MF Family Home Care provides home care in Falmouth, MA for older adults who intend to stay in their own home — in Falmouth Village, East Falmouth, West Falmouth, North Falmouth, Teaticket and Woods Hole. Owned and run by a Certified Nurse Aide registered with the state.
The ordinary things that have quietly stopped being possible.
Bathing, dressing, grooming, transfers, and moving safely from room to room.
Conversation, errands, appointments, and someone who notices what changed since last week.
Light housekeeping, laundry, grocery shopping, and cooking at home.
For a parent who should not be alone overnight.
For the adult child currently covering everything alone.
Routine, patience, and the same familiar face instead of a rotation of strangers.
The two weeks after a discharge are when readmissions happen. That is the window where help matters most.
Small tasks with outsized consequences.
One call, a free visit at home, and a written plan you can change. Most families begin smaller than they expect.
Expired food, or the same frozen dinner repeating. Eating is usually the first thing to go quietly.
Unopened bills, a disconnected phone, a lapsed policy. Paperwork takes more concentration than families assume.
Monday's sweater on Thursday usually means bathing has become difficult, not that laundry got skipped.
A parent who cannot explain a bruise has often had a fall they decided not to mention, because mentioning it might mean losing the house.
No highway, then no nights, then only two familiar routes.
When the family caregiver is chronically anxious, the arrangement has already stopped working, whatever the parent says.
Every caregiver clears a Massachusetts CORI background check before entering a client’s home, and MF Family Home Care carries insurance covering the work our caregivers do in your home. Ask any agency for both — a household letting someone in unsupervised should not have to wonder. We match caregivers to households deliberately — schedule, temperament, language and the specific help required.
Falmouth has a long-established Portuguese-speaking community, and a parent who reverts to Portuguese as dementia advances does far better with a caregiver who speaks it.
MF Family Home Care is owned by Marlene Plouf, a Certified Nurse Aide registered with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health under CNA54796 — a credential with a number the state can verify.
We provide non-medical home care. We do not perform skilled nursing, we do not operate a hospice program, and we do not bill Medicare.
If your parent needs wound care, IV therapy or a hospice team, you need a licensed home health agency, and we will tell you that on the phone rather than take the case and improvise.
Everything else — the bathing, the meals, the company, the safety, the nights — is our work.
Cape Cod runs above the rest of Massachusetts, and Falmouth is no exception.
Across Massachusetts, in-home care generally runs between $35 and $46 an hour, with a planning average near $38. Companion hours sit at the lower end of that range, hands-on personal care in the middle. Overnight and live-in schedules are quoted differently, because a caregiver who sleeps in the house is not billed like one working an active shift.
Your real figure depends on how many hours, which hours, and how much physical help is needed. We give a number on the phone rather than a brochure.
One call. Tell us what happened and what a normal day looks like now compared with six months ago.
A visit at no cost. We come to the house and look at the stairs, the bathroom, the kitchen, and the hours when nobody is around.
A plan that can change. Most families begin smaller than they expect and adjust within the first month.
No long-term contract is required to begin.
Falmouth has its own hospital. Falmouth Hospital and the Yawkey Emergency Center are in town, and that emergency department is one of the busiest in Massachusetts. For a family here, that changes the shape of a bad night: the ambulance ride is short, and the discharge home can be short too.
Short discharges are easier on everyone except the person organizing them. You can be told at ten in the morning that your father is coming home in the afternoon, and spend the rest of the day trying to find someone to be in the house that night. That is the call we take most often from Falmouth, and it is why we answer the phone at night and on weekends.
Falmouth is also an upper-Cape town, which matters if the family lives off-Cape. You are on the near side of the bridges. An adult child in Boston or Providence can actually get here on a weeknight in winter. In July, with Woods Hole ferry traffic backed up through town, the same drive is a different proposition — and so is getting a caregiver across town on schedule. We build around that instead of pretending the summer does not exist.
We work across Falmouth Village, East Falmouth, West Falmouth, North Falmouth, Teaticket, Hatchville, Waquoit and Woods Hole. They are not interchangeable: a house on a quiet road in Hatchville and a condominium near the harbor need different visits, at different hours.
We serve Falmouth, including Falmouth Village, East Falmouth, West Falmouth, North Falmouth, Teaticket, Hatchville, Waquoit and Woods Hole, along with the neighboring towns: Mashpee, Bourne, Sandwich and Barnstable.
Our office is at 21 College Road, West Yarmouth, MA 02673 — the same side of the bridges as you. We will tell you on the first call which hours we can cover in Falmouth rather than taking the booking and working it out afterwards.
We answer 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
The questions families ask us most, answered plainly.
Usually within a few days. We answer the phone at night and on weekends, because hospital discharges do not wait for Monday morning.
We build the schedule around the household rather than a fixed block. Tell us which hours are hard and we will tell you honestly what we can staff.
Yes. Our caregivers speak English, Portuguese and Spanish.
We accept long-term care insurance, which frequently covers exactly this kind of care. Some veterans and surviving spouses also qualify for VA benefits toward it. We are not a Medicare provider. Bring us the policy and we will go through it with you.
That is the most common call we take. Two hours, one task, the same caregiver every visit works far better than argument. Acceptance comes from familiarity, not persuasion.
We cover the shift. A schedule that only works when one person stays healthy is not a schedule.
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