Home Care in Sun City, AZ

The average Sun City household is fewer than two people, per Census figures. That means a lot of homes with just two people, or one person living alone. When one of them gets sick, the other often becomes the caregiver. It tends to happen a little at a time, until one person is doing the cooking, the driving, the pill reminders and the nights.

Respite care gives that family caregiver some time back. A caregiver from our team comes for a set morning or afternoon each week, or for a night so they can sleep through. While they're out at the rec center, at their own doctor's visit or at lunch with friends, we keep the day going at home. That means lunch on time, the pill reminder, help to the bathroom and a card game at the kitchen table.

Banner Sun Health Research Institute is located in Sun City. It offers clinical care, prevention and education for memory and movement disorders, including Alzheimer's, other dementias and Parkinson's. It also has a Center for Healthy Aging and support groups, and a Brainhealth Check-in on weekdays by appointment.

The diagnosis and treatment stay with those specialists. What we bring is the day at home. For someone with memory loss, that's a calm routine, gentle help with bathing and dressing, and company through the restless late afternoon. Our dementia home care page goes into more detail. For Parkinson's, it's a steady arm on walks, meals that are easy to manage and rides to appointments. That's all on our chronic condition care page.

Banner Boswell Medical Center on West Thunderbird Boulevard opened in 1970. Banner describes it as a medical center specializing in diseases of the elderly. It's a primary stroke center with a heart center, neurosciences and palliative care.

Coming home after a stroke or a heart stay can change the house overnight. A walker needs room to get through the hallway. The shower may need a chair. We help with the first trip through the door, bathroom trips, meals, and rides to the follow-up visits on the discharge papers. Doctors, nurses and therapists handle the medical side, and we cover the everyday help around it. How the first weeks work is laid out on our post-hospital care page.

The Recreation Centers of Sun City is a private nonprofit that owns and runs the community's facilities. That includes eight recreation centers and eight golf courses. It also covers the Lakeview and Bell bowling centers, the Sun Bowl amphitheater, 33-acre Viewpoint Lake and the Duffeeland off-leash dog park.

When getting around gets harder, those places can quietly drop out of the week. Companion care helps keep them in. We can drive your loved one to their league at Lakeview or take the dog to Duffeeland. On cooler mornings, we can walk with them by the lake.

Banner Olive Branch Senior Center on North 103rd Avenue serves breakfast and lunch daily. It has a food pantry on site and runs a Home Delivered Meal program. The Sun City Community Assistance Network on West Coggins Drive helps low-income seniors and people with disabilities by appointment. Its help covers utility discounts, prescription drug programs, Medicare and Social Security questions, and tax paperwork.

The Sun City Posse works for the safety and well-being of residents, and it offers a Vacation Watch sign-up. That's handy for snowbird families. If the person you care for heads north for the summer, or stays with you after a surgery, it's worth signing the house up. When they're back home, we can pick up the meals, laundry and light housekeeping on our home help for seniors page.

Sun City sits out on the west side of the Valley, so Meridian Home Care plans visits there ahead and sets them on a regular schedule. If you'd rather talk late at night once the house is quiet, you can reach us 24/7. We also come out to Sun City West, Peoria and El Mirage. Every town is on our service areas page, and the full range of help is on our home care services page.