MF Family Home Care provides meal preparation for seniors on Cape Cod — real food, cooked in your parent’s own kitchen, to their own taste. It sounds like a small service. It is frequently the one that reverses a decline.
A delivered meal that goes into the refrigerator and comes out three days later untouched has solved nothing. Somebody has to be there, notice, and adjust — different food, smaller portions, a different hour, company at the table.
Not delivered trays. The food they have eaten for fifty years, made the way they make it.
A caregiver who cooks a lunch usually leaves a dinner in the refrigerator with instructions on the lid.
With your parent when they are up to it, and on their behalf when they are not.
Company at the table is frequently what makes the meal get eaten at all.
A caregiver who cooks weekly notices the loss of appetite months before the family does.
— diabetic, low-sodium, soft foods, or whatever the physician has asked for.
One call, a free visit at home, and a written plan you can change. Most families begin smaller than they expect.
Tell us what is happening and what a normal day looks like now compared with six months ago.
We come to the house and look at the practical things — the stairs, the bathroom, the kitchen, the hours when nobody is around.
Most families begin smaller than they expect and adjust within the first month. No long-term contract is required to begin.
The questions families ask us most, answered plainly.
