Free NJ Home Care Toolkit for Families
Interactive tools built by Sofia Elmer, RN and the 24 HOUR Home Care NJ team — free to use, no signup required. Figure out what level of care your parent needs, get a rate estimate, verify long-term care insurance, print a hospital discharge checklist. Yours to keep whether you hire us or not.
★★★★★ 4.9 · 127+ NJ family reviews · Free · No signup · Yours to keep
Which Care Level Fits Your Parent?
3-minute interactive quiz. Six questions score your loved one across seven care tiers (companion → 24-hour). Get a personalized recommendation instantly.
Take the quiz →Care Cost Estimator
Live calculator: service tier × hours/week × NJ region + dementia specialty → estimated monthly cost range. 2026 NJ market rates. No guessing.
Estimate my cost →Interactive NJ County Map
Click any of the 21 NJ counties to jump to local caregiver info, response times, and service details for your area.
Open the map →NJ Hospital Discharge Checklist
Pick your NJ hospital from 30+ options → get a printable one-page checklist tailored to that hospital: medications, red-flag symptoms, home setup, follow-up appointments.
Generate my checklist →Free LTCi Verification
Send us your carrier + policy #. Sofia RN calls the carrier directly and emails you a written breakdown within 24 hours. Yours to keep.
Request LTCi verification →VA Aid & Attendance Assistance
If you (or your parent) served in a wartime era, VA A&A pays up to $2,795/mo toward home care. Sofia helps you file — free per VA rules.
Check A&A eligibility →Save Sofia RN to Contacts
One tap on mobile → Sofia’s number saves to your phone contacts. Adult children scanning at hospital parking lots love this.
Download vCard →Same-Day Discharge Line
Coming home from an NJ hospital today or tomorrow? Sofia RN answers direct — caregiver at the door within 24-48 hours in most cases.
Read urgent-discharge info →Why we give these tools away
Families making home care decisions are usually stressed, tired, and short on time. The vast majority of home care questions have simple answers — but you have to know where to look. Sofia Elmer, RN and the 24 HOUR Home Care NJ team built these tools because we’d rather NJ families reach informed decisions than uninformed ones, whether the informed decision is to hire us or not.
The care level quiz, the cost estimator, and the discharge checklist all reflect the same knowledge we use internally when Sofia is on the phone with a family. Nothing hidden. Use them at 2 AM, use them at your kitchen table, use them with your siblings on FaceTime. If you hit a moment where you want a human — Sofia answers at (908) 912-6342.
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“The right caregiver notices before you do. Bathing changes, appetite dips, mood shifts — those come up in shift notes, not in the ER.”
Take Sofia’s free NJ home care reference sheet with you
One page, plain English, no sales pitch — the questions to ask any NJ home care agency + what a real hourly rate range looks like across the 21 counties. Sofia RN made it for you.