24-Hour Home Care
in Maharagama.
24-hour home care in Maharagama means someone trained is in the house at every hour. BetterHands places live-in caregivers and home nurses across Maharagama, Navinna, Pannipitiya and Kottawa — with particular experience of households working around a long course of hospital treatment.
Your hospital team leads the treatment. We handle everything around it.
Why families in Maharagama arrange care at home.
Maharagama is where the country comes for cancer treatment. Apeksha Hospital sits at the centre of the town, and much of local life has arranged itself around it.
So the households we work with here are often not managing old age. They are managing a treatment schedule.
Those schedules have a rhythm. A cycle, then a fortnight where strength drains away, then a slow climb back just as the next one arrives.
The hard days happen at home, not on a ward. Nausea, exhaustion, a fever at two in the morning that has to be judged quickly.
Meanwhile a daughter has taken leave she cannot afford, and is doing night after night alone. However willing she is, that is not sustainable for six months.
Home care is what makes the schedule survivable — for the patient, and for whoever has been quietly holding everything together.
What we do, and what your hospital does.
Treatment belongs to your consultant team. Decisions, chemotherapy and specialist care sit with them, and nothing we do displaces that.
Our nurses work within their own scope — vitals, medication administration, wound and dressing care — and follow the instructions sent home with you.
Everything else is where home care earns its place. Washing, meals that can be kept down, clean surroundings, rest, and someone awake overnight.
Therefore the first thing we ask for is your hospital's guidance. Where it differs from anything general we would do, theirs wins.
Staying near Apeksha for a course of treatment.
A great many families in Maharagama are not from Maharagama. They have taken a place near the hospital for the length of a treatment course.
That is an unusual arrangement, and it needs home care that fits it. We place caregivers at a temporary address as readily as a permanent one.
Tell us roughly how long you expect to stay. Consequently we can plan the roster around the treatment calendar rather than an open-ended commitment.
Cover can also move with you. If treatment finishes and you return home to another district, we look at whether we can continue there.
What to tell us at the assessment
- The treatment schedule, and which days are usually hardest.
- Any precautions your hospital team has asked you to follow.
- Whether the address is permanent or taken for the treatment period.
- Who in the family is currently doing the nights.
- Whether you want continuous cover or only the difficult fortnight.
Quick answers for Maharagama families.
The three things Maharagama families ask about home care first when treatment is involved.
What does a caregiver actually do between treatment cycles?
The unglamorous, essential things. Washing, dressing, meals someone can keep down, clean surroundings, and being awake at night when nausea or fever arrives. Company matters as much. The days after a cycle are long, and most of them are spent at home.
Do you handle the medical side, or does the hospital?
The hospital does. Treatment decisions, chemotherapy and specialist care stay entirely with your consultant team. Our nurses work within their own scope — vitals, wound care, medication administration — and follow the instructions your hospital sends home with you.
How quickly can cover start in Maharagama?
Usually 24 to 48 hours from your first call. If you know a discharge or a cycle date in advance, we can have someone in place for the day you get home. Assessment and background checks run in parallel rather than one after another.
What home care in Maharagama can cover.
Households here rarely need one fixed level of home care for long. The assessment sets a starting point, and cover moves with the treatment calendar rather than against it.
Home Nursing in Maharagama
A nursing assistant or professional nurse working in the home. Vitals, medication administration, wound and dressing care, catheter and tube management. For households managing a long treatment course, this removes a great many trips back to a clinic.
Home Nursing Care Sri Lanka
Personal Care in Maharagama
Washing, dressing, toileting, moving safely, eating. When strength drops away for a fortnight at a time, these are the tasks that quietly become impossible. Having them handled without fuss is most of what recovery at home really needs.
Personal Care at Home Sri Lanka
Elderly Care in Maharagama
Ongoing daily support for an ageing parent, whether or not treatment is involved. Supervision, medication reminders, meals and steady company. Many Maharagama families start here and step cover up only when something changes.
Elderly Care Services Sri Lanka
Companion Care in Maharagama
Someone present through the long, quiet hours. Illness isolates people faster than almost anything else, and visitors thin out once the first few weeks pass. A companion is often what keeps morale from going the same way.
Companion Care Services Sri Lanka
Home Care Services in Maharagama
Sometimes the person who needs help is the one giving it. Families caring through a long illness reach exhaustion quietly and late. Respite cover — a few days, or nights only — exists precisely for that, and asking for it is not a failure.
Home Care Services Sri LankaWhere we place caregivers around Maharagama.
Maharagama sits along High Level Road, and the suburbs either side of it run together without a clear break.
For example, a family in Navinna or Pannipitiya is minutes from the hospital, which is exactly why so many treatment-period addresses are found there.
We treat the corridor as one service area, at one rate. There is no travel supplement and no district-based variation.
Temporary addresses are covered on the same terms as permanent ones. Just tell us which it is when you call.
How 24-hour care is arranged in Maharagama.
Five steps, and most families get through them inside 72 hours — including those arranging home care mid-treatment.
Free assessment, at home or by video
A coordinator visits your Maharagama home to understand the routine, the treatment schedule and what the hard days look like. Overseas relatives join by video.
Matched to the situation, not just the slot
We work through 1,000+ profiles across 50+ factors — clinical background, language, temperament, and whether someone is genuinely comfortable in a household under strain.
48-hour background verification
References, credentials and a practical skills assessment are cleared inside 48 hours. Nobody reaches your door before passing that stage, urgent placements included.
Care begins, with daily notes
Welfare notes reach you every day through the 14-day trial. If something is not working, say so and it is dealt with the same day rather than at the end of the week.
72-hour guarantee, no questions
A replacement costs nothing, at any stage, for any reason. We match correctly first time in 96% of placements, and the guarantee is written down so you never have to rely on that.
Families who trusted us with home care.
“The wound care provided for my mother's post-surgical recovery was exceptional. The nurse was highly skilled and always explained everything clearly. I would recommend BetterHands without hesitation.”
Dr. Tharanga S.
Colombo 05
“After my mother's discharge from Nawaloka, the BetterHands nurse handled her wound care and monitoring at our Dehiwala home flawlessly. Their coordination with the hospital made a stressful time so much easier.”
Ruwan F.
Dehiwala
“BetterHands matched my mother in Rajagiriya with a caregiver who speaks Tamil and understands her routines. The personal care has been dignified and dependable from day one.”
Fathima R.
Rajagiriya
24-hour home care in Maharagama — your questions.
Yes, at home and between hospital visits. A caregiver manages hygiene, meals, rest, medication reminders and company through the difficult days after each cycle. A nurse-level placement adds vitals, wound care and medication administration. Treatment itself stays entirely with your hospital team, and we work around their instructions rather than across them.
24-hour home care in Maharagama starts at LKR 4,500 per day with a caregiver. A professional nurse is LKR 9,000 per day. Both follow a one-time annual registration fee of LKR 20,000. The rate is the same whether cover runs through the day, the night, or both.
Yes. Families often take a rented place near the hospital for the length of a treatment course. We can place a caregiver at that address rather than a permanent home. Tell us how long you expect to stay so we can plan the placement around it.
We brief the caregiver on precautions before placement, and match someone comfortable working to them. That covers hand hygiene, food handling, keeping visitors managed, and watching for early signs of fever. Where your hospital team has given specific instructions, those take priority over anything general we would otherwise do.
We cover Maharagama town and the High Level Road corridor around it. That includes Navinna, Wijerama, Pannipitiya, Kottawa, Depanama, Mirihana, Boralesgamuwa and Piliyandala. Coverage extends to Nugegoda, Thalawathugoda and Homagama. If you are just outside, ask anyway.
Yes. Short placements around a treatment cycle or a recovery period are common, and there is no minimum term beyond the membership year. Many families step cover up during the hard fortnight and down again afterwards. Tell us the pattern and we plan the roster around it.
Home care in other areas we cover.
Maharagama is one of the areas we cover for home care across the Western Province. For how round-the-clock home care works nationally, see 24-Hour Home Care Sri Lanka.
Transparent pricing
Round-the-clock care, priced simply.
One annual membership covers coordination, payroll, and unlimited caregiver replacements. After that you pay a flat daily rate — and cover can step up for a hard fortnight and down again afterwards without renegotiating anything.
BetterHands Annual Membership
LKR 20,000
One-time annual registration fee
- Unlimited caregiver replacements at no additional cost if you are not satisfied
- Payroll management and caregiver administration
- Ongoing coordination and support from the BetterHands team
- Access to all services covered under the BetterHands membership
Step two — daily service rates
Duties below are what each role normally provides — your care plan is tailored during the free assessment.
Caregiver
Daily living support and companionship
LKR 4,500/day
Most families start here — a parent who is managing, but should not be alone all day.
- Friendly conversation and companionship
- Bathing and personal care assistance (if required)
- Medication reminders and general supervision
- Simple meals and refreshments
- Short walks and light activities (if appropriate)
- Day-to-day assistance and emotional support
Nursing Assistant
Personal care plus basic clinical support
LKR 6,000/day
Common where diabetes, blood pressure or early-stage dementia needs daily monitoring.
- Everything in the caregiver role
- Vital signs monitoring (BP, blood sugar, SpO₂)
- Medication reminders and administration support
- Basic wound and continence care
Professional Nurse
Complex medical and post-operative needs
LKR 9,000/day
Usually after a hospital discharge, a stroke, or where wounds and IV care are involved.
- Everything in the nursing assistant role
- PHSRC-registered clinical nursing
- Wound care, injections, and IV therapy
- Catheter, NG tube, and post-operative care
Daily rates are charged in addition to the one-time annual registration fee of LKR 20,000. The same daily rates apply to day care, night care and live-in support — no shift premiums, no travel supplements for any district. Hospital bystander cover is priced by shift length instead — see that service page for its packages. A free care assessment is provided before any commitment.
A one-way transfer for the caregiver is arranged at the start of placement.
Arrange 24-hour home care
in Maharagama.
Tell us about the treatment schedule and what the hard days look like. We will match a vetted caregiver or home nurse within 72 hours — permanent address or temporary.
1,000+
Caregiver profiles
96%
First-match success
Trained
Caregiver training
72
Hours to placement