Craig Cares

Craig Cares — Sacramento Senior Home Care

Our goal is to help you maintain your freedom and independence right in the comfort of your own home. Our team of long-term exceptional caregivers work hard to help you feel relaxed and comfortable, while providing you with attentive in-home care in the Sacramento metropolitan area.

We truly want to make a difference in the way that you view in-home healthcare by offering the very best in quality care giving. We know that you will be pleased with our services and we encourage you to look around our website and see what others are saying about Craig Cares.

Craig Falk is the founder of Craig Cares, a Roseville, California company that provides caregivers to elderly who are still living in their own homes. His compassion, patience, and integrity are well suited to the challenges of home care.

He focuses on treating his caregivers and office staff with respect, generosity, and appreciation so that they can provide Craig Cares clients with the best home care possible.

Prior to founding Craig Cares in 2002, Craig worked for Cardinal Health in Folsom, California for 11 years. His work with Cardinal included extensive business travel. In fact, Craig had traveled to all 50 U.S. states by the time he was 30.

While at Cardinal, Craig managed teams of up to 30 professionals. While he loved Cardinal and his work there, Craig always wanted to have his own business and chose home care after asking friends what services were needed in the Sacramento area.

After over six months of rigorous research, Craig wrote a detailed business plan, and launched the business. At the begining, Craig hired a consultant, Ginny Kenyon, RN, who worked with him side-by-side to get started on the right track.

Craig Cares provided service to its first client the following week. The company has grown steadily with almost 100 active caregivers while providing service to over 750 clients since 2002. Craig loves working with seniors and those who share that love.

In 2006, Craig Cares was awarded the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award by the Roseville Chamber of Commerce. Craig received his Bachelor's degree from California State University, Chico and his Master's Degree from San Francisco State University.

Craig lives with his lovely wife and two very active boys in Roseville.

Our Services

Personal Care: Help with dressing and undressing. Help with showering, shampooing, and shaving. Help client use the toilet, protecting dignity and privacy. Provide safe assistance getting in and out of bed, chairs, wheelchairs, and cars. Put on elastic stockings and other supports.

Light Housekeeping: Pick-up and straighten, dust, sweep and vacuum. Clean kitchen and bathroom. Wash and iron clothes for client. Change sheets. Take out the garbage.

Household Organization: Clean out refrigerator. Discard spoiled and expired food. Run errands with client: grocery store, bank, library, hairdresser, post office.

Personal Care Plan: Your needs and the needs of your family are unique. A flexible and customzied, personal care plan is designed to improve your quality of life through:

• Carefully selected and trained caregivers
• Consistent caregiver relationships
• Rapid start-up times
• Regular family updates
• Internet access to care plan and schedule via GenerationsUnite.com

Meal Preparation: Encourage good nutrition. Prepare tasty meals that meet dietary needs. Offer enticing snacks and beverages throughout the day .Plan meals according to clients needs, and make grocery list. Do grocery shopping. Wash client's dishes.

Companionship: Maintain routines, revive interests. Try new activities – anything from shopping the sales to attending a meeting for retired professionals. Help client stay in touch with friends, family and the community. Read aloud from newspapers, magazines, novels, snail mail and email. Organize family photos and mementos in albums. Listen to the stories.

Supervision: Provide unobtrusive supervision. Tactfully redirect client from unsafe activity. Provide sensitive reminders to use cane or walker correctly. Encourage safe exercise. Walk with client, do prescribed exercises together.

Medication Reminders: Remind client to take medicine. Assist clients with medications which are normally self-administered.

Other Services

• Hourly and Live-In Personal Care
• Free Comprehensive In-Home Assessment
• Bathing, Dressing and Basic Personal Hygiene Assistance
• Incontinence Assistance, Toileting
• Light Housekeeping, Laundry and Linen Change
• Prescribed Exercises
• Household Organization
• A Written, Detailed Personal Care Plan
• Grocery Shopping, Meal Preparation
• Companionship
• Respite for Family Cargivers
• Escort and Supervision
• Medication Reminders
• Transfer and Standby Assistance
• Coordinate Billing with Long Term Care Insurance
• Other services are available to meet your individual needs