Home is where life happens. When daily tasks grow harder to manage in Fort Collins, CO, in home care services from Preferred Care at Home help seniors stay comfortable and cared for in their own homes, with dignity and independence intact.
The CDC reports about 1 in 4 older adults fall each year. Medicare does not cover 24-hour home care or custodial personal care, leaving most families responsible for building their own plan. Preferred Care at Home has served Northern Colorado communities for over 15 years, with a team that knows the hospital systems, referral networks, and unique needs of this region.
Every in-home caregiver passes our 7-step screening process and is matched to your loved one by personality and experience. We work closely with families to build personalized care plans that protect quality of life and keep clients in their own homes where they belong.
Returning home from UCHealth or Banner Health with a recovery plan and limited energy is harder than it looks. Our Transition care services help Fort Collins seniors avoid readmission with compassionate support and coordinated follow-up care built into each visit.
Many seniors in Fort Collins go days without meaningful social activities or companionship. Our Companion care provides consistent visits and a helping hand so your loved one stays engaged and connected to the life they’ve built in their own home.
Meal preparation, light housekeeping, grocery shopping, and laundry pile up fast when mobility changes. Our Homemaker care services keep your loved one’s home clean, stocked, and safe so aging in place stays a realistic choice.
Bathing, dressing, grooming, and medication reminders require caregivers who lead with dignity. Our Personal care services in Fort Collins deliver hands-on assistance tailored to your loved one’s unique needs, available a few hours a day or seven days a week with flexible scheduling.
Medical conditions like dementia create daily safety risks that grow harder to manage without consistent support. Our Dementia care services and alzheimer’s care pair your loved one with a highly trained caregiver who understands memory loss and the emotional weight taking care of a parent or spouse places on the whole family.
For many seniors, 24-hour presence in their own home is safer and more affordable than a facility. Our live-in care services match your loved one with a caregiver by personality and provide round-the-clock assistance, seven days a week, with peace for the whole family.
Being home during life’s final chapter brings a comfort no facility can offer. Our End-of-life care services provide compassionate care alongside your hospice team, including respite care for family caregivers who need a break, keeping your loved one’s dignity the top priority.
Step 01
Call or reach out online. We respond quickly and listen to your situation.
Step 02
Share your loved one’s needs. We assess daily tasks, routines, and medical conditions together.
Step 03
We build loved one’s care plan around their unique needs and your family’s schedule.
Step 04
Your caregiver is selected by personality, background, and experience, not just availability.
Step 05
Care starts and you monitor your loved one’s care plan updates through the Transparency Room.
Families across Fort Collins face obstacles that most home care services pages never address directly.
Challenge
What It Looks Like
How We Help
Rising Care Costs
What It Looks Like
Home care services in Fort Collins average approximately $6,101 per month; costs rose 10% in 2024 as demand for in-home caregivers outpaces supply.
How We Help
VA benefits, Medicaid, LTC insurance, and flexible scheduling help match care services to your budget and individual needs.
Challenge
Fall Risk at Home
What It Looks Like
About 1 in 4 older adults fall each year; Fort Collins homes with older layouts and icy entryways add significantly to that risk.
How We Help
Professional caregivers provide mobility assistance, safe transfers, and home safety checks at every visit.
Challenge
Caregiver Continuity
What It Looks Like
Rotating caregivers disrupts the routines that many seniors with dementia care needs depend on daily.
How We Help
Our matching process and backup coverage remain the same, with the same in-home caregiver providing support consistently.
Challenge
Medicare Confusion
What It Looks Like
Many families assume Medicare covers personal care services, but Medicare does not pay for custodial-only home care.
How We Help
We walk families through every payment option, including VA benefits and Colorado Medicaid, with no billing surprises.
Challenge
Missed Tasks and Turnover
What It Looks Like
Families in Northern Colorado communities report rotating caregivers, missed light housekeeping, and billing disputes.
How We Help
Task completion is tracked in real time through the Transparency Room so families see every visit.
Challenge
Winter Isolation
What It Looks Like
Fort Collins’ snow season stretches from October into April; many seniors lose access to transportation and grocery shopping for weeks.
How We Help
Winter care plans include transportation assistance, errand support, and home safety checks built for snow season.
Preferred Care at Home has continued this tradition by only referring the most reliable, compassionate, experienced and affordable caregivers to client’s homes or care facilities.
We Serve:
Northern Colorado has a way of becoming home in the truest sense. The mountains to the west, the open plains stretching east, the tight-knit communities spread across the Front Range from Fort Collins down through Loveland and Windsor. For our ownership team, these communities are not just a service area. They are where we have spent more than 15 years working alongside families, healthcare providers, and long-term care professionals, building relationships that go well beyond a business card.
That depth of experience in the Northern Colorado long-term care and healthcare community shaped everything about how we approach our work with Preferred Care at Home. We have seen what happens when elderly people return home from a hospital without the right support in place. We have sat with families trying to understand their options, often overwhelmed and unsure where to turn. And we have seen the profound difference that the right caregiver, matched carefully and showing up consistently, can make in someone’s daily life.
When the opportunity came to bring Preferred Care at Home’s model to this region, it felt like a natural extension of the work we had already been doing. The company’s values, affordable and compassionate care delivered with dignity, aligned with what we believed families in Fort Collins, Loveland, Windsor, and the surrounding communities deserved. We also wanted to ensure that Spanish-speaking families in our area could access the same quality of care and the same level of personal attention. Every family, regardless of language, deserves to feel heard and understood.
We are humbled to serve our community and their loved ones. We want each elderly individual and every family member to rest assured in our promise to deliver exceptional care with compassion, respect, and to be by your side, every step of the way.
Hear directly from families and caregivers about the impact of compassionate, personalized care.
Fort Collins home care services average approximately $6,101 per month (Genworth 2021) and $23.21 per hour on the marketplace as of May 2024. Costs vary based on hours, care services, and your loved one’s care plan. Paying for home care through VA benefits, Colorado Medicaid, or long-term care insurance can reduce what your family pays out of pocket.
Preferred Care at Home is a leading provider of senior care in Fort Collins with 15+ years of Northern Colorado healthcare experience, a 7-step caregiver screening process, and the Transparency Room for real-time family oversight. Families who want a great company delivering exceptional care should ask about caregiver screening, continuity planning, and how family members monitor daily tasks remotely. Preferred Care at Home matches every client to a caregiver by personality and provides the highest quality oversight through real-time portal access.
Home care covers daily tasks, companionship, and personal care services; home health care covers skilled medical care under a physician plan, often reimbursed by Medicare under specific criteria. Medicare covers intermittent skilled medical care when criteria are met but does not pay for custodial-only in home care services like bathing, dressing, or meal preparation. Most Fort Collins families need a separate private pay, Medicaid, or VA plan for ongoing senior care services.
Post-discharge in home care in Fort Collins, CO can typically begin within 24 to 48 hours of your loved one returning home from UCHealth or Banner Health. Our transition care team works closely with local hospital discharge planners to start providing support as quickly as possible. The sooner your loved one’s care plan is in place, the lower the risk of readmission during the critical first weeks at home.
Ask about caregiver screening steps, background check scope, backup coverage for call-offs, and how the agency tracks task completion and communicates updates to your family member at a distance. Caregiver turnover and missed daily tasks are common complaints in the Northern Colorado market. Preferred Care at Home uses a 7-step screening process and gives families real-time visibility into every visit so you always know care is happening as planned.
Assisted living in Fort Collins averages approximately $4,000 per month versus home care at $6,101 per month, but families needing only a few hours of daily assistance often pay significantly less. The right comparison depends entirely on how many hours your loved one actually needs. In home care services allow families to start small and scale up, preserving independence far longer than a facility placement.
Every caregiver undergoes our comprehensive 7-step screening process, including background checks, reference verification, skills assessments, and personality evaluations. Many hold certifications as CNAs, HHAs, or PCAs. We also provide ongoing training and only refer the most reliable, compassionate, and experienced home caregivers to your home.
The Larimer County Office on Aging serves adults 60 and older, adults with medical conditions and disabilities, and family caregivers with local support programs. Family caregivers providing support to a parent or spouse often need outside help before they reach burnout. The Larimer County Office on Aging is a practical local starting point, and the Weld County Area Agency on Aging serves families in Greeley, Evans, and nearby areas.
Colorado’s Community First Choice (CFC) program, effective July 1, 2025, expands Medicaid coverage for attendant personal care services and in-home support under the state plan. Eligible individuals may receive personal care services and daily living assistance through Medicaid rather than private pay under the CFC program. Preferred Care at Home accepts Medicaid and can help your family determine if this coverage applies to your loved one’s unique care plan.
Ask about caregiver screening steps, backup coverage, how task completion is tracked, and which payment sources are accepted, including VA benefits and Medicaid. The right agency answers these questions clearly without hesitation. Preferred Care at Home accepts VA benefits, Medicaid, long-term care insurance, and private pay, and gives every family direct visibility into their loved one’s care plan updates through the Transparency Room portal.
