Personal Care
- Bathing, dressing, grooming and hygiene
- Toileting and incontinence care
- Eating and hydration
- Safety supervision
- Transferring and positioning
- Gentle exercise for strength, balance, and walking
Non-medical home care · Valparaiso, Indiana
Compassionate care.
Peace of mind.
We provide affordable, reliable care options so Seniors can live safely and comfortably at home.
Proudly serving Seniors & families
01 We can help
Home is where people
do best.
Senior citizens thrive by staying involved in their own lives, and one of the best ways to ensure that is by enabling them to live in their homes for as long as is safely possible. But Seniors and their families shouldn’t have to handle the difficult challenges they face alone.
Assisting Seniors can help with illness or injury recovery, chronic medical conditions, changing life circumstances, and the building stresses of aging — brightening daily life through healthy cognitive, physical, and social interaction that lets Seniors hold on to their familiar routines and unique lifestyle.
02 How we help
Three kinds of help,
shaped to one person.
Most families start with a few hours a week. Care grows, shifts, or scales back as life does.
Companionship
- Daily routines and reminders
- Medication reminders
- Meal planning and preparation
- Appointments and transportation
- Outings and wellness activities
- Conversation, reading, and games
- Respite for family caregivers
Household Help
- Dishes, dusting, vacuuming, and trash
- Laundry and linens
- Sorting mail and assisting with bills
- Grocery shopping and errands
- Prescription pickup
- Pet care and houseplant care
Home care — not home health
We provide non-medical companionship, personal care, and household help in the home. We don’t provide skilled nursing, therapy, or medical treatment, but we work alongside home-health teams and are happy to help coordinate other resources when a need is outside our scope.
03 Our approach
Care designed
around you.
Every family’s situation is unique and often in constant motion. We can help Seniors who need only minimal services as well as those with higher-level chronic conditions such as Alzheimer’s or dementia.
When we begin designing a care plan together, we’ll discuss your needs and expectations, then fuse your ideas with our experience into a plan everyone involved approves — one that grows and changes with your wishes, so the dignity, privacy, and comfort of all are preserved.
- Matched, not assigned Kelly knows the caregivers and she knows the families. Personality, routine, and situation all factor into who walks through the door.
- A guest in the home Care should feel warm, not clinical. Familiar routines, familiar objects, and a home that stays the client’s own.
- Safety, quietly Bathroom, kitchen, bedroom, stairs. Experienced eyes catch the risks a family living with them every day may not.
- Families, kept in the loop Regular updates by phone and text — especially valuable when adult children live out of town.
04 Who you’ll talk to
You call the number,
Kelly answers.
There is no call center and no intake queue. When you reach out to Assisting Seniors, you reach Kelly Staubus — the owner — and she stays involved from the first conversation onward.
Kelly has been with Assisting Seniors for roughly fourteen years. She began as a caregiver, working with client after client in their own homes, moved into management, and then partnered with the previous owners to take over the company. She handles the intake meetings, the scheduling, and the matching of caregivers to clients herself, and she makes a point of being reachable outside of business hours — because that is when families usually need to talk.
Her own experience caring for loved ones is what brought her to this work in the first place.
Kelly Staubus
President & Senior Care Consultant
“Our goal is to exceed your expectations for customized care and nurturing solutions.”
05 Where we serve
Northwest Indiana,
the 219.
Assisting Seniors is based in Valparaiso and serves Porter County and the surrounding Northwest Indiana communities. Most of our care happens in clients’ own homes; we also provide one-to-one support inside assisted living and nursing facilities when a family wants an extra set of hands.
- Valparaiso
- Portage
- Chesterton
- Crown Point
- Beverly Shores
- Porter County
Nearby and not on the list? Call — we cover a wide radius around Valparaiso and will tell you honestly if we can help.
Rooted in this community
Dunes Hospice
We work alongside the Dunes Hospice team, providing the non-medical companionship, personal care, and household help that sits beside hospice care when a family chooses to keep their loved one at home.
Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce
A member business, and part of the network of local organizations Northwest Indiana families rely on.
06 Questions families ask
Straight answers,
no pressure.
What is non-medical home care?
Non-medical home care provides companionship, personal care assistance, meal preparation, light housekeeping, medication reminders, and transportation — support that helps Seniors live safely and comfortably at home without clinical or medical services.
How is this different from home health?
Home health involves skilled nursing, therapy, or medically supervised treatment prescribed by a physician. Assisting Seniors provides non-medical care only — we do not provide injections, wound care, skilled nursing, or medication administration. We do work alongside home-health teams and can help coordinate other resources when a need falls outside our scope.
How much care do we have to commit to?
As much or as little as the situation calls for. Some families need a few hours a week of companionship and errands; others need daily personal care, or around-the-clock support during a final stage of life. Care plans are built to grow and change with your wishes.
Can you help while a family caregiver takes a break?
Yes. Respite care is one of the most common reasons families call. Whether it is a standing afternoon each week or a few days while you travel, we can stay with your loved one so you can take care of your own life and health.
Do you provide care in assisted living or nursing facilities?
Yes. When a facility is short-staffed or a family wants dedicated one-to-one attention, we provide supplemental care alongside facility staff.
Can you help while a loved one is on hospice?
Yes. Hospice covers the medical side of end-of-life care; we cover the hours in between — companionship, personal care, meals, and the household running — so a family can keep their loved one at home. We work alongside hospice teams, including Dunes Hospice, and coordinate rather than duplicate what they provide.
What about long-term care insurance?
Some of our clients have long-term care policies, and Kelly will assist with the insurance processing and paperwork. Bring your policy to the introductory call and she will walk through it with you.
Can you help with a hospital or rehab discharge?
Yes. We work with discharge planners, social workers, and hospital case managers to coordinate home care support when a Senior is transitioning from a hospital or rehabilitation facility back home.
How do we get started?
Call Kelly directly at (219) 265-1581 or email assistingseniorsnwi@gmail.com. The first conversation is a complimentary introductory call — no cost, no commitment.
07 Contact
Contact Kelly Staubus for a complimentary introductory call.
Here for your family, when you need us most. Call or email and Kelly will get back to you personally.
Serving Valparaiso, Portage, Chesterton, Crown Point, Beverly Shores, and the surrounding Northwest Indiana communities.
What the first call looks like
- You tell us what’s happening What’s changed, what worries you, and what your loved one wants. No forms to fill out first.
- We tell you honestly what we can do What non-medical home care covers, what it doesn’t, and whether another resource would serve you better.
- We build the plan together Your ideas and our experience, shaped into a plan everyone involved approves — and revisited as needs change.