Care at home after a hospital stay or surgery
Discharge often comes faster than anyone expects, and the first two weeks home are when help matters most. Short-term care can carry someone from the hospital bed back to their own routine.
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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 recovery at home often needs
- Help getting in and out of bed, and to the bathroom, safely.
- Keeping to the discharge plan: medication times, exercises and follow-up visits.
- Meals, fluids and rest while strength comes back.
- Rides to follow-up appointments.
- Somebody there at night for the first few days.
Before discharge
- Ask the hospital team what help is needed and for how long.
- Ask whether any skilled care — wound care, injections, therapy — is being arranged through a home health agency.
- Plan the first night home before the day of discharge.
Care that ends
On Kalvri you can ask for care that runs for a set number of days — two weeks after surgery, say — rather than an open-ended arrangement. The caregivers you meet are free for those dates.
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.