Your parent deserves more than surviving alone at home. They deserve to enjoy life with dignity and independence. When daily chores become overwhelming and social isolation creeps in, Preferred Care at Home of Miami Beach delivers compassionate care that changes everything. Our carefully screened caregivers provide personal care, meal preparation, and genuine companionship so families across Miami-Dade and Broward counties can finally have peace of mind.
Since 1984, Preferred Care at Home has helped elderly parents remain independent in their own homes across South Florida. Our Miami Beach team, led by owner David Peterson, specializes in matching compassionate caregivers with seniors based on personality and specific needs, not just availability. We serve families throughout Miami Beach, North Miami Beach, and surrounding Miami-Dade communities with home care services designed around what matters most: quality of life.
What sets our home care agency apart? We work closely with families to create personalized care plans that adapt as needs change. Every member of our team passes comprehensive background checks and receives ongoing training to maintain the highest standards. You will not experience a revolving door of strangers. Our commitment is consistency, reliability, and caregivers who become trusted companions. That is how we deliver quality care that feels like family.
Step 01
Free phone consultation to understand your home care needs and answer all your questions.
Step 02
We meet you at home to discuss daily routines, health concerns, and care preferences.
Step 03
Customized plan addressing personal care, safety, social interaction, and household support.
Step 04
Selecting experienced caregivers whose personality and skills align with your loved one.
Step 05
Regular check-ins, family communication, and access to our online Transparency Room portal.
Every family faces different challenges. Our home care services provide solutions tailored to your situation.
What You’re Experiencing
How We Help
Elderly Parent Living Alone
What You’re Experiencing
Your loved one struggles with light housekeeping, forgets meals, or spends days without social interaction. The is
How We Help
Our Companion and Homemaker Care delivers daily visits that bring conversation, meal preparation, and meaningful connection while helping seniors remain independent at home.
Post-Surgery Recovery
What You’re Experiencing
A family member needs rehabilitation services and assistance following a hospital stay. Managing medications, doctor appointments, and physical therapy feels overwhelming.
How We Help
Our recovery care includes a trained caregiver who coordinates appointments, provides medication reminders, and assists with daily activities during the healing process.
Memory Loss Challenges
What You’re Experiencing
Your parent shows confusion, repeats questions, or wanders at night. You need professional dementia support but want them to stay home.
How We Help
Our Alzheimer’s care team receives specialized training in memory support, safety monitoring, and engagement activities that provide dignity and comfort.
Family Caregiver Exhaustion
What You’re Experiencing
You have been providing care alone and feel burned out. You need respite but worry about trusting someone new with your parent.
How We Help
Our respite care gives you essential breaks while experienced caregivers provide the same compassionate care. Personality matching ensures comfort and trust.
Around-the-Clock Supervision
What You’re Experiencing
Health conditions require continuous monitoring but nursing facilities feel wrong. Your loved one needs 24-hour support in their own home.
How We Help
ive-in care provides affordable peace of mind with consistent caregivers present day and night, offering personal care and emergency response.
Our team lives and works in the South Florida communities we serve. When you contact us, you reach neighbors who understand Miami Beach.
We Serve:
Miami Beach
North Miami Beach
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David’s dedication to senior care comes from witnessing families struggle to find reliable, communicative home care providers in South Florida. After years in business, he recognized that elderly parents and their families desperately needed a care agency that answered phone calls, provided immediate access to ownership, and delivered consistent quality. When he discovered Preferred Care at Home, everything aligned: a proven company with 40 years of experience, a commitment to affordability, and values centered on dignity and independence.
Celebrating life, dignity, and independence.
We understand how difficult it can be to ask for help. Trusting someone with your parents’ care, inviting them into the home where memories live, requires more than a simple business transaction. It requires genuine commitment.
Our promise is straightforward: we refer only caregivers we would trust with our own elderly parents. Every professional passes rigorous screening because quality care is not negotiable. Your loved one deserves compassionate caregivers who show up reliably, who treat them with respect, and who understand that home is more than a place. It is where life happens.
Hear directly from families and caregivers about the impact of compassionate, personalized care.
Home care costs in Miami Beach vary based on the services provided and hours needed. Companion and Homemaker Care for a few hours weekly costs less than 24-hour live-in care. We offer flexible scheduling from one hour to around-the-clock support, so you can build a plan that fits your budget. Contact us for a personalized quote. We will discuss payment options, including private insurance, veterans’ benefits, and Medicare coverage for skilled nursing services.
Three factors set us apart: our 7-step caregiver screening, personality-based matching, and direct owner involvement. We conduct thorough background checks and verify every caregiver’s qualifications before they meet clients. Then we match caregivers to families based on personality, life experience, and care needs, not just availability. Plus, David Peterson is personally invested in every family we serve. This is not a distant corporate franchise. It is neighbors caring for neighbors.
We provide both non-medical home care and skilled nursing care. Our companion and personal care services include assistance with daily activities, meal preparation, light housekeeping, and social interaction. For medical needs, we connect families with registered nurses and home health aides who deliver wound care, medication management, physical therapy support, and coordination with health care providers. We work closely with your existing medical team to ensure comprehensive care.
We can often start services within 24 to 48 hours of your initial consultation, depending on caregiver availability and complexity of care needs. The process begins with a free phone call where we discuss your situation. Next, we schedule an in-home assessment to meet your loved one and understand their routines. Then we match the right caregiver and coordinate a start date. We will not rush the matching process because finding the right fit matters more than speed.
Look for signs like missed medications, weight loss from skipped meals, a cluttered or dirty home, withdrawal from social activities, or difficulty bathing and dressing. If you are calling multiple times daily to check in, rearranging your work schedule for doctor appointments, or lying awake worrying about falls, those are signals that support would help. Our free consultation can help you evaluate whether it is time for professional assistance.
Absolutely. Our dementia caregivers receive specialized training in memory support techniques, safety protocols, and meaningful engagement activities. They understand how to redirect confusion, maintain consistent routines that reduce anxiety, and provide dignity throughout the progression of illness. Preferred Care at Home has supported hundreds of families navigating Alzheimer’s across South Florida, and we bring that expertise to every Miami Beach family.
Hospital-to-home transitions are challenging. Patients leave with confusing medication lists, follow-up appointments to schedule, and rehabilitation exercises to remember. Our transition care program addresses exactly this situation. A specially trained caregiver meets with you to review discharge instructions, helps manage medications, schedules doctor appointments, and monitors recovery progress. This support helps prevent hospital readmissions, which affect one in five Medicare patients.
Compatibility matters deeply, which is why we invest in personality matching from the beginning. However, if the relationship is not working, please let us know immediately. We will find a different caregiver who is a better fit, no questions asked. Your loved one’s comfort and happiness come first. Our commitment is to make adjustments quickly and without guilt when relationships need to change.
Medicare covers skilled home health care, including nursing services, physical therapy, and occupational therapy under specific conditions, but typically does not cover non-medical companion or personal care. However, other options exist. Veterans may qualify for Aid and Attendance benefits. Some private insurance plans include coverage for home care services. Long-term care insurance often applies. We will help you understand your options and explore resources to make quality care accessible.
Every caregiver passes our comprehensive 7-step screening proces,s including criminal background checks, reference verification, skills assessment, and personality evaluation. But screening is just the foundation. We provide ongoing training, conduct regular quality check-ins, and give families access to our Transparency Room portal, where they can monitor care in real time. If a caregiver fails to meet our standards, we address it immediately. Your safety and satisfaction are non-negotiable.
