End-of-life care and hospice support at home
Hospice teams visit. They are rarely there all day or all night. A caregiver fills the hours between visits, so the person you love is comfortable and the family can simply be with them.
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Kalvri for families, at a glance
- Matching
- Free. Every caregiver who fits your household, ranked, with the reason for each one.
- Conversations
- Your first ones are free. A Kalvri membership opens the rest: $79.99 a year with a 3-day free trial, or $9.99 a week.
- Your caregiver's pay
- Agreed with them and paid to them directly. Kalvri takes no fee and no cut.
- Checks
- Kalvri vets and verifies nobody. Ask for references and look up any licence yourself.
- Where
- An iPhone app, opening city by city in the US.
What a caregiver adds to hospice
- Comfort care: repositioning, mouth care, keeping someone clean and warm.
- Company and quiet presence, day or night.
- Following the hospice team's comfort plan and calling them when something changes.
- Letting family members sleep, eat and step away.
What to look for
Experience with dying, gentleness, and the judgment to know when to call the nurse. Ask how they have supported families before and after a death. Many families also need overnight care in the final weeks.
How Kalvri helps you find them
Kalvri is an iPhone app, not an agency. You say what the care really looks like, and Kalvri ranks every caregiver whose hours, skills, languages, distance and rate fit, with the reason each one was chosen. Each morning it suggests the one who fits best.
- What you require comes first. Everyone who can cover your hours, your budget and the care you described is ranked ahead of anyone who can't, and somebody who has said no to something you need is never suggested.
- Each caregiver arrives with the reason they were chosen, in plain words. What they told Kalvri is labelled as theirs, because Kalvri verifies nothing.
- When you both say yes, a private conversation opens. Ask for references, ask for a time, and decide for yourself.
- You agree the rate with your caregiver and pay them directly. Kalvri takes no fee and no cut.
Suggested by compatibility — not vetted by Kalvri.
Kalvri never handles the money. You arrange that directly.