A trained caregiver will be in your home during your chosen hours, staying alert to restlessness, changes in mood, or the behaviors that come before wandering. They'll keep common exit routes clear and safe, know your family member's preferred directions and destinations, and respond with calm, clear thinking if movement toward the door happens. You'll get a brief update when the shift ends. The goal is your family member living as normally as possible while someone is there who understands the risk.

If you call us from Hartford Hospital or within 24 hours of discharge, we can often match a caregiver and start the same day or the next morning. We keep a roster of trained staff ready for this exact situation. The first few days home after a hospital stay are when elopement risk often spikes, so we prioritize fast placement and make sure your caregiver has read your parent's history before they arrive.

Elopement Care is private pay. Medicare and most insurance plans don't cover monitoring for wandering or elopement risk because it's considered custodial rather than skilled nursing. We charge hourly rates that are transparent from the start, and we can discuss what daily or weekly hours fit your budget. Many families find that Elopement Care costs less than a private facility or assisted living, especially if your parent only needs it during certain hours.

A home health aide is trained to help with bathing, dressing, and activities of daily living, but their job description usually doesn't include monitoring for elopement risk. Our caregivers are specifically trained to recognize the behavioral signs that come before someone wanders, to understand the psychology of elopement, and to stay alert during the hours it's most likely to happen. If your parent needs both bathing help and elopement supervision, we can coordinate, but the two services are different.

Yes. We meet with you or talk by phone about your parent's personality, their preferred directions if they do wander, whether they respond better to men or women, whether they need calm or gentle redirection, and what times of day are highest risk. We then match a caregiver with elopement experience and the right temperament, and we brief them thoroughly before they start. The first match is the hardest one, but we take time to get it right.

We maintain backup coverage in East Windsor and surrounding towns so you don't lose a shift if your regular caregiver gets sick or has an emergency. We'll call you before the shift to confirm coverage and brief the backup caregiver on your family's situation. If we can't cover the hour, we tell you directly and early, not an hour before start time. You won't be left scrambling.