What We Do
At Assisting Hands Home Care, we understand selecting quality home care for your loved one can be a daunting task. Our trained, dependable caregivers and personal assistants can help overcome those challenges and make home an even better place to be.
We include everything from companionship, meal preparation, medication reminders, transportation for shopping, appointments, and errands, as well as light housekeeping, laundry, and personal care assistance with bathing and dressing.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
Learn More About Our Senior Home Care Services
We offer a wide selection of home care services in Lexington, and the surrounding area in Northwest Boston that are all intended to help you achieve the quality of life you deserve. Click below to find out more about the individual home care services we offer.
Home Care Services Near You
Our home care services are available in Lexington, and the surrounding communities North and West of Boston – Click on one of our service areas below to learn more.
Don’t see your town? Don’t worry, just contact us and we’d be happy to discuss your options!
Who We Are
At Assisting Hands, our mission is to offer our clients the very finest personalized non-medical home care, allowing them to live safely and comfortably in their own homes. Sometimes life’s natural events – aging, illness, or disabilities – can make living independently at home more difficult. That’s where Assisting Hands – Boston Northwest comes in. We provide exceptional home care that enriches the lives of our clients and provides peace of mind for their families.
Dave Tasto, President Owner
Meet our owner, Dave Tasto, Author of Thriving at Home – A Handbook for Preventing Hospital Stays. After witnessing the value of high-quality, individualized care provided by those caring for his grandmother, Dave was inspired to switch careers and launch Assisting Hands – Boston Northwest. He has channeled his experience as an engineer in program and product management toward directly affecting people’s lives by offering others the same level of care his grandmother had received.
Learn to Thrive
In his book Thriving at Home Dave shares useful information for family caregivers on how to keep home as safe as possible, specific actions you can take to manage aspects of your health at home, common reasons why elderly adults use the emergency room, and how to reduce those incidents. Dave’s book also covers when going to the hospital is essential and how to prepare for a hospital stay in the COVID-19 era.
Why Choose Assisting Hands?
In addition to providing award-winning support for folks with cognitive conditions like Alzheimer’s/dementia or Parkinson’s Disease, we are experts at preventing hospital stays.
Preventing hospitalizations, and keeping individuals out of the hospital is critically important. Particularly during the pandemic, and also now – no one wants to spend time in the hospital. A key metric that measures our performance is our Hospital Readmission Rate – which we are quite proud of, and we have been recognized for having one of the lowest readmission rates in the country for non-medical home care – in the low single digits.
On average, nearly one in 5 Medicare patients goes back to the hospital within just 30 days after a previous discharge. Meaning that our likelihood of going back to the hospital is significantly increased after having just come out of the hospital. We probably all know friends or elderly relatives who have been in the hospital recently…extra support and attention are needed right after a discharge to ensure a return trip can be avoided.
At Assisting Hands, we employ our unique Thriving at Home approach to preventing hospital stays. This ensures our clients get help when needed, but our philosophy is to maintain our client’s independence. If we can help our clients only where they need the help and encourage them to do as much as they can, then they will continue to do much more on their own. Our strong communications and extensive Caregiver training also bolster the Thriving at Home approach, which is all captured in a book I wrote during the pandemic called: Thriving at Home – A Handbook for Preventing Hospital Stays.
Not a Senior? Not a Problem!
Our home caregiver services are not just for elders. We also provide care for younger clients in need of assistance. These young clients may all have a different diagnosis. For example, a 25-year-old dealing with cancer, a 28-year-old who fell off his mountain bike right out of college and is now a quadriplegic, a 34-year-old who had a massive stroke during surgery and is now bed-bound with high acuity needs, and a number of 50-year-olds ranging from massive stokes to cancer.
Happy Clients
See what other clients and their families have said about the home care services they’ve received from Assisting Hands – Boston NW. We are proud of the many reviews and positive feedback we have received over the years!
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Welcome Benji Tracy to Assisting Hands – Boston NW!
We are delighted to announce that Benji Tracy has joined our team has Community Liaison.
JF and CS Memory Café, In-person and Virtual | July 2025
Join us for our Memory Café on Friday, July 11, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., with special guest Audrey Albert King of Lesley University. RSVP today!
