwned and run by Dedra Dickens
Free assessmentIn your home, before you decide anything

Our services

Nine ways we step into a family’s week

Families usually start with one service and add more as things change. Every plan begins with a free assessment.

How we work

The part you cannot see from the driveway

Anyone can promise good care. These are the four checks that make it true on a Tuesday in February.

  • Before anyone is placed

    A full background check, and a registered nurse signing off their core skills before the first shift.

  • On every single visit You can check this

    Electronic visit verification clocks each caregiver in and out, so you know care happened when it was supposed to.

  • Once care is under way

    Ongoing supervision, care plan reviews as needs change, and family check-ins where we ask you straight out how it is going.

  • When a shift cannot be covered

    We send a backup caregiver. Your mother is not sitting in a chair at 7am wondering whether anybody is coming.

A caregiver writing on a clipboard at the kitchen table while an older woman talks with her hands

Locally owned

Owned in Wilson. Answered in Wilson.

Dedra Dickens has been doing this for over six years, and Praise Homecare is licensed by the state of North Carolina as a home care agency. When you call, you reach the company itself, at any hour, and you keep reaching the same people as the weeks go on.

An older woman with a rolling walker and her caregiver on the sidewalk of a street of brick ranch houses and pines in eastern North Carolina

Service areas

Ten counties across eastern and central North Carolina

We serve what we can reach well. If your county is on this list, we can be at the door.

Durham CountyFranklin CountyGreene CountyHalifax CountyJohnston CountyNash CountyPitt CountyWake CountyWayne CountyWilson County

Counties we serveWilson, where the office is

Wilson County is home. The other nine sit around it, north to Halifax and west to Durham.

Getting started

Four steps, and the first one is a phone call

Nothing is decided until you have the hours, the tasks and the cost in writing.

A woman at her kitchen table late at night, on the phone, as somebody answers
The first call is the hard one. It is also the shortest.

You call

Any hour, day or night. A real person picks up and starts getting the details down.

We sit down together

A free assessment in the home, with you and your loved one, to see what the days really look like.

You get a written plan

The hours, the tasks and the cost, written down before you decide anything.

We match a caregiver

Usually within 24 to 72 hours, and we introduce them before the first shift.

When you are ready

Ask us to call you back, at any hour

Tell us a little and we will call. Or skip the form and call (877) 652-2907 right now, because somebody is awake.

The Praise Homecare family care guide lying on a wooden table beside reading glasses

The Family Care Guide

Free, plain English, no jargon. What to ask, what care costs in North Carolina, and how to know when it is time.

Read the guide

Request your free assessment

A name, a number, and when it suits you to talk.

(877) 652-2907 Free assessment