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Help At Home

5480 Wisconsin Ave

4.9(15 ratings)· Chevy Chase average: 4.4

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Quick Facts

Availability
Care available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Service area
Serves DC metro, Maryland, and Northern Virginia
Staff credentials
Staff includes CNAs, GNAs, HHAs, and LPNs

What Families Think

Families describe Help At Home as a personalized, well-managed in-home care agency serving the Chevy Chase and greater DC/Maryland/Virginia area. Reviewers consistently praise founder Terri Rabkin's responsiveness and skill in matching clients with compassionate, capable caregivers, especially during post-hospital recovery, long-term daily care, and end-of-life hospice support.

The Good

  • Reviewers praise Terri's quick, thoughtful caregiver matching
  • Caregivers described as reliable, kind, and highly professional
  • Strong communication with out-of-town family members
  • Works closely and effectively alongside hospice teams
  • Flexible scheduling from short-term to full 24/7 care
  • Caregivers credited with real physical therapy-like support

The Bad

  • No published pricing information available

AI-generated from reviews and community data.

About Help At Home

Help At Home is an in-home senior care agency serving Chevy Chase, Maryland and the surrounding Maryland, Virginia, and Washington DC metropolitan areas. The agency provides personalized home care services including personal caregiving assistance, post-hospital surgical care, companionship, and care coordination, available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Help At Home's staff includes Certified Nursing Assistants, Geriatric Nursing Assistants, Home Health Aides, and Licensed Practical Nurses who are carefully screened and thoroughly vetted before hiring. The agency emphasizes matching caregivers to clients based on personality compatibility and specific care needs through an in-depth assessment process and ongoing care coordination.

Founded in August 2001 by Terri Rabkin, MSW, who brings 25 years of experience in home health care, Help At Home operates on a hands-on philosophy focused on understanding each client's unique circumstances, medical history, and support systems. The agency customizes care programs to deliver individualized attention and maintains close relationships with its staff to ensure quality service delivery.

Services offered include assistance with daily living activities, transportation to appointments and errands, meal preparation, post-surgical recovery support, and companionship through engaging activities on flexible schedules. The agency has expanded its coverage area to include Bethesda, Rockville, and Silver Spring in Maryland, as well as Northern Virginia suburbs and the Washington DC metropolitan area.

Types of Care

Home Health and Hospice

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Reviews

4.9overall · 15 ratings combined

4.9★ on Google (15)

Jon Jerison

Jan 2025

via Google

Joseph has been helping me for the last few weeks. Having him has been like having a full-time physical therapist with me. Joseph has functioned as both my CNA and my personal trainer. This is one example of Joseph's talents: I have balance issues that have led to many falls. Some time ago, I fell on the steps leading up to our house, which led me to develop a phobia about climbing those steps. I had managed on my own to climb a neiighbor's identical steps, but Joseph insisted that I had to do it at the "scene of the crime" and brought me back to our house. With Joseph "spotting" me, I easily negotiated our steps too! A fear that I had carried with me for years vanished in an instant. This is why I have no hesitation in giving Joseph a five-star rating.

Susan Jerison

Jan 2025

via Google

We had excellent support from Terry. She took the time to understand my husband’s needs and matched us with Joseph. He was an outstanding aide for my husband. If we ever need support again, I won’t hesitate to see if Joesph is available.

courtney omalley

Sep 2024

via Google

What distinguishes Help at Home from other agencies is the genuine care and respect with which Terri treats the caregivers she employs. This supports them to carry out their jobs with that same dedication. We had to scramble to get last-minute 24/7 care for our father after he was discharged from the hospital, and Terri thoughtfully and quickly assembled an exceptional team of people. They proved to be deeply kind, respectful, responsible, and smart caretakers with excellent judgement in sensitive circumstances. Terri herself is an immediately responsive, diligent and resourceful problem-solver who always figured out how to cover shifts even when (understandable but unpredictable) disruptions occurred. Thanks to her and her team, our father was able to remain at home in his final months, as he and our mother wanted. We would never have been able to pull that off without such trusted and dependable resources.

lori hurwitz

May 2022

via Google

Terri and her team are amazing! From the beginning, Terri was so helpful by providing information that was extremely useful with the process of providing caregivers for my Mom. She is a professional and a great source of information, from how to deal with the insurance company, to finding a good match for caregivers. Terri is very easy to work with, and works hard to accommodate scheduling and placement for her caregivers. Terri responds to emails and messages very quickly. I can't say enough about the two caregivers that are currently with my Mom. Vivian and Marjorie are reliable, professional, caring, engaging, kind, and overall just AWESOME! They are with my Mom for long hours and they are always so upbeat and positive. They both treat my mother with the utmost respect. They work extremely well with the Hospice team and I get compliments all the time from Hospice in regards to the care they give my Mom. My Mom is so well taken care of by these two angels, I couldn't ask for more!

Jon Kurland

Jun 2020

via Google

Help At Home has been an amazing resource for my mom. We started with a short-term arrangement for help after she had knee surgery in 2012, and then a few years later scheduled a half-day visit per week to take her to do grocery shopping and other errands after she stopped driving, and provide a bit of companionship. More recently my mom has needed 24/7 care. At each stage, Help At Home's proprietor Terri has been thoughtful and attentive in matching my mom with capable and compassionate caregivers. Terri and her staff have been extremely flexible and have maintained open communication with my siblings and me, which has been incredibly valuable since none of us live nearby. I heartily recommend Help At Home to anyone needing care for a loved one. They're top notch.

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