Respite care, because you need a break too
Caring for someone you love, day after day, wears people down in ways they do not notice until it is too late. Respite care is somebody else holding it for a few hours, a weekend or one day a week.
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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.
Ways families use respite care
- One regular afternoon a week that is yours.
- A weekend away, or a family event.
- Nights, so the family caregiver can sleep.
- Cover while you recover from your own illness or surgery.
Make the handover easy
- Write the routine down: meals, medication, bathroom, what calms them.
- Do the first visit together.
- Leave a phone number, and the doctor's and pharmacy's.
- Choose the same person each time if you can.
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.