Home Care in Somerset, NJ: Care Across Franklin Township

Most agencies that advertise home care in Somerset, NJ dispatch from somewhere else. Our office is at 220 Davidson Avenue in Somerset, 08873, which means the people who build your care plan drive the same roads your caregiver does.

Somerset is a mailing address, not a municipality, and that trips families up constantly. The 08873 and 08875 ZIP codes cover most of Franklin Township, the most populous municipality in Somerset County with 68,364 residents at the 2020 census and 46 square miles bounded by the Raritan and Millstone Rivers. Under that one postal name sit village sections that feel nothing alike: East Millstone, Middlebush, Griggstown, Blackwells Mills, Zarephath, Six Mile Run and the dense neighborhoods off Franklin Boulevard and Hamilton Street. A caregiver's shift on a farm road near Griggstown and a shift in a garden apartment near Easton Avenue are two different jobs.

We staff both, from a few hours a week through hourly care up to live-in care, usually starting the same day you call.

Somerset sits closer to New Brunswick's hospitals than to its own county seat, and that shapes almost every call we take here. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital New Brunswick, a Level I trauma center at One Robert Wood Johnson Place, and Saint Peter's University Hospital, a 478-bed teaching hospital and state-designated stroke center at 254 Easton Avenue, are both a short drive down Easton Avenue or Route 27. Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville, the county's 355-bed regional medical center, is the third.

Far more often, though, the call comes not from the hospital but from a sub-acute rehab a few weeks later, when Medicare days run out and the therapist says the stairs still are not safe. Somerset has an unusual concentration of those facilities inside its own ZIP code: Parker at Somerset at 15 Dellwood Lane, a 120-bed skilled nursing and post-acute rehabilitation center run by Parker, the not-for-profit that has been in aging services since 1907; Somerset Woods Rehabilitation and Nursing Center at 780 Old New Brunswick Road, licensed for 148 long-term care beds; Regency Jewish Heritage at 380 Demott Lane; and King James Care Center on Easton Avenue.

The handoff from any of them is the same problem. Therapy stops, the equipment arrives, and nobody is in the house at 6 a.m. That is what hospital-to-home care and mobility care are for.