Home care for veterans, and honest help with what pays for it
Care at home across the South Shore and MetroWest for veterans and surviving spouses — plus a straight answer on which VA benefits are worth pursuing.
VA Approved Vendor since 2007. Where care is authorised, we invoice the VA directly.
- VA Approved Vendor — we invoice the VA directly where care is authorised
- We’ll tell you plainly whether a claim looks worth making
- Caregivers used to working with veterans and their families
Talk to our care team
Tell us about his service and what’s needed now. A care manager calls you back — usually the same day.
A member of our care team will call you back, usually the same day. No obligation.
Does any of this sound familiar?
The care part is usually the easy bit. Working out who pays for it is where families get stuck.
- You’ve heard there’s help available, but nobody can tell you exactly what.
- The paperwork looks like it was designed to be given up on.
- He won’t ask for help, because he has never once asked for help.
- You were told a benefit exists, but not whether he actually qualifies.
- You’re paying privately for care that might already be covered.
Aid and Attendance is the benefit missed most often. We can’t approve a claim — only the VA can — but one conversation is usually enough to tell whether it’s worth starting.
Two different routes, and they work differently
People use these terms interchangeably and then get confused about why the answer doesn’t fit. They’re not the same thing.
VA Community Care
Care arranged and authorised through the VA itself, with approved providers invoicing the VA directly. Where this applies, the family generally isn’t handling the payments.
- We’re an approved vendor for this
- Authorisation comes from the VA, not from us
- Hours are set by what’s been approved
Aid and Attendance
An increase to a VA pension for veterans or surviving spouses who need help with daily living. It’s paid to the household, and the family then chooses the care provider.
- Surviving spouses may also qualify
- Paid monthly, and you choose the provider
- Applications take time — start early
We’re a care provider, not the VA, and we can’t decide an application or promise an outcome. What we can do is tell you quickly which route looks relevant, so you’re not spending months on the wrong form. For formal advice, an accredited Veterans Service Officer is free and is the right person to file a claim.
What veteran home care covers
- Personal care: bathing, showering, dressing and grooming
- Help with mobility, transfers and preventing falls
- Meals, medication reminders and light housekeeping
- Companionship from caregivers used to working with veterans
- Transport to VA appointments and to the pharmacy
- Overnight and round-the-clock cover where it’s needed
- Direct invoicing to the VA where care has been authorised
- Straight answers on eligibility before you commit to anything
How it works
Three steps, and you can stop at any of them.
You call, or send the form
We listen. No script, no sales pitch, no obligation.
We visit, free of charge
We come to the home and build a care plan around what’s actually needed.
Care begins
Often within 24 to 48 hours. You can change or stop it at any point.
Checked, certified and independently rated
Letting someone into a parent’s home is a decision built on trust. These are the things that were verified by somebody other than us.
Great Place To Work Certified
Awarded on what our own caregivers say about working here.
BBB Accredited, A+ Rating
The Better Business Bureau’s highest rating for how we treat clients.
VA Approved Vendor
Approved to provide care funded through Veterans Affairs benefits.
Provider of Choice 2026
Based on verified interviews with the families we actually care for.
Leader in Excellence 2026
The top tier of the Best of Home Care awards, held by very few agencies.
Employer of Choice 2026
Caregivers who stay longer means fewer changes of face for your family.
Every caregiver is our own employee — background checked, insured and bonded. We never subcontract.
We’d been paying out of pocket for eight months. One phone call and they pointed us at the route we should have been looking at from the start. I only wish we’d rung sooner.
Michael D.Son · Weymouth
Towns we serve
Two offices, covering the South Shore and MetroWest.
Hingham · Cohasset · Norwell · Duxbury · Scituate · Marshfield · Hanover · Pembroke · Braintree · Weymouth · Milton · Quincy · Wellesley · Westwood · Dedham · Brookline · Canton · Sharon · Norwood · Walpole
Not on the list? Call us anyway — we may still be able to cover you.
Norwell office
275 Longwater Dr, Norwell, MA 02061
Serving the South Shore
Wellesley office
170 Worcester St, Wellesley, MA 02481
Serving MetroWest
Common questions
Are we likely to qualify for VA-funded care?
What is Aid and Attendance?
Do surviving spouses qualify?
Will the VA pay you directly?
How long does approval take?
Can care start before the paperwork comes through?
Not sure what he’s entitled to?
Very few families are. Tell us about his service and what’s needed now, and we’ll tell you which route looks worth pursuing — and who to speak to in order to file it properly.
Or send the form and we’ll call you back.
Find out what he’s entitled to. One phone call.
We answer in person, seven days a week. Tell us about his service and what’s needed, and we’ll tell you where to start.