A Local Partner for Non-Medical Home Care
Gentle Touch Home Assist supports the clients you are already caring for — with the everyday help that keeps someone safely at home once your part of their care is finished.
Where we fit
We provide non-medical in-home care: help with bathing and dressing, meals, light housekeeping, medication reminders, mobility support, transportation and companionship. We are the hands-on daily support that sits alongside skilled care rather than replacing it.
That makes us a natural fit after a hospital or rehab discharge, alongside home health or hospice, or when a family is trying to delay a move to assisted living. Care can run from a few hours a week up to 24-hour and live-in support.
Coverage: Plainfield, Naperville, Bolingbrook, Joliet, Shorewood, Hinsdale, Oak Brook, Burr Ridge, Western Springs, Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, Gold Coast, Streeterville, River North, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Will County, DuPage County, Cook County, Lake County, Surrounding Chicagoland Communities. Call to confirm a specific address.
Professionals who refer to us
Hospital & rehab discharge planners
Support in place for the day someone comes home, so a discharge is not delayed by a gap in daily care.
Home health & hospice agencies
The bathing, meals and housekeeping your clinical staff cannot provide, coordinated around your visit schedule.
Assisted living & senior communities
One-to-one support for residents who need more than the community provides, and for families not yet ready to move.
Geriatric care managers
A dependable agency to carry out the plan you have built, with a written care plan and a caregiver matched to the client.
Elder law attorneys & financial advisors
Clients holding long-term care policies often do not know how to put them to use. We work with private pay and long-term care insurance.
Faith communities & senior services
A local, licensed option for congregants and clients who need help staying at home safely.
Exactly where the line sits
Stated plainly so you never send someone we cannot help.
What we provide
- Bathing, dressing, grooming and toileting support
- Meal planning and preparation
- Light housekeeping and laundry
- Medication reminders
- Mobility support and safe transfer assistance
- Transportation to appointments and errands
- Companionship and supervision
- Dementia and Alzheimer's support
- Overnight, 24-hour and live-in care
- Respite for family caregivers
What we do not provide
We are a non-medical agency. The following require a licensed clinician and are outside our scope:
- Skilled nursing care
- Wound care or injections
- Administering medication, as distinct from reminding
- Physical, occupational or speech therapy
- Diagnosis, treatment or any medical advice
If a client needs both, we are glad to work alongside the home health or hospice agency providing the clinical care.
How care is paid for
Accepted
- Private pay
- Long-term care insurance
Not accepted
- Medicare
- Veterans' benefits
Medicare does not cover ongoing non-medical home care of the kind we provide in any case. If a program we do not accept is the only realistic way to fund a client's care, we will say so honestly rather than book an assessment that cannot go anywhere.
How to make a referral
Call or email us
Tell us what the client needs, where they live and when care would need to begin. We will tell you honestly what we can arrange.
We contact the family
With the family's permission, we reach out directly so you are not left coordinating between us.
Free in-home assessment
We visit at no cost and no obligation to understand routines, safety concerns and what support would genuinely help.
Written care plan and caregiver match
We put together a plan built around the client, match a screened caregiver, and introduce them properly before care begins.
Sending us client details
About our caregivers
- Licensed, bonded and insured in Illinois
- Application, interview, background screening and documentation before any assignment
- Orientation and training completed before a first visit
- Matched on care needs, schedule and temperament — and changed if the fit is wrong
- Supervised by a local office you can reach by name
Have a client who needs support at home?
Call us and we will tell you honestly what we can arrange, and how quickly.