Home Care in Buckeye, AZ

Because Buckeye is such a long drive out west, Meridian Home Care plans visits ahead rather than on short notice. We set the days and hours with you, and they stay on the calendar. Planned, steady visits suit that distance: a weekday morning for a shower and breakfast, an afternoon of errands, or overnights a few nights a week.

Our personal care, companion care and 24-hour home care pages explain each kind of visit, and every service is on our home care services page. We also come out to Goodyear, Avondale and Surprise, and every town we serve is on our service areas page.

Buckeye runs BOLD, short for Buckeye On-Demand Local Dispatch. It's a pilot, so details can change. Check with the city before you count on it.

BOLD offers curb-to-curb shared rides inside Buckeye for residents who are 60 or older, have a disability, or are U.S. veterans, with paperwork to show it. The city lists a flat $2 one-way fare, and every vehicle can carry paratransit riders. Rides run weekdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Book at least one business day ahead through the GO BOLD app, online or by phone, and allow two business days for the application.

The Senior Center also gives registered participants 60 and older rides to and from the center. It offers limited rides to the doctor or dialysis too, for residents 60 and older or younger with a documented disability. Valley Metro Route 685 makes four local trips each weekday, with a stop at the Community Center on E Centre Avenue.

Curb-to-curb means the driver meets your family member at the curb. Getting from the recliner to the curb, and back inside afterward, is where a caregiver helps.

The Buckeye Senior Center is at 201 E Centre Avenue, open weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. It offers fitness classes, outings, parties and social programs. Lunch for adults 60 and older is served there weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., with a suggested $3 contribution that isn't required.

Home-delivered meals are for people who can't make an adequate meal on their own because of a physical, emotional or environmental condition. The city works with the Area Agency on Aging, and the center or the agency's 24-hour Senior Help Line can explain who qualifies. For trouble with utility bills or rent, the city runs a Social Services Program with Maricopa County's Community Action Program. It offers limited, short-term help to residents who qualify.

A delivered meal is one meal. A caregiver can handle the rest of the day: breakfast, a warm dinner, a full water glass in July and a clean kitchen at night. See our meals, laundry and housekeeping page.

Abrazo Buckeye Emergency Center, at 525 S Watson Road, is open 24 hours. It's a stand-alone emergency center and an extension of Abrazo West Campus in Goodyear, which handles more complex care. For everyday visits, Banner Health Center on W Market Street, near Verrado Way and I-10, is a family medicine and pediatrics clinic, not a hospital.

An ER visit or a hospital stay can leave someone shaky for a while. We can help with the first nights home, the bathroom trips and the ride to the follow-up visit. Our post-hospital care page explains how that help gets smaller as strength comes back.

Del Webb, the builder, describes Sun City Festival as a 55+ active adult community in Buckeye. Its pages list a 31,000-square-foot recreation center, a 27-hole golf course, 31 chartered clubs, a crafts studio and a softball complex.

Staying in that kind of community is easier with help at home. We can drive your loved one to the crafts studio or help them get ready for a club meeting. On the days they'd rather stay in, we keep them company. If someone else in the house is doing most of the caregiving, respite care gives them time for their own clubs and errands.

Buckeye's city history begins with a canal. The Buckeye Canal was laid out in May 1885, the post office was founded in March 1888, and the Arizona Eastern Railroad arrived in 1910. The town incorporated in 1929 with 440 acres, and Hugh M. Watson was its first mayor. Local history makes good conversation on a slow afternoon, especially with someone who likes telling their own stories.