What it costs
Straight answers about what you will pay.
Here is where our rates start, what moves them, and what never does.
Where the rates start.
Care at home
From $25 an hour
What you pay depends on how much of the week is covered, so the rate comes down as the hours go up. Tell us the days and hours you have in mind and we will give you the figure on the call.
For round-the-clock care
Live-in care
$16 an hour, equivalent
Live-in is billed as a flat daily rate rather than by the hour. The figure above is what it works out at, for comparison. Ring us and we will explain how the day is structured and what it would come to for your household.
Rates current as of August 2026. Families are billed by Guardian Care directly.
What does not change it.
No overtime, ever
Long days and weekend cover are billed at the same rate as any other hour.
Holidays are the only uplift
Nothing else moves the rate. Not evenings, not weekends, not short notice.
No fixed term
Care can be stopped with twenty-four hours notice. Nobody is tied in, and nothing has to be signed for a fixed term.
If there is a long-term care policy, it may cover this.
We take most long-term care policies, and we will help you get the claim started and stay with it from beginning to end. That means the first call to the insurer, the forms, the assessment they ask for, and the chasing afterwards. Policies people forgot they had, or assumed were too complicated to claim on, are one of the most common ways this gets paid for. Bring us the policy and we will tell you what it covers.
Medicare generally does not pay for this kind of care. Florida Medicaid sometimes does, and there are veterans benefits that apply to some households. That is a separate conversation and we help with it.
Tell us the week you need covered.
Hours, days, and what the help is for. We will tell you what it comes to, on the call, without a visit first.