Our senior advisory team has over 92 years of collective experience.
Providing Home Care in San Diego County since 2014.
A Caring Touch Home Care provides non-medical 24-hour home care in La Jolla, with caregivers there for your loved one day and night, seven days a week, holidays included. We're a locally owned, independent agency, and we've been caring for families across San Diego County since 2014. Our free in-home consultation is an easy first step for families who feel a mom, dad or spouse now needs someone close by at all hours, and it's where we get to know you.
Around-the-clock care is for the times when a few hours a day are no longer enough. Families usually come to us when a loved one is living with advanced dementia, is recovering from a stroke or another debilitating condition, or simply needs help getting through the night safely.
That's a familiar situation in a lot of La Jolla homes. About one in four people in the 92037 ZIP code is 65 or older, and 2,095 older residents here live on their own. Among neighbors 75 and up, about a third live with a disability, the kind that makes the stairs, a shower or a trip to the bathroom at night harder than it used to be.
We provide around the clock care in La Jolla homes all over town, from the Village and Bird Rock to La Jolla Shores, Muirlands and the streets in between. You can read about everything we offer for home care in La Jolla, or see how our 24-hour care works throughout San Diego.
A 24/7 caregiver in La Jolla helps with the same everyday things your loved one has always done, just with a steady hand nearby. This is the help that comes with our 24-hour care:
Caregivers also give medication reminders through the day, so pills are taken on the schedule your loved one's doctor already set.
The overnight hours are often where 24-hour care matters most. That's when a trip to the bathroom, a stiff knee getting out of bed or a moment of confusion in the dark can turn into a fall. Your loved one's caregiver is right there to help with toileting and to steady them as they move, whatever the hour, and to keep watch so the rest of the family can get some real sleep.
For a loved one who spends most of the day in bed, our bedside care adds help with repositioning and changing briefs, right in the comfort of their own room.
We offer two ways to cover all 24 hours, and the right one depends on your loved one.
Shift care uses a team of five or six caregivers, each working an eight-hour shift. Fresh caregivers rotate in through the day and night, which suits families who need intensive caregiving. It does mean your loved one gets used to several different faces over the week, and some people find that harder than others.
Around-the-clock care uses three caregivers, each working a full 24-hour shift. Your loved one sees fewer faces and gets to know each one well. Families often choose it for a parent with advanced dementia or someone recovering from a debilitating condition, when a familiar person makes the day calmer.
You may hear this choice called live-in versus shift home care. With us, around-the-clock care is the option with fewer, more familiar faces, and we'll weigh your loved one's needs and your budget with you, side by side.
The home plays a part too. Close to half of the homes in 92037 are detached single-family houses, and almost four in ten are in buildings with two or more units, so plenty of families here are planning care in a condo or apartment. In a building with a shared lobby or elevator, fewer comings and goings can make the day quieter for your loved one. In a house, we plan around the stairs, the rooms and the routines your loved one already knows.
Two acute care hospitals sit right here in the 92037 ZIP code: Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla on Genesee Avenue, with 577 licensed beds, and UC San Diego Health's Jacobs Medical Center on Campus Point Drive, with 418. The first nights back home after a stay at either one can feel uncertain for the whole family.
Our post-hospital care helps your loved one settle back in safely. A caregiver helps with getting around the house, personal care, medication reminders and meals, plus the everyday tasks that support recovery, like laundry, groceries and rides to follow-up appointments.
Someone is there through the night as well, and that's what 24-hour care after a hospital discharge in La Jolla really adds. It means a steady arm for the 2 a.m. trip to the bathroom, and a calm voice when your loved one wakes up in the dark and isn't quite sure where they are yet.
A Caring Touch Home Care is locally owned and operated, and we're an independent agency. Our owners are involved in the day-to-day work, and our senior advisory team brings over 92 years of collective experience. We've been serving San Diego County since 2014.
We're licensed, bonded and insured, and our California Home Care Organization number is 374700013. California has required home care organizations to be licensed since January 2016, and the state keeps a public registry of background-checked home care aides. Before a home care aide can be registered, they complete a fingerprint-based background check through the California Department of Justice. Our caregivers go through background checks and training before they ever come to your door.
The right fit builds trust, so we match caregivers by care needs, personality, preferences and schedule whenever we can. Our staff and care managers are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and that includes the middle of the night.
One family, writing after our caregivers helped during her husband's illness, put it simply: "It was very comforting to have support, especially at night." That note came from Joan R.
Good care also means getting out of the house. Our caregivers offer companionship and transportation, so your loved one can still enjoy a slow walk by La Jolla Cove, an afternoon at Birch Aquarium, the easy paths at Scripps Coastal Reserve or a visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art.
For help beyond home care, the County of San Diego's Aging & Independence Services offers care coordination, In-Home Supportive Services, meals and Adult Protective Services for older adults and the people caring for them. Its call center is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
We also offer Alzheimer's and dementia care at home, home care for veterans and their families, respite care that gives family caregivers a break, and free senior placement services for families weighing assisted living or another senior living option.
Everything starts with a free in-home consultation. We come to your loved one's home and take our time getting to know them: their needs, their routines and what a good day looks like for them. From there, we build a personalized care plan, decide between shift care and around-the-clock care with you, and match the caregiver we think will fit best. Care begins once the plan feels right to your family. Inviting someone new into your home can feel like a big step, and we guide you through each part of it. Our office team speaks Spanish, too. Whenever you're ready, let's get started.
Yes. We provide 24-hour home care seven days a week, including holidays, so your loved one's care keeps going through weekends, Thanksgiving and every night in between.
Shift care uses five or six caregivers working eight-hour shifts. Around-the-clock care uses three caregivers who each work a 24-hour shift, so your loved one sees fewer faces and gets to know each caregiver well.
A 24-hour caregiver helps with bathing, dressing, grooming, feeding, transferring and walking, plus meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, errands, transportation, medication reminders and companionship. At night, that includes help with toileting and moving around safely.
A Caring Touch Home Care is a non-medical home care agency. Our caregivers help seniors and other adults with activities of daily living, such as bathing, dressing, meals and getting around, while your loved one's doctors and nurses look after their medical care.
Yes. Our post-hospital home care helps seniors settle back in with help for mobility, personal care, medication reminders, meals and the other daily tasks that support recovery, with a caregiver there through the night as well.
Our caregivers go through background checks and training, and we match them to each client by care needs, personality, preferences and schedule whenever possible. In California, home care aides who work for a licensed agency are background-checked and listed on the state's Home Care Aide Registry.
The cost depends on the level of care your loved one needs, and the free consultation gives you a personalized quote. We work with long-term care insurance providers to help cover the cost of services, and we also accept private pay and veterans benefits, including Veterans Direct In-Home Services and the Aid and Attendance benefit.
