Personal Care at Home in Austin, TX
Personal home care helps clients maintain dignity and confidence while receiving vital support with essential activities of daily living. Our dedicated caregivers and home health aides provide attentive and respectful senior care services at home. We tailor services to your loved one’s schedule and needs. This helps ensure safety, comfort, and peace of mind.
What personal care actually means
Personal care is the hands-on end of home care. Where companion care is conversation, errands and a set of eyes in the house, personal care is physical assistance with the activities of daily living — the tasks a person has to complete every day to stay clean, safe, fed and mobile.
In practice that usually starts with the bathroom. A shower stops feeling safe, a walker no longer clears the tub rail, and the rest of the routine slips from there. A caregiver arrives on a set schedule, helps through bathing, dressing and grooming, steadies transfers between bed, chair and toilet, and reminds about medication that has already been sorted by the family or a nurse.
This is non-medical care. Our caregivers do not administer injections, change sterile dressings, or perform any task that requires a nursing license in Texas. What they do is keep the day running with dignity, and tell you early when something changes.
Signs it's time for personal care
Families rarely call after one incident. They call after the third time something on this list happens in a month. If two or more sound familiar, an assessment is worth the hour.
Book a free assessment →What a personal care shift includes
Every plan is written for one person, so no visit uses all of this. The care plan names the tasks, the order, and the preferences — right down to which towel and what time the coffee goes on.
- Shower, tub or bed bath assistance
- Hair washing, shaving, nail and skin care
- Oral care and denture cleaning
- Choosing and putting on clothing
- Compression socks and braces
- Morning and bedtime routines
- Bathroom assistance and scheduled prompting
- Brief and pad changes, discreet clean-up
- Skin checks to prevent breakdown
- Bed, chair and toilet transfers
- Walker and wheelchair support
- Repositioning and range-of-motion prompts
- Meal prep to dietary restrictions
- Feeding assistance where needed
- Reminders from a pre-filled pill organizer
- Light housekeeping and laundry tied to care
- Changing linens and bathroom safety checks
- Written shift notes the family can read
Care plans written around the diagnosis
Caregivers are matched to the condition, not just the address. Where a client has a diagnosis on this list, the coordinator briefs the caregiver on what changes look like and who to call.
How personal care starts
No assessment fee, no obligation, and nothing signed until you have met the caregiver. Most families go from first call to first shift inside 72 hours.
Call or request a visit
A care coordinator asks about the day-to-day, the diagnosis, and the budget. Fifteen minutes, no script.
In-home assessment
We walk the home, flag safety risks, and write a plan with hours, tasks, and cost in writing — free.
Meet your caregiver
You approve the match before care begins, and you can request a different caregiver at any point.
Every caregiver, screened before the first shift
Personal care means someone is in the bathroom with your parent. We hire for that, and we can show you the file behind any caregiver we send.
Families using personal care
"The care and communication made our family feel supported from the very beginning. We felt heard, respected, and confident that our loved one was in good hands."
"The caregiver was kind, patient, and reliable. Having someone we could trust made a huge difference for our family."
"Care4Austin helped us create a plan that worked for our schedule and gave us peace of mind every single day."
Personal Care across the Austin metro
Caregivers are scheduled from the neighbourhood out, so travel time does not come out of your hours. If your address is not listed, call — coverage changes weekly.
(512) 925-6199Start with an assessment, not a contract.
Tell us what a hard day looks like and we will tell you how many hours of personal care would actually help — even if the answer is fewer than you expected.