24 Hour Home Care NJ serves families across Union Township in Union County, including the 07083 ZIP, with NJ-certified Home Health Aides and RN-supervised care at home. According to 24 Hour Home Care NJ, every case is designed and reviewed by Sofia Elmer, RN, our Care Coordinator, so the aide in your parent’s apartment or house is working from a written care plan rather than guessing. We cover 24-hour continuous care, live-in rotations, overnight shifts, hourly companion visits, post-surgery recovery, and dementia care. Call Sofia directly at (908) 912-6342 for a free assessment, usually within 24 to 48 hours of the first phone call.

Home care services we deliver in Union, NJ

Below are the service lines our Union Township families use most often. According to 24 Hour Home Care NJ, the right level depends on how much supervision your parent needs overnight, how steady they are on their feet, and whether cognition is still intact.

24-hour home care in Union

Two or three NJ-certified Home Health Aides rotate in 12-hour shifts so someone is awake, present, and documenting around the clock. This is the right level for a parent who wanders at night, has fallen more than once in the last ninety days, or has advanced dementia with sundowning. Shifts are covered by Sofia, RN, who writes the care plan and visits in person for the initial assessment and ongoing supervision.

Live-in care in Union

One Home Health Aide stays in the home for 24 hours at a time with a contractual eight-hour sleep period, under New Jersey labor rules. Live-in works when your parent sleeps most of the night without needing hands-on help. If your parent needs toileting assistance three or more times between midnight and 6 a.m., we move the case to 24-hour rotating shifts so no one is working while legally supposed to be asleep.

Overnight care

Overnight-only shifts run from the evening (typically 8 p.m. or 9 p.m.) through the morning (typically 7 a.m. or 8 a.m.). An awake aide monitors for falls, toileting, confusion, and medication reminders. Many Union families start here when daytime is covered by a spouse or adult child but the nighttime risk is what keeps the family awake. We can usually start overnight within 48 hours.

Hourly companion and personal care

Shifts of four hours and up for bathing, dressing, meal prep, laundry, light housekeeping, medication reminders, grocery runs, and companionship. This is the level most Union seniors begin at, often two or three visits a week, and families scale up as needs change. Our aides also drive to and from medical appointments inside Union County and the immediately bordering towns, in the client’s vehicle.

Post-surgery and hospital-discharge recovery

Short-term coverage after a surgical procedure or hospital stay, coordinated with the discharge planner at Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth, Overlook Medical Center in Summit, or Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair. Sofia, RN, reads the discharge paperwork, confirms the medication list, and sets a care plan that keeps the surgical site, mobility restrictions, and follow-up appointments on track. Aides support ambulation and ADLs; clinical tasks that fall outside CHHA scope are handled by Sofia or a visiting nurse where ordered.

Dementia and Alzheimer’s care

Our dementia caregivers are trained in redirection, structured routines, wandering prevention, sundowning management, and non-pharmacological engagement. For Union families whose loved one lives at Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center on Chestnut Street, inside The Club at Autumn Ridge on Ridge Drive, or in a private home on streets like Morris Avenue, Burnet Avenue, or Stuyvesant Avenue, we provide a one-on-one familiar face who can stay with your parent while the facility staff rotate.

Who we serve in Union Township

24 Hour Home Care NJ supports several distinct Union populations:

Seniors aging in place in private Union homes

The majority of our Union clients live in their own single-family home or condo and want to stay there. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Union Township has a 2020 population of 59,728, and roughly 16.9% of residents are age 65 or over, which translates to over 10,000 seniors inside the township boundaries. Many are long-time homeowners on streets off Morris Avenue, Stuyvesant Avenue, or in the Battle Hill, Townley, and Washington neighborhoods, who prefer home over a facility move.

Residents of senior communities in Union

We provide one-on-one in-apartment care for residents of 55+ and senior communities inside Union Township, including The Club at Autumn Ridge (1200 Ridge Drive, a 55+ active adult rental community) and Schaefer Gardens (35 Sumner Avenue, a 62+ community). An in-apartment aide can bridge the gap between what the community offers at the building level (social, meals, maintenance) and what a resident with declining mobility or memory actually needs hour by hour.

Short-term stays at Cornell Hall and discharge home

Cornell Hall Care & Rehabilitation Center, at 234 Chestnut Street in Union, is a skilled nursing and rehab facility that many Union families use for short-term post-hospital rehab. When your parent discharges home from Cornell Hall after a rehab stay, we can be in the house the day they come home so the transition is covered and the gains from rehab are not lost in the first week.

Hospital-discharge families

Union sits between three major hospital systems. Trinitas Regional Medical Center at 225 Williamson Street in Elizabeth (RWJBarnabas Health) is the closest acute-care hospital for most Union residents. Overlook Medical Center at 99 Beauvoir Avenue in Summit (Atlantic Health System) and Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair are also within a short drive. We coordinate with discharge planners at all three.

Long-term-care insurance and VA Aid & Attendance beneficiaries

Union has a sizable long-term-care-insurance population from retired educators, union members, and state workers who bought LTCI in the 1990s and 2000s. We also serve Union veterans and surviving spouses using VA Aid & Attendance. See the Payment section below.

How 24 Hour Home Care NJ works

According to 24 Hour Home Care NJ, our process is designed so a Union family can go from first phone call to caregiver-in-the-home in 24 to 48 hours, without a long sales process.

1. Phone intake with Sofia Elmer, RN at (908) 912-6342. Fifteen minutes. We ask about diagnoses, mobility, medications, overnight risk, and the family’s goal.
2. Free in-home assessment. Sofia drives to Union and spends 45 to 60 minutes with you and your parent. She writes the care plan on paper you keep.
3. Caregiver match. We select a Home Health Aide whose availability, skills, and personality fit the plan. For dementia and overnight cases, we match for experience in those specific scenarios.
4. Care starts. Sofia introduces the aide on day one in the home. There is a written schedule, a written task list, and a shift log.
5. Ongoing RN supervision. Sofia reviews the shift log, checks in on the aide, and visits the home for scheduled reassessments. If anything changes with your parent, the plan changes too.

Clinical tasks that fall outside the Home Health Aide scope of practice in New Jersey, such as medication administration, wound care, injections, tube feeding, or tracheostomy care, are performed by Sofia or by a physician-ordered visiting nurse. The aide supports, observes, and documents, which is the model New Jersey’s Division of Consumer Affairs requires.

Service area around Union, NJ

From our Union-area dispatch radius we cover the following Union County municipalities, every one of which borders Union Township directly or sits within a 10 to 15 minute drive:

• Elizabeth (immediate southeast border, Trinitas home campus)
• Hillside (immediate east border, Essex county line)
• Springfield Township (immediate west border)
• Kenilworth (immediate south border)
• Roselle Park (immediate south border)
• Roselle (short drive south)
• Linden (short drive south)
• Westfield (short drive southwest)
• Mountainside (short drive west)
• Berkeley Heights (short drive west)
• Summit (short drive west, Overlook Medical Center)
• Scotch Plains (short drive southwest)

We also serve the bordering Essex County towns of Irvington, Maplewood, and Millburn when the Union dispatch radius is the shorter drive. If you are not sure whether we come to your street, call (908) 912-6342 and ask Sofia directly.

Payment and insurance for Union families

24 Hour Home Care NJ is a private-pay and private-insurance agency. We bill in several ways:

• Private pay. Flat hourly or daily rate, no contracts, no minimums, no surcharges for evenings, weekends, or holidays. We invoice weekly.
• Long-term-care insurance (LTCI). We direct-bill most major LTCI carriers for Union families with active policies, including John Hancock, Genworth, Mutual of Omaha, Transamerica, New York Life, MassMutual, and Northwestern. We also help you file the initial claim and elimination-period paperwork.
• VA Aid & Attendance. For wartime veterans and surviving spouses who qualify, Aid & Attendance can cover a meaningful portion of monthly in-home care. We can refer you to a Veterans Service Officer for the application and begin care immediately.
• Workers’ compensation. If your parent’s need for home care stems from a work-related injury or occupational disease, we accept direct billing from workers’ compensation carriers.
• Private insurance (home-care riders). Some private disability and personal-injury policies pay for in-home care. We will read your policy with you.

According to 24 Hour Home Care NJ, we do not accept Medicaid or Medicare for home care. Medicaid home-care programs in New Jersey (including MLTSS and the Personal Care Assistant program) operate on a waitlist and reimbursement structure that does not fit a private-duty agency with RN-supervised shifts. If Medicaid is your only option, we will refer you to a Medicaid-waiver agency that can help; we would rather be honest about this than keep you on a phone call that cannot lead to care from us.

Frequently asked questions

What does 24-hour home care in Union, NJ typically cost?

Pricing in Union, NJ depends on the service level (hourly companion, overnight, live-in, or 24-hour rotating) and whether long-term-care insurance is covering some of it. According to 24 Hour Home Care NJ, we quote a flat rate on the phone after a 15-minute intake, with no evening, weekend, or holiday surcharges. There are no contracts and no minimum-hour requirements. Call Sofia Elmer, RN at (908) 912-6342 for the current Union rate.

How fast can you start care at my parent’s home in Union?

For most Union, NJ cases, we start within 24 to 48 hours of your first phone call. Sofia Elmer, RN completes the free in-home assessment, we match a caregiver to the written care plan, and the aide is in the house, usually the next day. Hospital-discharge cases from Trinitas, Overlook, or Mountainside can often be started the same day your parent comes home, with coordination from the discharge planner.

Which hospitals near Union do you coordinate discharges from?

Three hospital systems serve Union, NJ families. Trinitas Regional Medical Center at 225 Williamson Street in Elizabeth (RWJBarnabas Health) is the closest. Overlook Medical Center at 99 Beauvoir Avenue in Summit (Atlantic Health System) and Hackensack Meridian Health Mountainside Medical Center in Montclair are also within an easy drive. Sofia, RN reads the discharge paperwork and writes the home care plan directly off it, so nothing falls between the hospital and your living room.

How do you match the caregiver to our family?

Sofia Elmer, RN handles every match personally. She looks at the written care plan from the in-home assessment, your parent’s diagnoses and routines, language preference, personality fit, and the specific skills the case needs (dementia experience, Hoyer lift, overnight awake, male versus female caregiver). We do not run through a stack of resumes; we send one carefully chosen Home Health Aide and introduce them on day one in your home.

What if the first caregiver is not the right fit?

We fix it. According to 24 Hour Home Care NJ, if the first aide is not a good match for your parent, personality, routine, or specific needs, call Sofia Elmer, RN and we replace the caregiver, usually within 24 to 48 hours. We do not charge a change fee and we do not make you justify the decision. Union families know their own homes best, and we trust that judgment.

Do you serve the Hunterdon County Union Township too?

Yes. New Jersey has two municipalities named Union Township, and we cover both. The one on this page is in Union County, bordering Elizabeth and Springfield. There is a smaller Union Township in Hunterdon County near Pattenburg and Jutland that we also serve, from a different dispatch radius. Call (908) 912-6342 and tell Sofia which Union Township you need, and she will route the case to the correct office.

Can an aide drive my parent to appointments at Overlook or Trinitas?

Yes, within reason. Our Home Health Aides can drive your parent to and from medical appointments in Union County and the immediately bordering towns, in your parent’s own vehicle. Appointments at Trinitas in Elizabeth, Overlook in Summit, and specialist offices in Westfield, Springfield, and Mountainside are routine. For longer-distance appointments or specialized transport (ambulette, stretcher), we help arrange a medical-transport partner.

Start home care in Union, NJ this week

Call Sofia Elmer, RN directly for a free in-home assessment in Union Township. We cover 07083 and every bordering Union County and Essex County town. No contracts, no minimum hours, no surcharges. Private pay, long-term-care insurance, VA Aid & Attendance, and workers’ compensation accepted.

Call Sofia Elmer, RN → (908) 912-6342

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