Services
Home care services in Wilson and eastern North Carolina
You do not have to work out which one you need before you call. Nine services, from a few hours of company to around the clock support, all of them at home, all of them starting with a free assessment before you decide anything.
What we do
Grouped the way families actually use them
Most households start with one of these and add more as things change. Tell us what the days look like and we will tell you honestly what would help, including when the honest answer is not much yet.
Everyday support at home
Help with the ordinary things that got hard
Personal Care
Hands-on help with bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, mobility and transfers. This is where most families start, usually after a fall or after bathing stopped being safe alone.
See what personal care covers
Companion Care
Conversation, company, a hand with errands and the shopping, and someone in the house on the days that get long and quiet. Often the first service a family asks for when nothing is wrong yet.
See what companion care covers
Let’s Get Social Care
Staying in touch with the people who live far away. Video calls with the grandchildren, help with messages and photographs, and a hand with the technology that keeps changing.
See how this worksMemory and long-term conditions
Calm, familiar routines that hold as memory changes
Dementia Care
Unhurried support through early, mid and late-stage dementia, including vascular, Lewy body and Huntington’s. Caregivers who redirect rather than correct, and who know that the afternoon is often the hard part.
See what dementia care covers
Alzheimer’s Care
The same routine, the same order, the same faces, held steady through each stage. Structure is the point: a morning that runs the way it ran yesterday is worth more than anything new we could introduce.
See what Alzheimer’s care covers
Palliative Comfort Support
Non-medical comfort and company for someone living with a long-term condition. We work alongside whatever health care team is already involved, and we take on the parts of the day they do not cover.
See how this worksRelief, transitions and the last season
The stretches where a family cannot do it alone
Respite Care
Cover for the family caregiver, from a few hours on a Saturday to a stretch of days while you travel. It is how people keep doing this for years instead of months.
See how respite works
Let’s Go Home Care
Extra hands for the first days back from the hospital, when the house is suddenly harder than it was and the discharge paperwork assumes somebody is there. Often short-term, and built for the stretch when the house is hardest.
See how this works
Peaceful Transitions Care
Care at home for the weeks when someone is dying, and for the family living in the house through it. A caregiver takes the nights, the meals and the visitors, alongside a hospice team.
See how this worksBeing straight with you
What we do, and what we do not do
Praise Homecare is a non-medical home care agency. Knowing the line before you call saves everybody a wasted conversation, so here it is plainly.
What a caregiver does
- Bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting and continence care
- Walking, transfers and getting safely in and out of a chair or bed
- Meals, light housekeeping, laundry, errands and the grocery run
- Medication reminders only, not administration
- Company, conversation, activities and getting out of the house
- Telling you when something has changed, before it becomes a crisis
What we refer out
- Wound care, injections, catheters and anything a licensed health professional has to perform
- Physical, occupational and speech therapy
- Giving or adjusting medication, including dosing decisions
- Diagnosis, and anything that belongs to a doctor
If what you need sits on the other side of that line, say so on the call and we will point you at who does it. We would rather send you to the right place than take an hour you did not need.
How much of the week
As little as one morning, or as much as around the clock
Care is built around the hours that are actually hard, and it moves as things change. Most families start smaller than they expect to.
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A few hoursThe hard part of the day
Mornings, bath days, evenings, or the afternoon stretch when somebody with dementia gets restless. Enough to take the sharpest hours off the family.
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Full daysWhile the family works
Cover through the working day, or across a weekend, so nobody is calling in sick to cover a shift again.
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Around the clockIncluding overnight
Overnight and around the clock support for people who cannot safely be alone, or for the stretch right after a hospital stay.
Where we go
All nine services, in all ten counties
Wilson County is home and where the office is. Every service on this page also runs in Nash, Halifax, Pitt, Greene, Wayne, Johnston, Wake, Franklin and Durham.
When you are ready
Still not sure which one you need?
That is the normal place to start. Tell us what the week looks like and we will say what would help, in plain language. Or call (877) 652-2907 and describe the week out loud instead.
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.
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