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Top Home Care Agencies in Charleston, NC

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Browse the 221 home care agencies in Charleston, read 4 reviews of families’ experiences, and learn about available services to find the best home care options near you. Families in Charleston choose home care for many reasons, including to reduce caregiver stress, curb senior loneliness, and make daily life easier for older adults. Most home care agencies in Charleston personalize their services to your needs and provide them as frequently or infrequently as needed.

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top3CommunitiesWithLinks: Quality Care @ Home, Options For Senior America - Cary and Affordable Family Care Services, Inc - Raleigh, NC
avgHourlyRateHC: $29
avgFulltimeRateHC: $5,453
nationalAvgRateHC: $32
avgParttimeRateHC: $2,479

stateAvgRateHC: $29
stateAverageCost: $5,508: monthly rate cost of home care in that state
totalResults: 221: The total number of home care agencies in that state
top3CommunitiesWithLinks: Quality Care @ Home, Options For Senior America - Cary and Affordable Family Care Services, Inc - Raleigh, NC: The top three home care agencies in that state
nationalAvgRateHC: $32: The national average cost of home care
avgParttimeRateHC: $2,479: The average cost of part-time home care in that state
avgFulltimeRateHC: $5,453: The average cost of full-time home care in that state

Home Care Agencies near Charleston, NC

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Photo of Quality Care @ Home
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Quality Care was very open to working with my mom's financial situation. My mom loves her personal care worker. I would recommend to others.
Provides: Home Care
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
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My moma has had this company for a few months. The caregivers are beautiful sweet ladies inside & out, thank you [name removed] for looking after my mother’s care with the utmost respect & love! [name...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
Options for Senior America is a home care agency that provides both live-in and live-out services. We are licensed by the State of N.C. Our aides are insured and bonded. We also do background checks on all aides. We have the same low rates for days, nights and weekends. We accept both private pay...
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My caregiver in my opinion has been very pleasant, compassionate, over and beyond her responsibility of taking care of mom, preparing a meal, snacks, doing mom's laundry, taking her for short walks around...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
Licensed for Hands on Care and Companion Services Fully Insured Licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Services Regulation Covering 14 counties out the Raleigh office: Wake, Alamance, Durham, Orange, Chatham, Vance, Person, Granville, Nash, Johnson, Lee,...
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Our father’s health has steadily declined over the past few years. Since his diagnosis, our family has done our very best to meet his growing personal and medical needs. However, as his condition continued...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
We Are Comfort Keepers™ Our Family Is Here To Give Comfort To Your Family. Nothing is more important than helping people to live independent and dignified lives within the comfort of their own homes. Comfort Keepers is dedicated to providing the kind of non-medical in-home care that helps to...
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Photo of Grandma Joan's Live-In Care Consulting and Recruiting
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I was in a real pinch to find the right care giver and "home manager" for my parents. Mom suffers from dementia and suddenly Dad, her main caregiver, had a stroke. Almost overnight, we needed immediate...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
About our Consulting and Recruiting ServicesGrandma Joan is an award-winning consulting and recruiter service that has been helping discerning families recruit, screen, and hire premium live-in caregivers since 2010.We act as the family’s private 3rd party recruiters, finding and screening the...
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They've been great. I can't say enough good things about them. They really go out of their way to hire the best staff that they can. They are very proactive in dealing with issues that may come up. They...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
Seniorcorp was established in 2003 to address the need in the South Hampton Roads community for compassionate, quality in-home care services for the aging population. Dedicated to 'changing the way America ages,' Seniorcorp offers seniors the ability to remain in their homes as they age, where...
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They came to me at the hotel for the initial interview. I was looking for a "live-in" (rather than caregiver shifts) for the ~ 3 weeks stay in the arbnb following my procedure. They have a caregiver who...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
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I was completely satisfied with the care my husband received. The staff was just great. It allowed me to keep him at home until we had to put him in hospice. The aid, [name removed], was caring and...
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I definitely would give Home Instead of Suffolk a high 5 stars. We needed caretaking on short notice and their Client Care Advisor promptly came to our home to get an understanding of what our needs were....
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I think they are great people. They have tried hard for my family. I personally would recommend them to anyone and everyone. I'll give them 5 stars on all thing's you just asked. The first young lady was the...
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I was really happy with them. My loved one was not nice at all to the first caregiver they sent, because she thought she didn't need their help. But I was pleasantly surprised that the caregiver came back...
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My mother has been with Preferred Care At Home for a few years now and we love them. The caregivers are wonderful, caring, very attentive and consistent. We have never had to worry about who was coming or...
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We received services in [date removed] for my mother. My mother loved her aide. She was so attentive to her needs and her safety. AlbertaCare was able to assist my mother stay in her home until she passed...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
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It has been good experience for my father with this home care agency. I'am satisfied with the services they have provided us with. The care givers they have sent out have been great. They help with cooking,...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
Life is so much more than a to-do list. It's a series of moments with the people we love, making memories that make up a lifetime. BrightStar understands this, and is committed to making more of those moments possible in the lives of those we care for.We created BrightStar because we once needed...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
The Support You Need When You Need It MostCOMFORT, INDEPENDENCE, AND DIGNITY     We tend to take them for granted until life threatens to take them away from us.  If you, or someone you love, are finding it difficult to do the things necessary to live comfortably at home,...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
HELPING HANDS PATIENT SERVICES is a limited liability corporation with a staff of dedicated lift team technicians and support personnel. HHPS’ mission is to provide safe patient handling, improve patient comfort, safety and recovery, and prevent employee injuries through skillful, compassionate...
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
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Home Care: Home care relies on trained aides to provide companionship and non-medical care for seniors living at home.
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Costs of home care in Charleston, NC

Home care costs vs. senior living costs in Charleston, NC

Home care costs in Charleston increase based on the hours of care needed. Costs are typically higher for seniors who need home care at night or for most of the day — for example, while a family member is at work. For seniors who need full-time or 24/7 care, assisted living or memory care may be a more cost-effective option in the long run.
44 hours of home care/wk
$5,453/mo
$6,708/mo
To learn more about other local senior living options, view Charleston assisted living facilities or Charleston memory care facilities.

Home care costs in Charleston vs. state and national averages

Daily, monthly, and annual costs in the table below are based on a part-time care schedule of 4 hours of care per day, 5 days per week.
Cost comparison table showing 2023 and 2024 median costs by location. This table contains 3 rows of data across 5 columns.
Column location: Location (Location name)
Column hourlyCost: Hourly cost (Cost per hour)
Column dailyCost: Daily cost (Cost per day (4 hours))
Column monthlyCost: Monthly cost (Cost per month)
Column annualCost: Annual cost (Cost per year)
LocationHourly costDaily costMonthly costAnnual cost
Charleston, NC$29$116$2,511$30,160
North Carolina$29$116$2,511$30,160
National$32$128$2,771$33,280
Charleston, NC
Hourly cost:$29
Daily cost:$116
Monthly cost:$2,511
Annual cost:$30,160
North Carolina
Hourly cost:$29
Daily cost:$116
Monthly cost:$2,511
Annual cost:$30,160
National
Hourly cost:$32
Daily cost:$128
Monthly cost:$2,771
Annual cost:$33,280
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How to pay for home care in Charleston, NC

Many families combine various payment methods to cover home care costs. Most often, families use some mixture of the following private and public income sources to pay for home care in Charleston.
Paying for home careGet an overview of all payment options for home care.
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Home care and LTC insuranceLearn how to use long-term care insurance to cover home care costs.

What families are saying about home care in Charleston

Recent reviews for home care in Charleston

BrightStar Care of Chesapeake, VA

5.0
Britestar has helped us manage the transition of practically round the clock care always providing staff reliably! They are now helping us to mange the move to a long term care facility with support, vital information and compassion.

AlbertaCare LLC in Raleigh, NC

5.0
I can't say enough about Alberta Care! From the time I first met [name removed] and [name removed] until now, I have been totally pleased with their service! [name removed], [name removed] and [name removed]have been my caregivers and each one is excellent in their own way. All three are "down ...
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Grandma Joan's Live-In Care Consulting and Recruiting in Oakland, NJ

5.0
Grandma Joan's provided me with a very easy to use platform to find and employ a live-in caregiver for my 104-year-old dad. All the administrative details which would have been very hard for me to find out and deal with were included in the step-by-step guidance provided. On one hand the service ...
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