Areas We Serve
In-Home Senior Care in Tempe, Across the Whole City
Seniors Helping Seniors® in-home care services sends a Caregiver who is a senior themselves to your parent's own front door, from the older streets near downtown to the subdivisions of south Tempe. Companionship, personal care, meals, errands and the driving, for as few or as many hours as the week actually needs.
Quick answer
Do you serve Tempe, Arizona?
Yes. Tempe is the newest city in the Seniors Helping Seniors® Scottsdale territory, confirmed in August 2026, and the whole city is inside it. A Caregiver comes to your parent's own home for companionship, personal care, meals, light housekeeping, errands, rides and respite. The help is non-medical, it can be a few hours a week or most of the day, and the first visit costs nothing.
Scottsdale is our home base, and it shares a border with Tempe, so this is the next city over rather than a long haul across the Valley.
Worth saying plainly, because you will not find it on many care websites: Tempe is new to us. There is no shelf of Tempe families we have already looked after, and we are not going to invent one. What we can do is tell you on the phone exactly who would come and what they would do, then come out and show you in your parent's living room.
The City Itself
What is different about arranging care in Tempe?
Tempe ran out of room a long time ago. Phoenix sits on its western edge, Scottsdale on the north, Mesa on the east and Chandler on the south, so rather than spreading outward the city stayed where it was and grew older in place. The streets closest to downtown and the university were laid out first and have the mature trees to prove it. The subdivisions in south Tempe came later, with wider lots and younger shade.
It is also flat, and laid out on a grid with sidewalks, which quietly matters more than it sounds. A parent who can still manage a block can still manage a block here. A Caregiver can cross from one end of the city to the other without a mountain in the way.
And it is young. Arizona State University's main campus sits in the middle of it, and the median age across the whole city is 30.5, per Census Reporter's summary of the U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey (opens in new tab). That figure says nothing at all about your own parent. It does explain how someone in their eighties can end up feeling like the last one left on a block where everybody else is twenty, and why what helps is not a program but a person in the house.
None of it changes what the work is. It changes where the pressure lands: on getting places, on the heat, and on how easily a week can pass without one real conversation in it.
Key facts
- Service area
- All of Tempe, from north Tempe and the downtown streets to the subdivisions of south Tempe
- Where we work
- Private homes, assisted living and independent living
- Getting around
- Door through door rides, in Tempe and across the Valley
- Caregivers
- Seniors themselves, background-checked, bonded and insured, matched by personality
- Scope
- Non-medical help, from a few hours a week to daily
- Cost of the first visit
- Nothing, and nothing to sign
- Reach us
- Mon-Fri, 8 AM to 6 PM · 24/7 for emergencies · (480) 674-5400 · info@shsscottsdale.com
What We Do
What would a Caregiver actually do in your parent's house?
Whatever the week needs, inside a non-medical scope. Most families start in one of these three shapes and widen it later.
Company, and the ordinary day
Conversation, cards, a walk before it gets hot, and somebody in the room who notices when something is off. For a parent living alone this is often the whole of it.
Companionship and socialization service page →A hand with the hard parts
Bathing, dressing, grooming and moving safely around the house, done unhurriedly by somebody close to your parent's own age, which is most of what makes it possible to accept.
Personal care and daily living service page →Relief for whoever is carrying it
When a husband, a wife or an adult child has quietly become the person who does everything, a Caregiver takes hours off their week so they are still standing next month.
Respite care for families service page →Out The Door
How do you get someone outside in a Tempe summer?
Early, or not at all. From roughly May into September the middle of the day here is not usable by anybody, and it is least forgiving of the people least equipped to handle it. So the walk happens before eight in the morning, and everything else moves indoors until the sun comes off the street.
Tempe helps with this more than most of the Valley does. It is flat, the older neighborhoods have grown real shade over sixty or seventy years, and the path around Tempe Town Lake is paved the whole way round with places to sit. For a parent using a walker, benches are the difference between a walk and a nice idea.
The light rail runs the length of Apache Boulevard, and it is genuinely useful for a person who can get to a station and stand on a platform in August. If your parent cannot, a station three blocks away is not transportation. A Caregiver in the driveway at ten to nine is.
Appointments are the other half of it. Your parent gets collected at the door, walked in, sat with, and driven home, and afterwards somebody who was actually in the room can tell you what the doctor said. The pharmacy stop happens on the way back instead of becoming a second trip on Thursday.
Who Calls Us
Who picks up the phone about a parent in Tempe?
- The daughter twenty minutes away who has become the pharmacy run, the grocery run, the laundry and the phone call at eleven at night, on top of her own job.
- The son two time zones away who cannot tell from a phone call whether the answer he just got was true, and who books flights he cannot really afford to find out.
- The husband or wife who became a caregiver without ever agreeing to it, and who has not had an afternoon off in a year.
- The parent themselves, who is fine, mostly, but has stopped cooking properly and has not driven after dark since the spring.
Four different starting points, and the first month usually looks the same from all of them: a Caregiver in the house a couple of mornings a week, doing the specific things that had become too much, and staying long enough that the visit feels like company rather than a service call.
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Getting Started
How does care start in Tempe?
You call (480) 674-5400 and talk to a person. Not a queue, not a script, and not a sales call dressed as an assessment. Tell us what changed and we will tell you honestly whether this is the kind of thing we are any good at.
If it sounds like we can help, Andy Lask, who owns this office, drives out to your parent's house in Tempe. He looks at the rooms, listens to what the last few months have been like, and says what he thinks. It takes about an hour, it is free, and there is nothing to sign at the end of it. What happens on a free care visit walks through it step by step.
If you go ahead, we match a Caregiver on personality rather than on whoever happened to be free that morning, and we aim to keep the same person coming back so your parent opens the door to a face they know. Start at a few hours a week. Change it whenever the week changes.
There is no form anywhere on this site, on purpose. Call, or email info@shsscottsdale.com, and a person answers.
FAQ
Questions Tempe families ask first
Do you serve Tempe, Arizona?
Yes. Tempe became part of the Seniors Helping Seniors® Scottsdale territory in August 2026, and the whole city is inside it, from the older streets near downtown and the university to the newer subdivisions in south Tempe. We are new here, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What we can do on the phone is tell you exactly who would come to the house and what they would do once they got there.
What can a Caregiver help my parent with at home in Tempe?
Non-medical support, shaped around your parent: companionship, personal care such as bathing, dressing and grooming, meal preparation and shopping, light housekeeping, medication reminders, memory and dementia support, respite for a family caregiver, and rides to appointments and errands. You can start with a few hours a week or ask for daily help, and change it as things change.
Can a Caregiver give my parent their medication?
No. This is a non-medical agency. A Caregiver can remind your parent that it is time, bring the water, and tell you when doses are being missed, but they do not hand out or measure doses, and they do not provide nursing, wound care or therapy of any kind. If your parent needs any of that, we will say so plainly and help you work out who to call.
Can a Caregiver drive my parent to appointments around Tempe?
Yes, and it is one of the first things families ask for. A Caregiver collects your parent at the door, drives them, walks in with them, waits, and brings them home again, whether the appointment is in Tempe or on the far side of the Valley. Groceries, the pharmacy, the bank and lunch with a friend all count too.
How does care start, and what does the first visit cost?
It starts with a call to (480) 674-5400 and a conversation with a person. If it sounds like we can help, Andy comes out to your parent's home in Tempe, looks at the rooms with you, and works out what would genuinely make the week easier. That visit is free and there is nothing to sign at the end of it.
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Andy Lask, OwnerMeet Andy →
Tempe, Arizona
Your parent's street is in our territory now.
Call and say what changed: the footing, the driving, the cooking, the long quiet afternoons, or only that something feels off and you cannot name it yet.
Andy will come out to the house in Tempe, free, and work out with you what would actually help.
There is no form to fill out. Andy and his staff answer Mon-Fri, 8 AM to 6 PM, and 24/7 for emergencies. Emails get a reply in under 4 hours.