Who should the website actually be written for?

The adult child, in almost every case. They are the one searching, comparing agencies and making the call, often under time pressure and often at a distance. The care recipient should be written about with respect and rarely written to, because copy in the second person aimed at seniors reads past the person actually deciding.

How much should we say about pricing?

Enough that a family can tell whether this is possible for them. An hourly range and a clear explanation of what changes it is worth more than a number you would have to revise, and far more than nothing. Most agencies say nothing, which is why so many enquiries end at the first call when cost comes up.

Is a careers section really worth the investment?

In this sector it is often the highest-return part of the site. Your capacity is set by how many caregivers you can hire and retain, so every client you turn away is a caregiver you did not recruit. Treating careers as an afterthought while spending on client acquisition grows the waiting list rather than the business.

Do we need separate pages for each service?

For the ones families search by name, yes. Companion care, personal care, dementia care and respite care are distinct searches with distinct concerns, and a single services page addressed to all of them answers none of them well. What you do not need is a page per service per town.

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Websites for home care agencies

Written for the adult child making the call, and built to recruit the caregivers you cannot take clients without.

Best for non-medical home care and home health agencies whose growth is capped by how many caregivers they can hire and keep.

We have worked on more than five home care websites, and the same structural mistake shows up on nearly all of them: the site is written to the person receiving care when the person reading it is their daughter, at eleven at night, three days after a fall. Everything else follows from getting that reader wrong.

The reader is the adult child, not the client

Copy addressed to seniors, in the second person, reads past the actual decision maker. The adult child is managing guilt, distance, siblings who disagree and a parent who does not want help, and they are trying to establish whether your agency is competent and safe. That is a different emotional job from reassuring the person receiving care, and it wants plain answers about vetting, supervision, consistency of caregiver and what happens when somebody calls in sick.

Answer the funding question before anything else

Home care is paid for in several different ways and families rarely know which applies to them: private pay, long-term care insurance, a Medicaid waiver, veterans' benefits, or some combination. A site that lists services without addressing how any of it gets paid for leaves the reader with the one question that determines whether they can proceed at all. Name what you accept, say plainly what happens when a family does not have coverage, and explain how the assessment works, because the alternative is a call that ends in disappointment for both sides.

Caregiver recruiting is not an HR page

An agency cannot take clients it has no caregivers for, so recruiting is a direct constraint on revenue rather than an administrative task. In practice the careers section is often the busiest part of a home care website, and it is usually the least considered. Caregivers are choosing between agencies on scheduling reliability, travel between clients, whether hours are guaranteed, how much support they get on a difficult case, and whether pay is what was advertised. Answering those honestly recruits better than any amount of language about being a family.

Copy addressed to the adult child, with the care recipient spoken about respectfully rather than to
Funding routes named explicitly, including what happens without coverage
A careers section built as a second funnel, with its own pages and its own honesty
Caregiver vetting, supervision and continuity described concretely rather than promised
Service areas that reflect where caregivers can actually travel, not where you wish they could

The site is usually written to the person receiving care. The person reading it is their daughter, three days after a fall.

What a build here actually includes

Every build is scoped to the practice, but on this kind of site these are the parts that are not optional.

Messaging aimed at the adult child, who is the actual decision maker
A funding page that names payment routes rather than deferring to a call
Careers built as a genuine second funnel with role-specific pages
Vetting, supervision and caregiver continuity written concretely
Service areas drawn around real travel time between clients

What we keep seeing go wrong

None of these are hypothetical. They are the things that turn up again and again on sites in this vertical, and most of them are cheap to avoid and expensive to undo.

Second-person copy addressed to seniors on a page an adult child is reading
No mention of how care is paid for until somebody calls to ask
A careers page that is one paragraph and a generic application form
Stock photography of models rather than caregivers you actually employ
A coverage map drawn around ambition instead of where staff can realistically travel

Questions we get asked first

Who should the website actually be written for?: The adult child, in almost every case. They are the one searching, comparing agencies and making the call, often under time pressure and often at a distance. The care recipient should be written about with respect and rarely written to, because copy in the second person aimed at seniors reads past the person actually deciding.
How much should we say about pricing?: Enough that a family can tell whether this is possible for them. An hourly range and a clear explanation of what changes it is worth more than a number you would have to revise, and far more than nothing. Most agencies say nothing, which is why so many enquiries end at the first call when cost comes up.
Is a careers section really worth the investment?: In this sector it is often the highest-return part of the site. Your capacity is set by how many caregivers you can hire and retain, so every client you turn away is a caregiver you did not recruit. Treating careers as an afterthought while spending on client acquisition grows the waiting list rather than the business.
Do we need separate pages for each service?: For the ones families search by name, yes. Companion care, personal care, dementia care and respite care are distinct searches with distinct concerns, and a single services page addressed to all of them answers none of them well. What you do not need is a page per service per town.