Whole Person Care Designed for Happiness and Fulfillment
As Mom and Dad age, they may need additional assistance in order to remain in the home and community they love. With customized home care in Glendale and nearby areas designed to provide this support, Happier Home Care is also committed to caring for the whole person – enhancing independence and self-confidence and creating an environment that brings joy, happiness, and fulfillment.
We help our clients with a wide range of personal care and practical tasks, but we also believe that it’s just as important to help older adults maintain their freedom and the connections they have established in their community. For example, a recent client who is a retired firefighter was no longer able to meet with his firefighting friends on his own. After starting to work with Happier Home Care, he is again able to safely meet his friends for breakfast several times per week.
We Focus on Living
Never a one-size-fits-all approach to care, we work to build a personal relationship with each of our clients in order to discover their passions and interests, incorporating these elements into the plan of care.
Additionally, families find peace of mind in knowing that over 90% of our care team is vaccinated against COVID-19, and each member of our team is thoroughly screened, insured, and registered with the California Home Care Services Bureau.
We love saying “yes” to doing what makes a client happy, even if it requires a bit more effort and creativity. Whether it’s accompanying a client to the theatre, reminiscing while listening to a favorite jazz record, encouragement to restart an old hobby, or simply taking a drive together to rekindle an old memory, we go above and beyond just helping with the activities of daily living. We focus on helping clients to live a life that has meaning and enjoyment within the limitations they may be experiencing.
Our home care services include:
Companionship and Personal Care
Service Overview: In-Home Companionship & Personal Care
What it is: A non-medical home care service providing essential daily assistance and emotional support to older adults. It focuses on maintaining physical health, personal hygiene, and social engagement.
Who it is for: Seniors, elderly individuals, and adults with limited mobility living in Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena, and surrounding Los Angeles communities who want to safely age in place independently.
Core Capabilities: Personal hygiene care (bathing/dressing), medication reminders, local transportation to medical appointments, cognitive engagement (games/crafts), and community outing accompaniment.
Our highly-trained and friendly care team is skilled in helping older adults maintain independence. We can provide:
- Bathing, dressing, and personal care needs
- Medication reminders
- Continence care
- Transportation and accompaniment to medical appointments
- Enjoyable conversations and reminiscing to reduce loneliness and isolation
- Fun and engaging activities, such as card and board games, crafts, and puzzles
- Accompaniment to outings, shopping, religious services, visiting friends and family
- Encouragement with physician-approved exercises
- And much more
Frequently Asked Questions About Personal Home Care
Companionship care focuses primarily on social interaction, emotional support, light housekeeping, and accompaniment to activities. Personal care includes all of those elements but adds hands-on physical assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs), such as bathing, dressing, grooming, and mobility support.
In a non-medical home care setting, caregivers provide verbal or visual reminders for individuals to take their pre-sorted medications at the correct times. Caregivers can also help read labels and open pill bottles, but they do not manage dosages or administer injections.
Yes, general companion care frequently includes transportation support. Caregivers can accompany individuals to medical appointments, grocery shopping, religious services, or social outings, helping them stay connected to their local community safely.
Meal Preparation and Housekeeping
Service Overview: Meal Preparation & Light Housekeeping
What it is: A supportive residential care service designed to maintain a clean, safe, and nutritionally balanced home environment for seniors without requiring heavy medical intervention.
Who it is for: Elderly individuals and recovering adults in Burbank, North Hollywood, Toluca Lake, and nearby areas who experience fatigue, low mobility, or cognitive changes that make cooking and cleaning difficult.
Core Capabilities: Nutritional meal planning, dietary restriction management, grocery shopping assistance, light cleaning (dusting, vacuuming, laundry, linen changes), and home safety assessments.
Helping older adults keep their home environment orderly, neat, and clean helps provide peace of mind. We can help with:
- Accompaniment and assistance with grocery shopping
- Planning and preparing nutritious meals and snacks and adhering to any dietary restrictions
- Light housekeeping
- Laundry and linen changes
- Vacuuming and dusting
- Home safety assessment
- And much more
Frequently Asked Questions About Home Upkeep Support
Light housekeeping generally covers routine daily tasks that maintain a clean and sanitary living space. This includes dusting, vacuuming, sweeping, washing dishes, emptying trash, wiping down countertops, doing laundry, and changing bed linens.
Caregivers can plan and cook meals tailored to standard dietary guidelines provided by a family or physician. This includes preparing nutritious options that accommodate low-sodium diets, diabetic-friendly meals, gluten-free preferences, or modified food textures.
No, standard home care housekeeping focuses strictly on light maintenance to keep the environment safe and tidy. It does not include heavy tasks like moving large furniture, professional carpet cleaning, washing outdoor windows, or performing home repairs.
Specialized Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care
Service Overview: Specialized Memory Care (Alzheimer’s & Dementia)
What it is: Structured, non-medical cognitive support and safety oversight tailored specifically to individuals experiencing progressive memory loss, confusion, and cognitive decline.
Who it is for: Individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia, or other memory conditions living in Burbank, Studio City, Hollywood, and the greater Los Angeles area, providing essential relief for family caregivers.
Core Capabilities: Behavioral trigger management, daily routine stabilization, wandering prevention, memory-stimulating exercises, and specialized respite support.
A diagnosis of Alzheimer’s or dementia brings about a number of challenges for family caregivers. Our team is specially trained to help you meet these challenges while ensuring the older adult maintains purpose, safety, and dignity. We can help with:
- Establishing daily routines and schedules
- Memory care activities
- Reading favorite books, watching favorite shows, and looking at photo albums
- Listening to music
- Encouraging regular exercise
- Preventing wandering
- Maintaining a safe home environment
- Respite care and support for family caregivers
- And much more
Frequently Asked Questions About Dementia Home Care
Aging in a familiar home environment reduces confusion, anxiety, and agitation for individuals with memory loss. Familiar surroundings, paired with consistent daily routines and personalized attention, help maintain a sense of security and dignity.
Caregivers reduce wandering risks by keeping the individual engaged in structured activities, maintaining predictable daily schedules, identifying personal environmental triggers, and providing continuous visual supervision within a safe home environment.
Activities generally include memory-stimulating games, reading familiar books, looking through family photo albums, listening to familiar music, gentle exercises, and conversational reminiscing designed to trigger positive memories.
Respite Care
Service Overview: In-Home Respite Care Services
What it is: Short-term, temporary relief care designed to step in for primary family caregivers, ensuring their loved one continues to receive professional care while the family rests.
Who it is for: Family members in Burbank, Sun Valley, Glendale, and Pasadena who are experiencing caregiver burnout or need time away for work, health, or personal travel.
Core Capabilities: Flexible scheduling (hourly, overnight, or multi-day), continuity of daily care routines, emotional companionship, and comprehensive physical safety support.
Family caregivers are at their best when they have time to care for themselves. Our respite care services help family caregivers:
- Maintain social connections
- Make time to pursue hobbies and interests
- Prioritize healthcare and wellness
- Continue to focus on their career
- Prevent burnout
Frequently Asked Questions About Respite Care
Respite care is designed to provide temporary relief to primary family caregivers. It allows family members to take a break to rest, attend to their personal health, manage careers, or travel, preventing physical and mental burnout while ensuring their loved one stays safe.
Respite care is highly customizable depending on the family’s needs. It can range from a few hours a week to give a caregiver a break for errands, to overnight support, or full 24-hour care over a long weekend or vacation.
No. Professional caregivers work closely with families to learn the individual’s existing routine, preferences, and habits. The goal is to keep daily life as consistent and normal as possible during the primary caregiver’s absence.
Whether you need support for a few hours weekly, for a long weekend away, or anything in between, our team provides the peace of mind of knowing that a loved one is well cared for so you can rest and recharge.
Physical Safety and Support
Service Overview: Physical Safety & Mobility Support
What it is: Proactive, environmental, and physical assistance focused on reducing accidents, minimizing fall risks, and ensuring home environments remain navigable for seniors.
Who it is for: Older adults with balance issues, vision impairment, or age-related frailty residing in Burbank, North Hollywood, Pasadena, and surrounding regions.
Core Capabilities: Fall risk assessments, transferring and walking assistance, home hazard identification, and smart home technology/safety alert system monitoring.
We know how important it is for older adults and their loved ones to have peace of mind in knowing that care needs are met and that safety is a priority. We provide:
- Home safety checks
- Fall risk assessment
- Home technology assistance
- And more
Frequently Asked Questions About Senior Fall Prevention
Common home hazards include loose throw rugs, cluttered pathways, poor lighting in hallways or staircases, lack of grab bars in the bathroom, and loose electrical cords. Identifying and correcting these factors significantly drops the risk of injury.
By providing steady physical guidance during transfers (like moving from a bed to a chair) and walking, seniors can move confidently around their homes without the constant fear of falling, keeping them active for longer periods.
A home safety check is a visual assessment of the living spaces to ensure pathways are clear, lighting is sufficient, and high-risk areas like bathrooms or kitchens are properly configured to prevent accidental slips or trips.
Additionally, we are proud of our 90%+ COVID-19 caregiver vaccination rate, ensuring further safety for both clients and our staff.
Post-Surgical Care
Service Overview: In-Home Post-Surgical Recovery Support
What it is: Short-term transitional support that helps individuals safely return home and heal properly following a major surgery, illness, or hospital stay.
Who it is for: Adults and seniors in Burbank, Toluca Lake, Studio City, Glendale, and Los Angeles who are transitioning out of a clinical hospital setting back to their private residence.
Core Capabilities: Prescription pickup, compliance tracking for post-op discharge orders, follow-up appointment transportation, and physical condition/side-effect monitoring.
Recovery at home is safer and more comfortable following a surgical procedure or hospitalization with the help of our skilled care professionals. Services are customized for each person’s particular needs and can include:
- Picking up prescriptions
- Medication reminders to ensure compliance with doctors' orders
- Grocery shopping to ensure there are plenty of healthy foods on hand
- Preparing nutritious meals
- Watching for any changes in condition or medication side effects so they can be addressed immediately
- Encouraging home exercise to help ensure compliance with prescribed physical therapy
- Providing transportation and accompaniment to follow-up appointments
- Light housekeeping and laundry
- Companionship
- And much more
Frequently Asked Questions About Post-Op Recovery at Home
The first few days at home after surgery carry the highest risk for medication errors, falls, and accidental overexertion. In-home transitional care ensures discharge instructions are followed closely, significantly lowering the risk of hospital readmission.
While caregivers cannot prescribe or modify physical therapy programs, they can provide critical encouragement, keep track of scheduled home exercise times, and monitor safety while the individual performs physician-approved movements.
It is important to watch for subtle changes in condition, unexpected medication side effects, changes in mobility levels, compliance with fluid intake, and overall pain management, so that anything unusual can be reported to a doctor immediately.
Payment Information
Your options for paying for home care can be confusing. Our staff are available to help you determine your options. Happier Home Care accepts the following payment options to cover the cost of services:
- Cash
- Check
- Major Credit Cards
- Long-term Care Insurance
To learn more about how our home care in Glendale and nearby communities helps older adults have meaningful, engaged, and happy days, reach out to us at 818-651-6679 to learn more and to schedule a complimentary in-home consultation.