24-Hour and Overnight In-Home Senior Care in Highland Park and University Park

If you need dependable 24-hour or overnight senior care in Highland Park, University Park or anywhere in the Park Cities, Senior Care of North Texas provides both, with awake caregivers who are our own employees, backup when someone calls out, a small rotating team with written handoffs and one published rate of $30–34 an hour, overnights included. We cannot rank every agency for you, but you should hold any of them to those same points, us included.

We are a locally owned, Texas-licensed non-medical Personal Assistance Services agency, License #020448, serving Dallas-Fort Worth and North Texas. We are rated 4.9 stars across 44 Google reviews. Those facts help you check us out; the practical details below help you decide whether we fit your parent’s nights.

Our hourly rate is $30–34, with the same rate for days, evenings, weekends and overnights. There is no overnight premium or levels-of-care pricing, so the rate does not rise as needs grow. Major holidays are billed at time and a half.

We match caregivers to your parent, and your family meets them before care begins. Our co-owner and President, Ryan Berry, personally handles the free in-home assessment. We start by understanding what happens after the house gets quiet, and what would let everyone rest.

When do nights need cover, and when is overnight care enough?

A parent may manage reasonably well while you are visiting and still need help after bedtime. Look at the actual tasks between evening and morning, rather than assuming daytime independence carries through the night.

Nighttime coverage deserves consideration when:

• Your parent needs help getting out of bed, using the bathroom or changing clothes.
• You keep returning to the house because your parent cannot settle safely.
• Memory changes lead to confusion about where the bathroom is or whether it is time to leave.
• Meals, drinks or medication reminders are being missed when family goes home.
• You are handling nights and can no longer reliably cover the following day.

An awake overnight caregiver provides help from evening to morning. That can make sense when daytime needs are already covered by family or another dependable arrangement. The caregiver can assist with bedtime, nighttime toileting, getting up safely and the morning routine.

Full 24-hour care at home fits a different gap: your parent needs assistance throughout both day and night, and leaving uncovered hours would leave essential needs unmet. It includes personal care, meals, hydration, companionship, household tasks and overnight presence across rotating shifts.

The deciding question is simple: What happens during the hours without a caregiver? If your parent needs help then, identify who will provide it. Overnight care should close a real gap; it should not leave you quietly responsible for every remaining hour.

Respite care can also give a family caregiver relief. At the assessment, we discuss whether the immediate need is overnight coverage, continuous care or a schedule built around the hours your family can realistically handle.

How do rotating awake shifts work?

We do not offer live-in care. Our overnight caregivers are awake and working throughout their shifts. With round-the-clock care, a small team rotates so the person helping your parent at night has a defined working shift.

The arrangement commonly uses two 12-hour shifts or sometimes three 8-hour shifts. The team usually consists of two or three caregivers across the week. We discuss the actual schedule with your family so you understand who is coming and where each shift begins and ends.

At every shift change, caregivers give both a spoken and written handoff. A written log stays in the house. The incoming caregiver needs to know what happened, what your parent needed and what remains to be done.

For example, a useful handoff identifies whether your parent needed help getting up, declined a meal, requested fresh linens or had a change the family should know about. That keeps the next caregiver from starting without context.

Our caregivers are background-checked, insured, supervised employees, not contractors. When a caregiver is sick, we send another who already has the care plan. Your family can request a different caregiver at any time.

During the night, care can include toileting, dressing, safe help getting up, drinks, companionship, medication reminders, laundry and changing linens. For a closer look at what an awake overnight caregiver actually does, consider the whole shift, including evening preparation and morning handoff, not just whether someone is present while your parent sleeps.

Park Cities homes after dark

The address tells us where to arrive. The layout tells us how to plan the night.

In Highland Park, many houses date from the 1920s and 1930s. Even rebuilt homes often have bedrooms upstairs. An overnight plan needs to account for the route between the bedroom and bathroom, stair use, lighting and where assistance is needed before your parent starts moving.

If the primary bedroom is upstairs, we discuss how bedtime and morning routines work. If your parent gets up repeatedly, we need to understand that pattern before the first shift. Our guide to stairs and older homes in Lakewood and Highland Park provides additional context, but the assessment focuses on your parent’s own rooms and routines.

University Park presents another mix. An original bungalow may have a compact layout, narrow bathroom and step at the back door. A large rebuild may place the primary bedroom upstairs. A single-story home still needs careful planning if getting through a bathroom doorway or stepping outside requires help.

Along Turtle Creek, condominiums and high-rises bring access details into the care plan. We need to know how a caregiver enters after hours, what the concierge needs, where parking is permitted and how the elevator route works. Those arrangements matter at shift change as much as at the first visit.

Our in-home senior care in Highland Park and in-home senior care in University Park begin with those household specifics. A plan near Lakeside Park may need to address upstairs bedrooms; one near Caruth Park may center on a narrow bathroom. We assess the home in front of us.

When you live a few streets away: the morning report

Many Park Cities families have an adult son or daughter nearby who handles doctors, bills and decisions. Being close makes it easier to visit. It can also make you the default person for every nighttime interruption.

We plan for our caregiver to report daily to that family member. The morning update should help you understand what your parent needed overnight and what requires your attention today.

Useful reporting covers concrete observations: help with bathroom trips, food and drinks offered, medication reminders, personal care completed and changes in routine. If your parent was unsettled, the report should describe what happened and what assistance was provided.

The caregiver tells you what she saw, such as “needed more help getting up than last week,” and leaves the why to your parent’s doctor.

At the assessment, tell us who should receive updates and who handles decisions. That matters when siblings share responsibilities or one person manages medical appointments while another handles the home.

For families caring for a parent who lives a few streets away, dependable coverage means you can remain involved without being the only person available after bedtime. We want the morning report to give you a clear picture, not another puzzle to solve before work.

Coming home from Presbyterian, UT Southwestern or Baylor

Discharge planning needs to include the first evening at home. A daytime arrival does not answer who will help with clothing, dinner, bathroom trips and getting into bed.

We help families returning from Texas Health Presbyterian Dallas on Walnut Hill Lane, UT Southwestern’s Clements University Hospital on Harry Hines and Baylor University Medical Center on Gaston Avenue. Ryan is known to hospital discharge planners and social workers across North Texas, and he can conduct the free assessment at the hospital bedside.

Before discharge, we work through practical questions:

• What personal care will your parent need upon arrival?
• Is the bedroom upstairs, and how will the evening routine work?
• Who will provide meals, hydration and medication reminders?
• Which tasks belong to home health, hospice or another medical provider?
• When should the caregiver arrive, and who will provide access?

Our post-hospital recovery care is non-medical. We can help with bathing, dressing, toileting, meals, household tasks and companionship. We do not provide nursing, injections, wound care or operation of medical equipment. Medication help means reminders, not administration.

We work alongside home health and hospice teams. If discharge instructions include clinical tasks, identify the qualified provider responsible before your parent comes home.

When family cannot remain at the bedside, we also provide hospital and facility sitters. A sitter offers non-medical presence and companionship while hospital staff remain responsible for medical care.

Call (214) 550-6533, answered 24/7, to discuss the discharge and the first night home. Assessments are usually available the same day or next morning, and care can often start within 24 hours.

Dementia and sundowning at night

For a parent with dementia, a nighttime plan needs more detail than “keep an eye on Mom.” Tell us what your family observes in the evening: walking through rooms, looking for someone, asking to go home or becoming unsure of familiar surroundings.

We provide non-medical memory care at home. An awake caregiver can offer companionship, reminders, help with toileting and dressing, meals, drinks and assistance getting up. The caregiver can remain present when your parent is unsettled and document what occurs.

If your family describes the pattern as sundowning, we still ask about the specific behavior. Does confusion begin during the evening routine? Does your parent repeatedly get out of bed? Are they looking for a bathroom they cannot locate? Those details shape the care plan.

Tell us which familiar routines your parent accepts, how they prefer to be approached and what tends to upset them. A small team and clear handoffs allow caregivers to carry that information from one shift to the next.

We do not diagnose dementia, prescribe treatment or change medications. New or worsening symptoms belong with the appropriate medical professional. Our role is daily assistance, attentive presence and reporting observations.

Choose overnight-only care if the daytime plan already meets your parent’s needs. Consider round-the-clock coverage when confusion and personal care needs also leave daytime gaps. The schedule should reflect the full pattern your family is managing.

What do overnight and 24-hour care cost?

Our published hourly range is $30–34, with one flat hourly rate for your care arrangement. Days, evenings, weekends and overnights use the same rate. There is no overnight premium, and we do not increase the rate through levels-of-care pricing as needs grow.

These estimates use the hourly range and the scheduled hours shown:

A 12-hour overnight is an estimated $360–408. A full 24-hour day is an estimated $720–816. The table excludes major-holiday adjustments; major holidays are billed at time and a half.

Our minimum visit is four hours, and there are no long-term contracts. A couples discount is available when one caregiver helps two people in the same home.

When comparing proposals, use the same hours and tasks for each agency. A shorter overnight may leave your family responsible for bedtime or the early morning. A lower-looking estimate is useful only if it covers the help your parent actually needs.

Ask for the hourly rate, scheduled hours and holiday treatment in writing. Also ask whether growing personal care needs change the rate. With us, the hourly rate does not rise as needs grow, although adding hours increases the total cost.

What should you ask any agency about night care?

A dependable night arrangement needs clear answers before the first shift. Use this checklist with us or any agency you are considering:

• Will the caregiver stay awake throughout the shift? Ask directly whether overnight coverage includes any sleeping period.
• Who employs and supervises the caregiver? Confirm background checks, insurance, employee status and the person responsible for supervision.
• What happens if the scheduled caregiver is sick? Ask who arranges the replacement and how that person receives the care plan.
• How large is the regular team? Ask how the agency maintains familiarity with your parent’s routines across the week.
• Can we meet caregivers before care begins? Also ask what happens if the match does not work.
• What happens at shift change? Look for spoken and written handoffs and a record the family can review.
• What is the full price for our schedule? Ask about overnight premiums, weekends, holidays, minimum visits and changes as needs grow.
• Which tasks are outside your scope? Confirm the distinction between personal assistance and medical care.

Our answers are concrete: awake shifts; background-checked, insured, supervised employees; replacement coverage with the care plan; a small rotating team; introductions before care begins; and spoken and written handoffs with a log in the home.

You can request a different caregiver at any time. We make the matches and arrange the introductions, so your family can evaluate the fit before care starts.

Dependability also requires an honest boundary. We provide personal assistance and work alongside clinical teams. We do not promise nursing or medication administration as part of an overnight shift.

How to start care this week

You do not need a finished care plan before calling. Start with what happened last night and what your parent will need tonight.

Call (214) 550-6533, answered 24/7. You can also send a request for a call back. We will discuss the address, current setting, immediate needs and hours your family is trying to cover.

The setup follows a practical sequence:

• Describe the uncovered hours. Tell us when family leaves, when your parent needs help and whether anyone is currently staying overnight.
• Meet with Ryan. He conducts the free assessment himself, usually the same day or next morning, at home or at the hospital bedside.
• Walk through the tasks and house. We discuss personal care, stairs, bathroom access, meals, reminders, building entry and family updates.
• Review the schedule and price. Establish overnight-only or round-the-clock coverage, shift boundaries and the applicable hourly rate.
• Meet the matched caregivers. Your family meets them before care begins and can request a different caregiver.
• Begin with a shared plan. Care can often start within 24 hours, with written instructions and handoffs supporting the schedule.

Tell us what matters to your parent as well as what needs doing. Preferences about bedtime, bathing, meals and privacy belong in the plan.

If your family is exhausted, we can begin the conversation with the immediate gap and work through the details together. You do not have to solve every future decision to arrange dependable help now.

For overnight help or round-the-clock care in Highland Park, University Park and the Park Cities, call (214) 550-6533, answered 24/7, or request a free in-home assessment. We will help you turn tonight’s worries into a plan.

This article is general information, not medical advice.