Affordable Home Care

New York Foundation for Senior Citizens’ Respite Care Program provides affordable short term in-home care for frail New York City residents ages 60+ struggling to maintain themselves on their own and those with caregivers who need time to themselves.

Complete Intake Form

Social Workers conduct home visits to assess their needs for and assign trained and carefully screened Certified Home Aides. They assist with personal care, light housekeeping, shopping, cooking, laundry, companionship and escorting to and from medical appointments and hospitalizations and comfortably settling back home thereafter.

Home Health Aides are paid directly by care recipients and/or caregivers. The cost of Certified Home Health Aide care is:

• one person households: $19.65/hour weekdays and $19.90/hour on weekends plus $6.00
  per day carfare; and multiple person households: $20.65/hour and $20.90/hour on
  weekends plus $6.00 per day carfare.
• free-of-charge for frail older adults, whose primary caregivers are temporarily
  unavailable after 5PM, weekends, holidays and in emergencies. Preference is given to
  care recipients with annual incomes of $55,000 or less.

“This service is a real life saver. I am grateful to NYFSC for making this free in-home service available at the moment my mother and I so desperately needed it,” says Steve from Queens, New York.

The program is made possible through the support of the New York State Governor’s Executive Budget, New York State Legislature, New York State Office for the Aging, New York City Council Members, New York City Department for the Aging, and the generosity of private foundations and donors.

To apply for the Respite Care Program:

• Complete Intake Form