Home Instead Senior Care Reviews

Home Instead signed a contract to provide a caregiver at the times/days we requested but were never able to provide a permanent one. Very inflexible shifts. Focused on their needs - not the patient. We requested one who could transport to doctor appointments and they sent someone who could not. Once sent a caregiver just to transport for one day. I am not comfortable putting my spouse in the car with someone I never met. They cancelled the next day's shift at the end of a prior day leaving me no time to make arrangements. Used a coordinator for care temporarily but didn’t find a permanent caregiver and cancelled the contract with short notice. They agreed it was not acceptable to cancel a shift but they did and then totally cancelled us saying that the problem was that we were annoyed that they promised a caregiver they could not provide, transportation they could not provide, and cancelled and changed arrangements too many times.

I'm writing this in regards to the Akron, Ohio, franchise. Your experience may vary w/ other franchises. Caregivers were consistently 10-15 minutes late but clocked in on time, so my mom was overcharged. They bought groceries with my mom's debit card without her present, even though they were not allowed to do so (per manager). Some aides were great; others, not so much. There was no consistency.

A franchisee of Home Instead did not investigate a possible burglary after the death of a client. The home health aide, according to security cameras, was shown burglarizing my mother’s apartment on the night she died. Administration failed to act to determine if it was their employee.

Every Direct Care employee and Administration staff was kind and listened to our needs. My husband needed nightly assistance for 6 months while he recovered from a lengthy hospital stay. The schedule was covered and calls were made ahead of time. The staff knew we had a dog. We will use them again.

For the past few months, I have been using Home Instead-Oak Park’s services for my bed-bound grandmother. I have nothing but good things to say about this company! The caregiver that was sent to take care of my grandmother weekly has treated her like one of the family. She was very patient with her and was definitely that companion she needed. They are also very accommodating and always had a caregiver on hand for days when my husband and I wanted to have our date nights. Again, I have nothing but good things to say and will continue to use them in the future.

Awful. Staff are undertrained and incapable of caring for dementia patients. For the most part, they are friendly, but when it comes to doing actual work, they fall short. We caught our caregiver putting my 96-year-old grandmother back to bed in the morning without breakfast or her medicine so that the caregiver could study. None of the caregivers we tried were able to cook simple, nutritious meals, none of them were capable of helping to shower my grandmother, and they failed to provide any stimulating activities for her during the day. They would just sit here in front of the tv. It was so upsetting and a total waste of money.

I would never recommend the service for family member, friends or my enemy due there lack or respect and care. they say they uphold, as a family company!! what a joke!!! The treatment my Husband received after tragic situation that the client died in the Bunbury southwest community. All I can say it is more than disgraceful as the company service made a couple phone calls after the tragic incident that occurred and they never touched base again to this day.. The mental trauma that it caused my Husband and myself as his wife picking up the pieces with no support from home instead no contact not even a card of email over the weeks or months this is proof what sort of company would want to work for if that how they tear you and act.. what do they really stand for!!

We started using Home Instead of Mishawaka because the VA chose it for us. My husband was a Vietnam veteran and was getting his health care through the VA AND he was also a Hospice patient. At my initial meeting with a representative, I was quite impressed. She said all the things I wanted to hear. I specifically wanted to know if any of their caregivers had experience with ALS patients. She assured me that they did and that's who we would get. She asked me if there were any "absolutes" in caregivers. I said they have to like, if not love dogs. We have a 12 pound Shih Tzu who is easily the sweetest dog in Indiana. Again, I was assured that we would get only dog lovers.

We needed more hours of coverage for our mom. In addition to private care, we contacted Comfort Keepers and Home Instead. In less than 3 weeks Comfort Keepers people did not show up as scheduled... No notice to family at all one time... Text at 1130 at night for next am. Home Instead has been very good about keeping us informed of schedule issues. One of the 2 caregivers that have come is a good fit. The other was terrible and even dissed us when we asked her to wear a mask. She sat and did nothing her whole shift. We have asked them not to send her anymore.

Used the company website to make contact and request information on care and price. Was told someone would contact me next evening. Didn't happen. Rang that evening, got through to emergency line, only line open, was told person in my area would contact me lunch time next day, was given a name. Next day no contact! My conclusion don't bother with this firm 'cause they couldn't be bothered with you.