No Place Like Home Care is a nurse-led, licensed home care agency serving families in Allentown, Bethlehem, Macungie, Emmaus, Center Valley, South Whitehall, and communities throughout Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Private pay. LTCI accepted. VA Aid & Attendance accepted.
No Place Like Home Care is a nurse led, licensed home care agency serving families in Allentown, Bethlehem, Macungie, Emmaus, Center Valley, South Whitehall, and communities throughout Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. Private pay. LTCI accepted. VA Aid & Attendance accepted.
Non-medical home care provides hands-on daily support, bathing, dressing, meal preparation, companionship, medication reminders, and light housekeeping, for seniors who want to remain at home rather than transition to an assisted living or memory care facility.
No Place Like Home Care is a licensed Pennsylvania home care agency founded by Kelly Tyrrell, RN. Every care plan for every client in Lehigh County is personally nurse-designed. Every caregiver is W-2 employed, background-checked, and skills-verified before their first shift.
We serve families throughout Allentown, Bethlehem, Macungie, Emmaus, Center Valley, South Whitehall Township, and surrounding communities across Lehigh County. Long-term care insurance accepted. VA Aid & Attendance accepted.
Private pay only. Medicare and Medicaid not accepted.
If you've been searching for Lehigh Valley home care, you've likely encountered Lehigh Valley Home Care, a division of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), the region's largest hospital system. LVHN's home care division is a medically-licensed clinical agency that provides skilled nursing, physical therapy, and post-surgical care under a physician's order.
No Place Like Home Care is a separate, independent agency. We are not affiliated with Lehigh Valley Health Network in any way. We specialize in non-medical private-duty home care, the daily personal support, companionship, and household assistance that families arrange privately, without a doctor's order, and without insurance pre-authorization.
Both services can work alongside each other. Families often use LVHN for medical recovery and No Place Like Home Care for ongoing daily living support. They are different services addressing different needs. If you're looking for a licensed non-medical home care agency that accepts long-term care insurance and VA Aid & Attendance benefits, you're in the right place.
When a family in Allentown or Macungie begins researching senior care options, they typically encounter three paths: move a parent into a residential care community, hire an independent caregiver privately, or engage a licensed home care agency. Each of these carries a very different cost, and a very different level of accountability.
Memory care facilities in the Allentown area average $5,693 to $6,802 per month. In Bethlehem, the range climbs to $6,802 to $8,500 per month depending on the community tier. Standard assisted living in the region averages $4,399 to $5,063 per month.
These figures cover room, board, meals, and access to facility staff. They do not include medication management fees, level-of-care surcharges, or the transportation costs families incur visiting a parent who is no longer living at home. For many families in Lower Macungie, South Whitehall, or Center Valley, a residential move at $5,000 to $8,000 per month prompts the obvious question: could the same dollars keep my parent home instead?
For most families who need part-time or moderate levels of daily support, the answer is yes.
Online platforms and local registries advertise independent caregivers in the Allentown area at $19 to $24 per hour. These figures are often cited in news coverage and online articles about home care costs.
They are also incomplete.
Independent caregivers hired privately are not employees of a licensed agency. They are not covered by agency liability insurance. Their background checks, training, and supervision are the family's responsibility. If an independent caregiver is injured in your parent's home, the legal and financial exposure falls to the family. If they call in sick, the family finds a replacement.
Licensed home care agencies in the Lehigh Valley charge $28 to $35 per hour. No Place Like Home Care operates at the premium end of that market, because every caregiver we place is a W-2 employee, fully insured, skills-tested, reference-verified, and supervised by Kelly Tyrrell, RN.
The premium exists for a reason. Families who have been down the independent hire path before understand it immediately.
At $34 per hour, a family arranging 80 hours of care per month, roughly 20 hours per week, four hours each weekday, pays approximately $2,720 per month for No Place Like Home Care.
That is less than half the cost of memory care at Arden Courts of Allentown or Legend Senior Living in Lower Macungie. It is less than the entry-level tier at most assisted living communities along the Route 309 corridor in South Whitehall.
And it keeps a parent in their own home.
For families with long-term care insurance, a significant portion of that cost is typically covered by the policy. For veterans and surviving spouses who qualify for VA Aid & Attendance benefits, up to $2,300 or $1,153 per month respectively may offset the cost. For families paying privately, the comparison to residential alternatives usually makes the decision clear.
No Place Like Home Care serves families across Lehigh County, from the high-growth western suburbs to the Allentown and Bethlehem urban core. Our private-pay model means our clients are families who have made a conscious choice to invest in professional, nurse-supervised in-home care rather than accepting a lower standard of oversight.
Center Valley and Upper Saucon Township represent the highest median household income community in our Lehigh County service area. Families here are accustomed to professional services and high accountability standards. Many have long-term care insurance policies that have been in place for years. When a parent reaches the point of needing daily support, they want a licensed agency, not a referral from a directory, and they want to know the owner of that agency personally oversees every placement.
No Place Like Home Care serves Center Valley, Coopersburg, and the communities of Upper Saucon Township. Kelly Tyrrell, RN personally conducts or supervises every initial assessment in this area.
The Macungie communities, Lower Macungie, Macungie Borough, and Upper Macungie, represent some of the fastest-growing and most affluent residential areas in Lehigh County. The stretch of Route 100 south of Allentown has become a hub for families who moved to the Lehigh Valley for quality of life and intend to keep parents in that same environment as long as safely possible.
Memory care facilities serving the Macungie market, including Legend Senior Living on Lower Macungie Road and Inspirit Senior Living nearby, charge $6,802 to $9,000 per month for specialized dementia care. In-home care from No Place Like Home Care at $34 per hour covers substantially the same daily support for families who need part-time supervision, at a fraction of that cost.
We serve Lower Macungie Township, Macungie Borough, Upper Macungie Township, and the Breinigsville community throughout the week.
South Whitehall Township, west of Allentown along the Route 309 corridor, is a mature, established residential community with a significant and growing senior population. Many families in South Whitehall have been residents for decades, parents who raised children here and have every intention of remaining in those homes.
No Place Like Home Care provides personal care, companion care, cognitive support, respite care, and overnight coverage throughout South Whitehall Township. For families in this area exploring options alongside the Allentown Health Bureau's fall prevention programs or Lehigh Valley Active Life's aging-in-place resources, we are a natural complement.
Allentown is the largest city in Lehigh County and the primary source of search volume for home care services in this region. Bethlehem straddles Lehigh and Northampton counties, with the Northampton County Area Agency on Aging serving the eastern portions and Lehigh County's office serving the west.
Families in both cities are searching for home care agencies, often alongside nursing homes like Cedarbrook and facilities like Phoebe Allentown, and encountering a market dominated by national franchise brands. No Place Like Home Care is a nurse-led independent agency, not a franchise operation. Every client in Allentown and Bethlehem is personally served by a team that Kelly Tyrrell, RN oversees directly.
We serve Allentown's East Side, West End, and South Allentown neighborhoods, as well as Bethlehem's South Side and West Bethlehem communities, and the surrounding boroughs of Emmaus and Fountain Hill.
Non-medical home care covers the daily support that makes it possible for a senior to remain safely at home. No Place Like Home Care provides the following services throughout Lehigh County:
Hands-on assistance with bathing, grooming, dressing, toileting, and mobility. Personal care is the most common entry point for families whose parent has reached the point where physical limitations make daily self-care unsafe or impossible alone. Every personal care client in Lehigh County receives a nurse-designed care plan before their first shift begins.
Meaningful engagement, conversation, recreational activities, errand support, and meal preparation for seniors at risk of social isolation. Companion care is appropriate for seniors who are physically capable but cognitively or emotionally benefit from consistent, reliable human presence. Research consistently shows that social isolation is one of the leading
predictors of cognitive decline, companion care addresses that directly.
Non-medical in-home support for seniors living with dementia, Alzheimer's disease, or Parkinson's disease. Our caregivers receive Learn2Care dementia training and are matched specifically for their comfort and experience with cognitive care needs. Structured daily routines, wandering prevention, medication reminders, and gentle behavioral redirection are built into every cognitive care plan. In-home dementia care in Lehigh County costs far less than the $6,802 to $9,000 per month residential memory care alternative, without requiring a parent to leave the familiar home environment that dementia research shows is critically important to behavioral stability.
Scheduled and emergency temporary relief for family caregivers throughout the Lehigh Valley. Respite care from No Place Like Home Care allows primary family caregivers, adult children, spouses, siblings, to rest, travel, manage their own health, or simply recover from the sustained physical and emotional demands of full-time caregiving. We offer hourly respite shifts, overnight respite, and multi-day coverage. Family caregivers in Lehigh County who participate in the Pennsylvania Caregiver Support Program may receive up to $600 per month in financial reimbursement for qualified respite care expenses, No Place Like Home Care qualifies as that provider.
Full-time or overnight caregiver presence for seniors who cannot safely be left alone. Live-in care places a dedicated caregiver in the home for extended shifts, providing continuous non-medical support at a flat daily rate. Overnight care covers the hours when fall risk, sundowning confusion, and nighttime wandering make unsupervised sleeping hours dangerous. Both options are available to Lehigh County families through No Place Like Home Care.
Non-medical recovery support for seniors returning home to the Lehigh Valley after a hospitalization, surgery, or cardiac event. The first 72 hours following hospital discharge are statistically the highest-risk window for readmission, and they are the hours when most families are most overwhelmed. No Place Like Home Care provides structured non-medical oversight during that critical transition period, supporting discharge instructions, medication reminders, meal preparation, and daily activity while the family stabilizes and the clinical team manages medical care.
The term "nurse-led" is used loosely in home care marketing. Here is what it means at No Place Like Home Care, specifically, concretely, and in terms that actually affect the care your family receives.
Kelly Tyrrell, RN personally conducts or directly supervises every initial in-home assessment for clients in Lehigh County. That means a Registered Nurse reviews your parent's daily challenges, physical limitations, cognitive status, home environment, existing medical care, and specific needs before any caregiver is assigned.
Every care plan is written by Kelly. Every caregiver assignment is reviewed by Kelly before placement is confirmed. Every care plan update goes through Kelly's clinical oversight.
No other home care agency operating in the Lehigh Valley today offers that level of RN involvement at the individual client level. National franchise brands assign coordinators. Independent referral agencies hand you a directory. No Place Like Home Care gives you a Registered Nurse who knows your parent's name, their diagnosis, their preferences, and their care plan.
That is what nurse-led means here.
No Place Like Home Care was founded by Kelly Tyrrell, RN, a Registered Nurse with nearly 20 years of clinical experience across Medical-Surgical units, Emergency and Trauma departments, Telemetry, Acute Rehabilitation, and Home Health settings, plus executive experience in home health operations and caregiver recruitment.
Kelly founded No Place Like Home Care because she spent two decades watching families in Pennsylvania make home care decisions without the clinical guidance they needed, hiring independent caregivers without understanding the liability, placing parents in facilities before exhausting in-home alternatives, or accepting a lower standard of oversight because they didn't know a higher standard existed.
No Place Like Home Care exists to be that higher standard in Lehigh County and across southeastern Pennsylvania.
Every family that calls us speaks with someone who understands clinical care, not just scheduling. Every care plan reflects nursing judgment, not a checklist. And every caregiver we place has been evaluated by a professional who knows what good caregiving looks like, because she has delivered it.

The Lehigh Valley has one of the most organized aging-in-place communities in Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley Aging in Place (LVAIP), a regional non-profit coalition of care professionals and community organizations, has been coordinating education and resources to help seniors remain home since 2006. The Lehigh County Agency on Aging coordinates a Senior Home Safety Visitation Program that identifies fall hazards and structural risks before they become emergencies. LANTA provides subsidized medical transportation for seniors who can no longer drive.
These resources reflect something true about this community: Lehigh Valley families tend to prefer keeping parents at home, and have built an infrastructure to support that preference.
No Place Like Home Care fits naturally into that infrastructure. We are not a facility. We are not a placement service. We are the in-home care agency that makes aging in place operationally possible for families who need more support than family members alone can provide.
When the Lehigh County Area Agency on Aging has done what it can. When LANTA has covered transportation. When Meals on Wheels is handling weekday lunch deliveries. When all of those community supports are in place and a family still needs consistent, supervised, personal care hours from a licensed agency, that is when No Place Like Home Care steps in.
No Place Like Home Care is a private-pay agency. We do not accept Medicare or Medicaid. Here is how families in Lehigh County typically fund care:
Most long-term care insurance policies issued in the last 20 years cover non-medical in-home care from a licensed agency. If your parent holds an LTCI policy, including policies issued through employer plans, AARP, Genworth, Mutual of Omaha, or similar carriers, that policy almost certainly applies to No Place Like Home Care's services. We bill LTCI insurers directly. Families in Upper Saucon, Macungie, and South Whitehall frequently find their LTCI policies cover a significant portion of the cost. Bring your policy information to the initial assessment and Kelly will help you understand what applies.
Veterans and surviving spouses who qualify for VA Aid & Attendance pension benefits can use those funds to pay for No Place Like Home Care directly. In 2026, the Aid & Attendance benefit pays up to $2,300 per month for a veteran, $2,727 for a veteran with a dependent, and $1,153 per month for a surviving spouse. No VA contract is required, Aid & Attendance funds are disbursed as part of the monthly pension check and can be used with any licensed home care agency, including No Place Like Home Care.
Families who pay privately do so because they have evaluated the alternatives, residential memory care at $6,802 per month, independent hire with no agency oversight, national franchise brands with no nurse involvement, and concluded that No Place Like Home Care represents the right value for what they are actually getting. Private pay clients in Lehigh County receive the same nurse-designed care plan, the same caregiver matching review, and the same Kelly Tyrrell, RN oversight as every other client we serve.
Family caregivers in Lehigh County who are primary caregivers for an older adult may qualify for up to $600 per month in financial reimbursement through the Pennsylvania Caregiver Support Program, administered by the Lehigh County Office of Aging and Adult Services. These funds can be applied to the cost of respite care from No Place Like Home Care. Contact the Lehigh County Office of Aging at 610-782-3200 for eligibility details.
Pennsylvania's senior care system uses terminology that frequently confuses families searching for in-home options.
A Personal Care Home in Pennsylvania is a licensed residential facility, a building where seniors live full-time and receive 24/7 housing, meals, and assistance with daily activities from facility staff. It is not in-home care. It is not a caregiver who comes to your parent's house. Personal Care Homes in the Lehigh Valley include properties like Phoebe Allentown and various assisted living communities operating under Personal Care Home licensure.
No Place Like Home Care is a licensed home care agency. We send caregivers into a client's existing home. Your parent does not move. There is no facility. There is no admission process. There is a Registered Nurse who designs a care plan, a matched caregiver who arrives at the scheduled time, and a family that retains full involvement in every decision about their parent's care.
If you have been searching for "personal care allentown pa" or "personal care home lehigh valley" and are looking for in-home alternatives, you have found one. Call (610) 492-6632 to discuss what non-medical in-home care looks like for your specific situation.
Step 1 — Call or text (610) 492-6632
Most families in Lehigh County begin with a phone call. Tell us where your parent lives, what kind of support they need, and what timeline you're working with. We will ask the right questions and give you honest answers, including whether in-home care is the right fit for your situation or whether a different type of resource better matches what you need.
Step 2 — Free nurse-led in-home assessment
Kelly Tyrrell, RN personally conducts or directly supervises every initial assessment for clients in Lehigh County. She will visit your parent's home, review their daily challenges and physical environment, discuss existing medical care and community supports already in place, and build a care plan that reflects your parent's actual life, not a generic template.
Step 3 — Caregiver matching
Every caregiver assignment is reviewed before placement is confirmed. We match on health condition experience, schedule compatibility, communication style, and personality fit. Clients in Macungie who need early-morning personal care get a caregiver with early-shift experience. Clients in Center Valley with dementia get a caregiver with specific cognitive care training. The match matters, and we take it seriously.
Step 4 — Care begins
No Place Like Home Care can typically begin services within 24 to 72 hours for families in Lehigh County. Qualifying new clients receive their first 4 hours of care complimentary. No pre-authorization delay for private pay or Aid & Attendance clients. No waiting list for standard care schedules.
No Place Like Home Care serves families across Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, from the affluent western townships to the Allentown and Bethlehem urban core, and into the surrounding Lehigh Valley communities.
In the western Lehigh County communities we prioritize for private-pay families, Center Valley, Upper Saucon Township, Lower Macungie Township, Macungie Borough, Upper Macungie Township, Breinigsville, and South Whitehall Township.
No Place Like Home Care offers the only nurse-led licensed agency model available. These are communities where families have invested in quality of life for decades. Our care reflects that standard.
In Allentown, we serve the West End, East Side, South Allentown, Fullerton, and Whitehall neighborhoods. In Bethlehem, we serve South Bethlehem, West Bethlehem, and the surrounding boroughs of Fountain Hill and Freemansburg. We also serve Emmaus, Macungie, Coopersburg, Coplay, Catasauqua, and Slatington.
No Place Like Home Care is based in Blandon, Pennsylvania, Berks County, and serves Berks, Lehigh, Lancaster, and Montgomery Counties throughout southeastern Pennsylvania.
To confirm service availability in your area, call or text (610) 492-6632 or visit noplacelikehomepa.com
Lehigh Valley Home Care is a clinical division of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) that provides medically-licensed skilled nursing and therapy under a physician's order. No Place Like Home Care is a separate, independent licensed agency providing non-medical in-home care, personal care, companionship, respite care, and cognitive support, arranged privately by the family without a doctor's referral or insurance pre-authorization. The two services are not affiliated and address different needs. Many families use both simultaneously: LVHN for medical management and No Place Like Home Care for daily non-medical support.
Licensed home care agencies in the Lehigh Valley charge between $28 and $38 per hour, depending on the agency and care type. No Place Like Home Care operates at the premium end of that range because every placement is backed by nursing oversight, W-2 employment, full liability coverage, and personal caregiver matching. Online platforms that quote $19 to $24 per hour for "home care" are referencing unvetted independent caregivers, not licensed agency employees.
Memory care facilities in Allentown average $5,693 to $6,802 per month, and Bethlehem-area facilities reach $6,802 to $8,500 per month. Assisted living in the region averages $4,399 to $5,063 per month. A family arranging 80 hours per month of No Place Like Home Care at $34 per hour pays approximately $2,720, less than half the cost of most memory care alternatives, with the parent remaining in their own home. For families who need part-time supervision rather than round-the-clock residential care, in-home care is almost always the more cost-effective option.
No. Traditional Medicare does not cover long-term custodial care, bathing assistance, companion care, meal preparation, memory care supervision, or personal care. Medicare only covers short-term, doctor-prescribed skilled home health care or inpatient rehabilitation following an acute medical event. Long-term in-home care and memory care facility costs are funded by long-term care insurance, VA Aid & Attendance benefits, or private pay. No Place Like Home Care accepts long-term care insurance and VA Aid & Attendance. We do not accept Medicare or Medicaid.
In Pennsylvania, a "Personal Care Home" is a licensed residential facility, a building where seniors live full-time and receive care from facility staff. It is not in-home care. In-home care from No Place Like Home Care means a caregiver comes to your parent's existing home on a scheduled basis. Your parent does not move. There is no admission process. The distinction matters because families searching for "personal care" often find residential facilities when they are actually looking for in-home alternatives.
No Place Like Home Care provides personal care (bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, mobility), companion care, cognitive and memory care support, respite care for family caregivers, live-in and overnight care, hospital-to-home recovery support, medication reminders, meal preparation, light housekeeping, and transportation assistance. All services are non-medical. Every care plan is designed by Kelly Tyrrell, RN before the first shift begins.
We can typically begin services within 24 to 72 hours for families in Lehigh County. The process begins with a phone call, followed by a nurse-led in-home assessment with Kelly Tyrrell, RN, followed by caregiver matching. Private-pay and Aid & Attendance clients do not require pre-authorization. Qualifying new clients receive their first 4 hours of care complimentary.
Yes. No Place Like Home Care serves families throughout western Lehigh County, including Center Valley, Upper Saucon Township, Lower Macungie Township, Macungie Borough, Upper Macungie Township, Breinigsville, South Whitehall Township, and Emmaus. We also serve Allentown, Bethlehem, Coopersburg, Coplay, Catasauqua, Slatington, and surrounding communities throughout Lehigh County.
Yes to both. Long-term care insurance from all major carriers is accepted, we bill LTCI insurers directly. VA Aid & Attendance pension benefits can be used to pay for No Place Like Home Care directly; no VA contract is required. In 2026, Aid & Attendance benefits provide up to $2,300 per month for a qualifying veteran and up to $1,153 per month for a qualifying surviving spouse. We do not accept Medicare or Medicaid.
Every caregiver assignment is personally reviewed before placement is confirmed. We match on health condition experience, schedule compatibility, personality fit, and communication style. A client in Macungie with early-stage dementia receives a caregiver with specific cognitive care training. A client in Center Valley who needs early-morning personal care receives a caregiver with early-shift experience. If a caregiver match is not working, we make a change, quickly, without requiring a family to navigate a bureaucratic process.
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