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Personal care assistance in Toms River, Brick and Ocean County

Help with bathing, dressing and the parts of the day that have become hard to manage alone — from aides certified by the New Jersey Board of Nursing, working to a plan a registered nurse signed off.

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To your free in-home visit
48 hrs
To the first day of care
1–3 days
Long-term contracts
No
Supervises every care plan
RN

What This Actually Looks Like

An aide arrives at a time you've agreed, for a visit long enough to be useful. She helps your father wash and dress, gets him settled with breakfast, prompts the medication he's meant to take, and tidies what's needed before she leaves.

Over a few weeks she learns how he likes things done. That's the part families tell us they didn't expect to matter as much as it does.

What's included

  • Bathing and hygiene support, at whatever level of help is actually needed
  • Dressing and grooming
  • Toileting assistance and routine support
  • Mobility support and safe transfers, within safe limits for one person
  • Medication reminders — prompting, not administering
  • Morning and evening routines, which is when most families find it hardest

When Families Usually Call Us About This

  • After a fall or a hospital stay, when washing alone stopped being safe.
  • When a parent refuses help from their own children but will accept it from someone whose job it is.
  • When one parent has been doing all of it for the other, and it's become too much.
  • When you're managing it remotely and the phone calls have stopped being reassuring.

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Where This Service Ends

This is non-medical care. That distinction matters more than it sounds like it does, so here's exactly where the line falls.

This service covers

  • Help with washing, dressing, grooming and toileting
  • Safe transfers within the limits of one person
  • Medication reminders
  • Meals, tidying and the routine around all of it

This service does not cover

  • Wound care, injections, IV therapy or anything else requiring a nurse or therapist
  • Transfers that now need two people
  • Administering medication rather than prompting it
  • Overnight one-hour check-ins or occasional cover

If what your father needs is skilled nursing, you need a home health agency rather than us — and we'll tell you which ones take his insurance.

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The Person Who Answers This Phone

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Peace Tsaku, MSW, founder of Key Family Care.

Peace Tsaku, MSW

Twenty-two years in home care, the last of them running this agency out of Tinton Falls rather than a franchise office in another state.

Every plan of care here is overseen by a registered nurse. The social workers on staff hold master's degrees, which matters more than it sounds like it should — it's usually how a family finds out about a state or community program nobody had mentioned to them.

Peace's direct line is 732-685-0786. When you call it, she answers. Not a receptionist, and not a national intake line.

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Questions About Personal Care Assistance

Is this medical care?
No. Our aides are certified home health aides providing non-medical support. A registered nurse supervises the plan of care, but nobody here provides skilled nursing.
Can you help my father if he's resistant to the idea?
Often, yes. Most people who refuse help from their children accept it from someone whose job it is. We start slowly and we don't force the pace.
What if he needs more help later?
The plan of care gets reviewed as things change. If what he needs moves past what we can do, we'll tell you — and tell you what you need instead.
Do you administer medication?
No. We remind and prompt. Administering medication requires a licensed nurse.
How many hours do we have to book?
The minimum is four hours per visit, 16 to 20 hours a week — roughly $560 to $760 a week before any insurance. Costs and coverage has the full breakdown.
Is it the same aide each time?
Wherever staffing allows, yes. Consistency is most of what makes this work, particularly for someone who was reluctant to begin with.
Does insurance cover this?
Traditional Medicare does not cover non-medical home care. Many Medicare Advantage plans do. We verify your specific plan before care begins.
How soon could someone start?
A free in-home visit within 48 hours, and care one to three days after that.

Tell Us What's Happening. We'll Tell You Straight Whether We Can Help.

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Office 732-268-8044 Peace's cell 732-685-0786 After-hours calls are returned the next morning.

Serving Monmouth County, Ocean County, Toms River, Freehold, Tinton Falls, Holmdel, Lincroft and Red Bank.