What We Do
At Assisting Hands Home Care, we understand selecting quality 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, light housekeeping and laundry, to personal care and help 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
Where We Help
Our services are available in communities Northwest of Boston, MA – from a few hours a day or around the clock and we customize our care to meet your schedule.
Who We Are
At Assisting Hands, our mission is to offer our clients the very finest personalized non-medical care, allowing them to live safely and comfortably in their own homes. Sometimes life’s natural events-aging, illness, or disability-can make living independently at home more difficult.
Learn to Thrive
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.
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 older 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.
A critical element of maintaining health and happiness is to ensure that people are doing everything to prevent them from having a hospital stay, or repeated inpatient stays. Our goal is that each of our clients continues Thriving at Home while maintaining independence and happiness where they call home.
Not a Senior? Not a Problem!
Our home caregiver services are not just for seniors. 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.
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