Home care in Sarasota, built around the life you’ve already made here

Private-pay home care in Sarasota usually runs $33 to $40 per hour for companion or personal care, and the effective rate drops on multi-hour and 24-hour packages. Long-term care insurance and VA Community Care often cover the whole thing. Call (941) 799-7559 for a Sarasota-specific quote.

Usually fast. For most Sarasota families we finish the in-home assessment within 24 hours of the first call and have a caregiver in the home the next day. Sarasota Memorial and Doctors Hospital discharges are often same-day. A complex 24-hour schedule can take 2 to 3 days to staff with the right team.

Employees. Every caregiver in Sarasota is a W-2 employee of A Perfect Choice Home Care, never an independent contractor and never a registry referral. We carry the payroll taxes, workers’ compensation, and liability insurance, so you’re never the employer of record.

Just call us. We re-match, no questions and no fee. Personality fit matters as much as clinical fit, and we’d much rather get it right on the second introduction than leave a client unhappy.

Not for ongoing care at home, in most cases. Original Medicare wasn’t designed to pay for continuing companion care or personal care, so the help we provide is usually funded another way: private pay, long-term care insurance, VA Community Care for veterans, or one of Florida’s Medicaid long-term care programs for those who qualify. Medicare does cover something different, short-term skilled nursing or therapy that a doctor orders after a hospital stay, and that comes from a Medicare-certified home health provider rather than from us. The two often run side by side, with our caregivers covering the daily routine while that clinical team makes its visits. Call (941) 799-7559 and we’ll sort out what fits.

Yes. In Sarasota we staff both true 24-hour care, with two awake caregivers on rotating shifts, and live-in care, with one caregiver who gets a protected 8-hour sleep window. Live-in costs less per day, but it only works when the client sleeps reliably through the night.

Yes. A Perfect Choice Home Care is a Florida-licensed home health agency, AHCA license HHA #299995428, and that license covers Sarasota County, including Sarasota, Siesta Key, Venice, and North Port.

It can. Florida’s SMMC-LTC waiver covers in-home help for eligible seniors, though eligibility hinges on both income and a functional assessment. We work with several of the plans that manage it. Honestly, the answer is “it depends,” and the only way to know for sure is to look at your situation, so call (941) 799-7559 and we’ll walk you through it.

Often, yes. We’re a VA Community Care Network provider, and eligible Sarasota veterans pay nothing out of pocket. If you’re not in the CCN, Aid and Attendance benefits can sometimes cover care instead. We handle the authorizations and bill the VA directly, so the paperwork doesn’t land on you. Call (941) 799-7559 to see what you qualify for.

Usually, yes. A steady routine, a few home-safety fixes, and caregivers trained in redirection keep most people with dementia safe in familiar surroundings. When wandering or sundowning gets to be too much, we can scale up to 24-hour coverage rather than push for a facility move. Call (941) 799-7559 and we’ll figure out the right level together.

Yes. We serve Sarasota as a Florida-licensed home health agency, and you can look us up with AHCA under license HHA #299995428. What we do is the home care most families picture when they think of help at home: companionship, personal care, dementia care, respite, and 24-hour support, delivered one caregiver to one client. We don’t provide or bill skilled nursing or therapy. When a physician orders that after a hospital stay, it comes through a Medicare-certified provider, a separate kind of agency, and our caregivers can keep the everyday care going around those visits. Call (941) 799-7559 and we’ll point you to the right level.