For trusted companion care in North Dallas, from Prestonwood and Bent Tree to the Hillcrest and Preston Road corridor, Senior Care of North Texas is a locally owned, Texas-licensed agency (License #020448) with more clients here than in any other part of Dallas. Our employee caregivers drive to errands and appointments, give medication reminders, check in and report to the family, cook and tidy up, at home or inside a senior community, at one flat $30–34 an hour.
North Dallas has a problem most parts of the city do not: too many choices. There are more home care agencies here than anywhere else in Texas, from national franchises to one-person operations, and nearly all of them say the same things on their websites. This guide does two jobs. First, it gives you a short list of questions that separate one agency from another in a few phone calls. Second, it shows what everyday companion help looks like in the places North Dallas parents actually spend their days: a single-story house on a cul-de-sac, a patio home near Prestonwood, or an apartment in a senior living community off Preston Road or the Tollway.
Which companies provide trusted companion care for seniors in North Dallas, Dallas?
Senior Care of North Texas does, and so do many others. When the list is long, "trusted" has to mean something you can check. Before you let anyone into your parent's home, ask every agency the same five questions and write the answers down. Ask us too.
Five questions that sort North Dallas agencies quickly
| Ask this | Why it matters | Our answer |
|---|---|---|
| Is your rate published, and is it the same at night and on weekends? | A low daytime quote can grow once evening or weekend hours start. | $30–34 an hour, one flat rate at any hour, on our website. Major holidays bill at time and a half, and we name the days before you book. |
| Will the rate go up when my parent needs more help? | Many agencies move clients to a higher "level of care" as needs grow, so the same hours cost more. | No. We never re-tier. If companion care later becomes hands-on personal care, the hourly rate stays the same. |
| Are the caregivers your employees? | An employee is background-checked, insured and supervised by the agency; a contractor may not be. | Yes, all of them: background-checked, insured, supervised, and replaced by us when one is out. |
| Will the same person come every time? | Company only works as a relationship. A rotation of strangers is not companionship. | We match one caregiver to your parent and keep that person on the standing visits. You can ask for a different caregiver at any time. |
| Who comes to the first meeting, and what does it cost? | The first visit shows you who you will be dealing with when something goes wrong. | Ryan Berry, our co-owner, does the free in-home assessment himself, usually the same day or the next morning. No assessment fee, no contract. |
How to read this table: the middle column is the reason each question is worth asking, whichever agency you call. If an agency cannot answer the first two questions with a number and a plain "no," keep calling; a rate you cannot see is a rate that can change.
Two more checks are worth a minute. A Texas home care agency doing non-medical personal assistance needs a state license; ours is Personal Assistance Services License #020448, and it means we do not do nursing, injections or wound care. And ask about the minimum visit. Ours is four hours. That is a full morning or afternoon of help, which is what companion care needs to be useful.
What does companion care look like in a North Dallas house?
Most of the neighborhoods north of LBJ were built in the 1970s and 1980s. The homes are mostly single-story on quiet cul-de-sacs, with patio homes and townhomes around Prestonwood and Bent Tree. Many of the people who bought them new still own them. They are now in their eighties and nineties, and most have no plan to move.
A single-story house takes the stairs out of the picture, so the work tends to be about the day itself rather than getting around the house. Companion care is non-medical help without hands-on contact. Our companion care service covers:
- Company. Conversation, cards, a puzzle, a shared television show, a walk around the cul-de-sac, or lunch at the same table.
- Meals. Cooking food your parent likes, eating together, cleaning up.
- Errands and rides. Groceries, the pharmacy, the post office, appointments, church.
- Medication reminders. Prompts at the right times from the list your family or pharmacy provides.
- A wellness check on every visit. The caregiver confirms all is well and updates your family afterward.
- Light housekeeping. Dishes, laundry, linens, watering plants, clear walkways.
The hardest part of the day in these houses is often the long afternoon. A parent who lives alone on a quiet street can go from lunch to bedtime without speaking to anyone. That stretch is where a standing afternoon visit does the most good: lunch, an errand, an hour of conversation, and dinner left ready in the refrigerator.
If bathing, dressing or help getting up from a chair has entered the picture, that is personal care, a separate service at the same hourly rate, and adding it later never changes the rate.
Can a companion visit a parent inside a North Dallas senior community?
Yes. North Dallas has more senior living communities than any other part of the city, and many of our clients here are residents of independent or assisted living along Preston Road or the Tollway. Their families add one of our caregivers for the hours the community cannot provide one-on-one.
A good community gives your mother a building, meals, staff and an activity calendar. What it usually cannot give her is a person for herself for four hours. Inside a community, our caregiver:
- Walks with her to the dining room and stays for the meal when eating alone at the table has become the problem.
- Gets her to the activities on the calendar that she would skip if she had to go by herself.
- Drives her to outside appointments and back, so she does not wait for the community's shuttle schedule.
- Sits with her in the apartment on the afternoons when the building feels big and she feels new.
Families sometimes feel they are paying twice. The community and a private caregiver do different jobs, and our article on hiring a private caregiver inside assisted living in North Dallas goes through when the extra hours make sense and when they do not, and how the caregiver works with the community's staff.
Which home care agencies provide senior transportation and errands in North Dallas, Dallas?
Senior Care of North Texas provides transportation and errands for seniors across North Dallas, as part of a companion visit or as its own standing visit. The caregiver drives, in your parent's car or in her own, whichever your family prefers, and we go through the details in plain numbers at the assessment.
The errand map here is short and familiar. It runs along Preston Road and Belt Line: the grocery store and the pharmacy at Preston Forest or Preston Royal, the doctor at Medical City's office towers, the Galleria for a walk in air conditioning in August, the bank, the hairdresser, and church on Sunday.
What makes this different from a rideshare is what happens at each end. A rideshare is curb to curb. Our caregiver helps your parent get ready and out the door, steadies the walk to the car, stays through the outing and sees her back inside with the groceries put away. At a medical appointment the caregiver can help with check-in, wait, and, with your parent's permission, come into the room and write down what the doctor says for the family. We take notes; we do not give medical advice. Our guide to getting a parent to appointments safely covers appointment days in more detail.
A four-hour visit leaves room to bundle the week. Picture a common Thursday: the doctor at Medical City in the morning, the pharmacy on the way back, groceries at Preston Forest, and lunch at home. On the days your father would rather stay in, the caregiver runs the list alone. One limit to know: we are not medical transport. If your parent needs a stretcher, oxygen management or a wheelchair van, we will say so and help you find the right service.
Who offers medication reminders and daily check-ins for seniors in North Dallas, Dallas?
Senior Care of North Texas offers medication reminders and standing check-in visits across North Dallas. At each dose time on the visit, the caregiver brings your parent the pill organizer or blister pack that your family or the pharmacy filled, offers water or a snack if the dose needs food, watches that the dose is taken and writes it in a log your family can check. When a bottle or pack runs low, you hear about it before it runs out.
The line is firm because our license is non-medical. Caregivers remind and log. They do not fill organizers, handle loose pills, adjust doses or give medication. If your mother refuses a dose or misses one, it is never forced or hidden in food; it goes in the log and you hear the same day, so you and her doctor can decide what to do. Our article on medication safety at home for seniors covers how families set up the organizer and the list.
In a senior community, the community's own medication process comes first. If staff handle your mother's pills, our caregiver does not step into that. She reports what she notices, such as a skipped meal or a new complaint, to the family and, when the family wants it, to the staff.
What a "daily check-in" means here
Families often ask for someone to stop by every day. Our minimum visit is four hours, so a check-in with us is a standing visit, not a five-minute pop-in. We build it around the time that matters most, usually the morning doses or dinner. In those hours the caregiver confirms your parent is up, has eaten and has taken the doses, does the day's errand or housekeeping, and then sends the family an update in the form you ask for at the assessment.
Because North Dallas is where we have the most clients, we also have the most caregivers living nearby. A 7am start off Hillcrest or a same-day extra shift near the Galleria is routine for us, not a favor.
Which senior care company provides meal preparation and light housekeeping in North Dallas, Dallas?
Senior Care of North Texas provides meal preparation and light housekeeping in North Dallas homes, usually inside the same companion visit. The caregiver cooks in your parent's own kitchen, to your parent's taste, following any written diet guidance from the family or the doctor, then sits down to eat with your parent and cleans up. She can batch-cook labeled meals for the days between visits and clear expired food out of the refrigerator.
Light housekeeping covers the rooms your parent uses: dishes and counters, laundry and fresh bed linens, a bathroom wipe-down, the trash, and floors and walkways kept clear of clutter and cords. It does not include deep cleaning, windows, gutters, yard work or moving heavy furniture. For those, a cleaning company or yard service is the right call.
In a patio home or townhome near Prestonwood or Bent Tree, the house is smaller and the yard is someone else's job, so a visit can go further on the personal side: a hot lunch, a load of laundry folded and put away, the week's groceries, and two dinners portioned and labeled. For a parent in a senior community, the dining room handles the cooking. The caregiver's job there is company at the table, and making sure your mother actually goes.
What does companion care cost in North Dallas?
Our rate is $30–34 an hour, one flat rate for days, evenings, weekends and overnight hours. The minimum visit is four hours. There are no assessment or registration fees, no contract, and no levels-of-care pricing. Major holidays bill at time and a half. If both parents are at home and one caregiver helps both, a couples discount applies.
| Hours per week | One way North Dallas families use it | Estimated monthly cost |
|---|---|---|
| 4 hours | One weekly errand visit along Preston Road: groceries, pharmacy, the hairdresser, lunch | $520–590 |
| 12 hours | Three afternoons a week, at home or with a parent in a senior community | $1,560–1,770 |
| 20 hours | Every weekday, timed around the morning doses or dinner | $2,610–2,960 |
| 40 hours | Eight hours a day, five days a week, while the family works | $5,190–5,880 |
How to read this table: the dollar figures are the monthly estimates from our cost of in-home care in Dallas–Fort Worth page, based on an average month of about 4.3 weeks. The middle column is only an example; the free assessment produces an exact quote in writing.
Why do North Dallas families call Senior Care of North Texas?
We are an independent, locally owned agency. In a part of town crowded with options, these are the facts we would point to:
- Caregivers are our own employees: background-checked, insured and supervised.
- We match one caregiver to your parent rather than pulling from a rotation, and you can ask for a different caregiver at any time.
- Ryan Berry, co-owner, does every free in-home assessment himself, at the house, in the hospital or in the senior community.
- One published flat rate that never rises as needs grow.
- Rated 4.9 stars across 44 Google reviews.
- Licensed by the State of Texas, Personal Assistance Services License #020448.
- Care can often start within 24 hours, and the phone is answered 24/7.
North Dallas, for us, is everything north of Royal Lane and LBJ to the Collin County line: Prestonwood, Bent Tree, the Hillcrest and Preston Road corridor and the streets off Belt Line, Arapaho and Frankford, in the 75230, 75248, 75252 and 75254 ZIP codes. Our home care in North Dallas page has the details. We serve all of Dallas–Fort Worth, and the same team covers Addison and Plano next door, as well as nearby Preston Hollow and the Park Cities, including Highland Park.
Companion care is also the easiest way to start with a parent who says she does not need help. Someone who drives her to the hairdresser and stays for lunch does not feel like a caregiver; she feels like company. Start with one weekly visit of companion care in North Dallas, and add visits if it helps.
Call (214) 550-6533 to talk it through, or request a free in-home assessment. Ryan will come to the house or the community, listen, and write the first plan with you. No obligation, and how care starts lays out each step.
This guide is general information, not medical advice. Questions about medications or your parent's health belong with the physician.
