HouseWorks provides private-pay services supporting independent living for seniors, the disabled, and their families. Their services include home care, handyman and adaptation services, cleanouts, and relocation assistance.
Home Care Services
HouseWorks employs personal care attendants (PCAs) to help clients with activities of daily living (ADLs) as well as household chores such as grocery shopping, meal preparation, errands, organizing, light housekeeping, and laundry. PCAs may take clients to appointments, assist with medication instructions, prepare meals, and encourage prescribed exercise. Services are available on an hourly, daily, or live-in basis, for daytime, evening, weekend, and holiday hours.
Handyman & Home Adaptations
HouseWorks performs a wide range of home maintenance and modifications. Maintenance services include repairing windows, stairs, doors, porches, cabinets, tiling, ceilings and walls, painting, and cleaning and repairing gutters. Adaptation services include building wheelchair ramps, installing grab bars in a shower, and rearranging living space to maximize safety.
Cleanouts
HouseWorks provides cleanout and organization of basements, attics, garages, or entire households, and can prepare a home for sale, and dispose of unwanted items. They also provide heavy cleaning such as resolving health-code violations, removing extreme pet odors and stains, and sanitizing heavily soiled interiors.
Relocation Assistance
HouseWorks provides comprehensive relocation services, from preparing the house for sale and sorting possessions, to planning the new living space, supervising moving day, and helping clients settle into their new home. They will also stay with the client until he or she feels oriented to their new surroundings.
Rates
Homecare rates are:
Rates for handyman services, cleanouts, and relocation vary.
HouseWorks -- (617) 928-1010, (800) 928-3393, or www.house-works.com.
HouseWorks is listed under many keywords in IRis including Housing/HomeModification, Housing/Moving, InHomeCare/ChoreHeavyCleaning, and InHomeCare/HomeMaking.
02/06