When a loved one faces a terminal illness, the choice to remain at home during their final stages brings profound meaning to families throughout Newark. Preferred Care at Home understands that this deeply personal journey requires compassionate care that honors dignity, provides emotional well-being, and offers invaluable support to both patients and family members during life’s most sacred moments.
Preferred Care at Home has served families throughout the Newark area and across New Jersey since 1984, bringing over 40 years of experience in providing dignified end-of-life care. Our caregivers undergo a rigorous 7-step screening process to ensure they possess the compassion, training, and sensitivity required for this sacred work.
What sets us apart is our commitment to matching caregivers by personality and experience, not just availability. During the final stages of life, consistency and genuine connection matter deeply. Our family-operated approach ensures personalized attention, while our Transparency Room technology gives family members real-time updates and peace of mind, even when they can’t be physically present.
Our comfort care services focus on maintaining physical and emotional well-being during terminal illness. For Newark families facing end-of-life decisions, we provide the compassionate support needed to ensure your loved one experiences dignity, reduced pain, and genuine comfort in their own home.
We work closely with hospice services, physicians, and registered nurses to coordinate comprehensive care that addresses physical symptoms while honoring spiritual and emotional needs. Our trained caregivers assist with bathing, medications, positioning, and daily activities while offering the tender presence that brings peace during difficult moments.
Family caregivers often carry an immense emotional and physical burden when caring for a loved one with terminal illness. Our respite care services provide families in the Newark area with essential breaks, allowing you to rest, attend to other responsibilities, or simply recharge while knowing your mother, father, or spouse receives excellent care.
We offer flexible scheduling from a few hours to overnight stays, ensuring family members can maintain their own well-being without compromising the quality of care their loved one receives. This invaluable support helps prevent caregiver burnout while strengthening your ability to be fully present during precious remaining time together.
As illness progresses, assistance with daily living becomes increasingly important for maintaining dignity and comfort. Our caregivers provide gentle, respectful help with bathing, grooming, dressing, and toileting, treating each client with the reverence they deserve during this sacred time.
We coordinate seamlessly with hospice providers and medical teams throughout Newark, ensuring continuity of care while addressing the personal needs that hospice services may not fully cover. Our focus remains on preserving independence where possible while offering compassionate assistance that honors your loved one’s preferences and maintains their sense of self.
The emotional journey through terminal illness affects everyone involved. Our caregivers receive specialized training in providing compassionate presence, active listening, and gentle encouragement that acknowledges the profound challenges families face during end-of-life care.
While we offer clinical assistance, we also provide a caring presence during lonely hours, meaningful conversation, and a safe space for both tears and laughter. For family members struggling with anticipatory grief, our team offers understanding support while helping maintain open communication and cherished moments together.
Navigating the enrollment process and ongoing relationship with hospice services can feel overwhelming during an already difficult time. We work closely with hospice teams, social workers, physicians, and registered nurses throughout Newark to ensure seamless care coordination and comprehensive support.
Our caregivers communicate regularly with your medical team, assist with implementing the care plan, and help families understand what to expect. This collaborative approach ensures nothing falls through the cracks while providing the diverse array of services your loved one needs during their final stages.
Terminal illness doesn’t follow a schedule, and neither does our commitment to your family. We provide around-the-clock availability throughout the Newark area, ensuring someone compassionate and trained is always there when needs arise, day or night, weekdays or weekends.
Our live-in care option offers continuous presence and peace of mind, with caregivers who remain alert to changing needs while providing gentle companionship during difficult hours. Families can rest knowing their loved one never faces the night alone and that assistance is immediately available whenever required.
We take a thoughtful, personalized approach to ensure your loved one receives the care they deserve.
Step 01
Free phone consultation to answer your questions with no obligation.
Step 02
We meet in your home to understand unique needs and routines.
Step 03
Creating a personalized plan addressing specific dementia needs.
Step 04
Selecting caregivers whose personality aligns with your loved one.
Step 05
Regular check-ins and access to our Transparency Room portal.
Families throughout Newark face unique challenges when seeking quality end-of-life in-home care. Understanding these obstacles helps us provide better solutions for those navigating terminal illness with loved ones.
Challenge
What It Looks Like
How We Help
Difficulty coordinating between multiple providers
What It Looks Like
Hospital discharge, hospice services, home care, and physicians often operate independently, leaving families confused about who handles what and when.
How We Help
We serve as the central coordination point, communicating with your entire medical team while ensuring seamless care delivery and reducing family stress.
Challenge
Caregiver burnout among family members
What It Looks Like
The physical and emotional demands of providing 24-hour care lead to exhaustion, health problems, and guilt when family caregivers reach their limits.
How We Help
Our respite services provide trained relief so family members can rest, work, and maintain their own well-being without compromising their loved one’s comfort.
Challenge
Limited access to trained end-of-life caregivers
What It Looks Like
Many home care providers lack staff trained explicitly in terminal illness, leaving families with generic assistance that doesn’t address unique hospice care needs.
How We Help
Every caregiver undergoes specialized training in end-of-life support, pain management assistance, and the compassionate presence required during life’s final stages.
Challenge
Concerns about maintaining dignity and comfort
What It Looks Like
Older adults fear losing independence and dignity as illness progresses, while families worry about providing adequate comfort and emotional support at home.
How We Help
We focus on preserving dignity through respectful personal care, honoring your loved one’s preferences, and creating an environment where your loved one feels safe, comfortable, and valued.
Challenge
Isolation and loneliness during final days
What It Looks Like
Terminal illness often brings social isolation as friends withdraw and family members struggle to balance caregiving with other responsibilities, leaving patients feeling alone.
How We Help
Our Companion and Homemaker Care services provide meaningful presence, conversation, and emotional support that combat loneliness while offering genuine connection during sacred moments.
Challenge
Uncertainty about hospice enrollment and benefits
What It Looks Like
Families delay enrolling in hospice services due to confusion about eligibility, medicare coverage, or fear that choosing hospice means giving up on their loved one.
How We Help
We help navigate the enrollment process, explain benefits clearly, and coordinate with hospice providers to ensure your family receives the comprehensive resources and support available.
Our office serves families throughout Northwest New Jersey. When you contact us, you reach neighbors who understand life in Newark and surrounding communities.
We Serve:
Including Newark and surrounding areas throughout Northwest New Jersey.
We’ve served families since 1984 with a family-operated approach that brings genuine compassion, not corporate indifference. Our rigorous 7-step screening process ensures every caregiver possesses the sensitivity required for end-of-life care, while our personality-matching system creates meaningful connections between caregivers and clients. Plus, our Transparency Room technology gives family members real-time updates and peace of mind, setting us apart from providers who offer minimal communication during this critical journey.
Hospice services and home care serve complementary roles during terminal illness. Hospice provides medical oversight, pain management, and spiritual care, typically visiting a few times weekly. Our home care services fill the gaps with daily assistance, 24-hour presence, personal care help, and companionship that hospice alone doesn’t provide. Most Newark families benefit from working together. We coordinate seamlessly with your hospice team to ensure comprehensive support that addresses all aspects of comfort and dignity.
We typically begin care within 24-48 hours of your initial contact, understanding that time is precious during terminal illness. The timeline includes a home consultation (usually scheduled within hours), care plan development (same day when urgent), caregiver matching (within 24 hours), and service start (when you’re ready). For urgent situations in the Newark area, we prioritize immediate placement and can often arrange care to begin the same day you reach out.
If your family member has received a terminal diagnosis, struggles with daily activities, requires frequent assistance that exhausts family caregivers, or expresses a desire to remain home during their final time, end-of-life care provides invaluable support. You might notice increased pain, difficulty managing medications, social isolation, or challenges coordinating between hospital visits and hospice services. Trust your instincts. When you feel overwhelmed or sense that your loved one needs more comprehensive support than family alone can provide, it’s time to explore professional care options.
While our direct caregiving services conclude when your loved one passes, we remain available to answer questions about final arrangements, provide referrals to grief counseling resources throughout Newark, and offer compassionate support during the immediate aftermath. Many families find comfort in continuing relationships with caregivers who became part of their journey. We’re committed to treating your entire family with dignity and respect, both during end-of-life care and in the difficult days that follow.
We prioritize caregiver consistency because relationships matter deeply during terminal illness. Your matched caregiver remains your primary support, though we maintain backup professionals for days off or emergencies. This consistency allows genuine bonds to form, helps caregivers recognize subtle changes in condition, and provides the familiar presence that brings comfort when everything else feels uncertain. Family members appreciate not having to repeatedly explain preferences or rebuild trust with constantly changing faces.
Yes, our caregivers can provide transportation to doctor visits, hospital appointments, or treatments throughout the Newark area when your loved one is still mobile enough to travel. We coordinate schedules with your medical team, assist with wheelchair transfers when needed, stay present during appointments to help communicate concerns, and ensure safe transport home. This service is especially valuable for family members who work during appointment times or who need physical assistance getting in and out of vehicles.
We adjust care plans immediately when conditions change, whether that means increasing hours, adding specialized support, or coordinating with hospice for symptom management. Our 24-hour availability means you can reach us anytime, day or night, to discuss evolving needs. The Transparency Room portal allows real-time communication about concerns, and our experienced team recognizes the signs that indicate more intensive support is required during the final stages of terminal illness.
We establish communication with your hospice team immediately upon starting care, sharing contact information, discussing the care plan, and clarifying each team’s responsibilities. Our caregivers document changes in condition, medication administration, and comfort levels, sharing this information with hospice nurses during their visits. We participate in care conferences when invited, contact hospice promptly about concerning symptoms, and ensure families never feel caught between two separate care systems. This collaborative approach creates seamless, comprehensive support focused entirely on your loved one’s comfort and dignity.
