For families receiving 20+ hours of care a week
The caregiver leaves. Your peace of mind doesn't.
When your family receives 20 or more hours of weekly care, HomeTogether TV is included at no additional cost. Video calls, gentle reminders, daily connection, and quiet safety monitoring, all through the television she already watches.
No smartphone. No tablet. No password to forget, and nothing new for her to learn.
Already a client at 20+ hours? Call (417) 234-8494 and we will get one out to you.
Every worry, and the thing that answers it
You can read a care note and still not know how your mother sounded today. Families tell us the same thing constantly: the care is good, and they still lie awake. Nobody wants another device in the house. What they want is one less thing to be afraid of, so here is what each piece is actually for.
“I'm afraid she's lonely.”
Family video calls on her TV
Up to ten people on one call, and she can be set to answer automatically. No swiping, no squinting at a phone, no asking the caregiver to work a tablet for her. Grandchildren in three states on a Sunday afternoon, on a screen big enough for her to actually see their faces.
“I'm afraid she'll forget her medications.”
Reminders on screen
Medication times, appointments, and the days you are coming appear on the television at the moment they matter, in the room she is already sitting in. Not a note on the counter she walks past.
“I'm afraid something will happen when nobody is there.”
Quiet safety sensing
Motion and environment sensing runs in the background and notices when a normal day stops looking normal. It does not use the camera, and the camera it does have, for calls, sits behind a physical shutter she can close with her thumb. Nobody watches a live feed of your mother.
“I'm afraid the caregiver leaves and nobody knows what's happening.”
You can look in yourself, any hour
Evenings, weekends, the gaps between visits. You call, her TV lights up, and you see her instead of hearing “I'm fine.” If you would rather someone from our office look in on the days no caregiver is scheduled, virtual visits start at $75 a week.
“I'm afraid I'm missing something important.”
The whole family sees the same thing
Everyone you approve gets the same updates, so one adult child is not the family switchboard, repeating the day to four siblings every night. Changes get noticed by the people who know her, not just by us.
Everything it actually does
Families ask us what is in the box, so here is the whole thing. She only ever touches the television and the remote. Everything else happens on your phone or quietly in the background.
On her television
The only part she has to learn, and there is almost nothing to learn.
- Video calls with the family. A wide-angle HD camera built into the hub, up to ten people on a call, and it can be set to answer automatically so she never has to press a thing.
- Photos and videos you send. Anything the family shares plays right on her TV. Grandchildren's ball games and vacation pictures land on a screen she can see, not a phone she has to hold.
- Activity channels made for her. Programming chosen for older adults, on the same screen, on the same remote.
- Medication and appointment reminders. They appear on screen at the time they matter, in the room she is already sitting in.
- One simple remote. No new box to figure out, no smartphone, no tablet, no password.
Quiet safety, running in the background
None of this uses the camera. It watches for patterns, not for pictures.
- Motion sensing in the rooms that matter, so a day that stops looking like her normal day gets noticed.
- Room temperature and humidity. A furnace that quits in January or an air conditioner that dies in July shows up before she thinks to mention it.
- Ambient light sensing, which tells you a great deal about whether someone got up, opened the curtains, and started their day.
- Sound detection that can pick out sounds worth knowing about without anybody listening in.
- A physical camera shutter that closes over the lens, so you can see with your own eyes when the camera is off.
Health readings, if you want them
Optional. Plenty of families never turn this on, and that is fine.
- The hub connects to home health devices over its built-in connection, so readings do not have to be written on a notepad.
- Blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, temperature, and pulse oximetry from compatible devices.
- Readings sync to the family portal automatically, so the numbers are already there when the doctor asks.
- Ask us which devices before you buy any. We will tell you what pairs and what does not.
For you, on your phone
The family app, on iPhone and Android, plus a web portal.
- Call her from anywhere, and see her instead of hearing that she is fine.
- Set her reminders and tasks yourself, from your kitchen in another state.
- A dashboard showing how things have been going, not just a snapshot of this minute.
- Manage who can call her. Only the contacts you approve can reach her television.
- Roles for everyone involved. Family, friends, and caregivers each get their own level of access, so a neighbor who calls on Sundays does not see her blood pressure.
The parts you should never have to think about
We set it up, we keep it running, and we are the ones you call.
- No broadband at the house? It can run on the cellular network instead. Ask us, because a good number of homes out in the county do not have decent internet and this is the whole reason that matters.
- We install it. Somebody from our office brings it out and sets it up in her living room. Nothing arrives in a box for you to figure out.
- Software updates happen on their own, remotely, without anybody bothering her about it.
- Repair and replacement are handled through us if a piece of it ever fails.
- You call our Springfield office, not a manufacturer's support line in another time zone.
- It leaves with the care. If care ends, we come pick it up. There is nothing to cancel and nothing to ship back.
What changes when it is included
Same hours of care, same caregivers, same rate. One more thing in the house that the rest of the family can actually use.
Care from most agencies
- A caregiver comes and goes
- You hear how the visit went, secondhand
- Out-of-town family is out of the loop
- You call to check in and hope she picks up
- Anything extra costs extra
Care from Caring Companions
- A caregiver comes and goes
- You see her face whenever you want to
- Ten people can be on the same call from anywhere
- The TV rings and she does not have to do a thing
- Included at 20+ hours, at no charge, ever
It changes how we supervise, too
Most agencies check on care with a phone call and a note in a file. We would rather see it.
The usual supervisory visit
- A call to the family every so often
- A note written after the fact
- An in-person visit every few months
- Small problems surface late, if at all
How we can check in
- A coordinator can call in on her television
- We see how she looks, not how it was written up
- We see how she and her caregiver are getting on
- The small things get caught while they are still small
Always announced, never a hidden camera
A check-in is a call, the same as one from you. It comes up on the screen and she knows exactly who is there. Your family chooses in the settings whether calls answer automatically or whether she presses the button on her remote, and that choice is yours to change any time.
Who it is for
You qualify if all three are true
- 20 or more hours of care a week. That is roughly three hours a day, or two longer visits.
- Private pay. Including long-term care insurance and VA benefits paid privately. Medicaid-funded care is not eligible for this offer.
- You are in our service area. Springfield and the surrounding southwest Missouri communities we serve.
No waiting period. It goes in when care starts, not thirty days later.
The honest fine print
The equipment stays ours. It is loaned to you for as long as we are providing the care, the same as any loaned equipment, and it comes back to us when services end. We come pick it up. There is a $300 charge only if it is never returned.
If your hours drop below 20 a week, you can keep it at the regular $99 a month or hand it back. We will ask you first either way, so nobody gets a surprise charge.
It plugs into an HDMI port on almost any television made in the last fifteen years. Home internet is the usual setup, and if the house does not have broadband, ask us about running it on the cellular network instead.
How it happens
We talk
A free consultation, in your home or on the phone. No pressure and no obligation.
Care starts
Your caregiver is matched and the schedule begins. Twenty hours a week or more.
We bring it out
That same week. Somebody from our office sets it up on her television, shows her the one button, and makes the first call with her.
You call her
From your phone, from anywhere. Her TV lights up with your face on it.
Not at 20 hours? You can still have it
The offer is a thank you to families who trust us with most of their week. It is not a wall. There are two other ways in, and one of them is the best value in anything we sell.
Buy it on its own
A month, free shipping, cancel any time, 30-day money-back guarantee. Same device, same everything, whatever your hours look like.
Add virtual visits, from $75 a week
A trained caregiver appears on her television once, twice or three times a day, Monday through Friday. Watches her take her medication, prompts her blood pressure or blood sugar, and stays for real conversation.
Or reach 20 hours
Often it is only an hour a day more than families are already considering, and at that point the device costs nothing.
Why the virtual visits are the quiet bargain
An in-person visit anywhere in the country runs about $130 once you count the four-hour minimum most agencies insist on. A caregiver checking in on her TV every weekday starts at $75 for the whole week, and you can have them come once, twice or three times a day. It will never replace someone in the room, and it is not meant to. But for the days between visits, it is the cheapest way there is to have real eyes on her.
Already with another agency?
Switching is easier than people expect, and it is usually a conversation and a start date rather than a project. If you are comparing us against somebody else right now, this is the part they cannot match. Ask them what is included at 20 hours a week.
We will tell you honestly if we are not the right fit. We would rather send you somewhere better than take a family we cannot serve well.
One conversation, and you will know
A free consultation with somebody local who does this every day. We will talk through what she actually needs, what it costs, and whether 20 hours makes sense for your family.
Book a free consultation → Or call (417) 234-8494