24-Hour Home Care
in Negombo.
24-hour home care in Negombo means a vetted caregiver is in your parent's home at every hour. BetterHands places live-in caregivers and overnight nurses across Negombo and the wider airport corridor. Half our calls here come from sons and daughters abroad. You can arrange all of it without flying home.
Arrange everything from abroad. You approve the match before anyone starts.
Why home care in Negombo is often arranged from abroad.
Few towns in Sri Lanka have sent as many people overseas as Negombo. Families here have children in Italy, in the Gulf, and increasingly further afield.
That shapes who calls us. The person arranging care is frequently not in the house. They are not even in the country.
Money is rarely the obstacle in these households. Remittances have often been arriving for years. The obstacle is distance, and the particular helplessness that comes with it.
A neighbour reports that your mother fell last week. Nobody mentioned it at the time. You are eight thousand kilometres away, on a work visa, and the next affordable flight is in March.
Meanwhile the parent insists everything is fine. It usually is not. However, they will not say so to a child who already sounds worried on the phone.
Home care closes that gap. Someone trained is in the house, and someone independent reports what is actually happening.
Caring for Negombo parents across a time difference.
We built the process around families who cannot be present. Therefore nothing important depends on you being in the room.
The assessment runs over video, at a time that works in your zone. You see the caregiver's background before approving them. Nobody enters the house until you say yes.
Then the daily welfare note arrives. It covers how your parent slept, what they ate, and whether medication was taken. As a result, you stop relying on a parent who minimises everything.
Invoicing goes to you directly. Relatives in Negombo are never asked to front costs or chase paperwork on your behalf.
Negombo hospital care and the airport corridor.
Negombo District General Hospital serves the town and the coastal belt around it. It is where most local admissions and discharges happen.
We ask families for the expected discharge date rather than the actual one. Given a few days, assessment and background verification run alongside the remaining ward stay.
Negombo also sits beside Bandaranaike International Airport. For overseas families that proximity is genuinely useful, because a parent here is reachable within an hour of landing.
It cuts the other way too. Many adult children fly in for a fortnight, stabilise things, and then leave again. Continuous cover is what holds the arrangement together between those visits.
Katunayake and Seeduwa fall inside the same corridor. Consequently we treat the whole stretch as one service area, at one rate.
Arranging care before you fly back
- Book the video assessment while you are still in Negombo, or after you land home.
- Meet the matched caregiver before your flight, if the timing allows.
- Overlap a few days, so handover happens with you present.
- Daily welfare notes continue once you have gone.
- Change or replace the caregiver at any time, at no cost.
Quick answers for Negombo families.
The three questions Negombo families ask about home care before anything else.
Can I set this up without flying home?
Yes. The assessment runs over video at a time that suits your zone. You review the caregiver match, approve it, and care begins. Daily welfare notes follow from our coordinator, so you know how the night went before your own workday starts.
What does 24-hour home care in Negombo include?
A trained caregiver is present in the home around the clock. Bathing, dressing, mobility, meals and medication reminders are all covered. Nursing-level care adds wound dressing, catheter management and vitals monitoring. Overnight presence is included rather than billed as an extra shift.
How quickly can care start in Negombo?
Typically 24 to 48 hours from your first call. Where you share an expected hospital discharge date in advance, cover can begin the same day your parent comes home. Assessment, matching and background checks run while the ward stay continues.
What home care in Negombo can cover.
Most families do not arrive knowing which level of home care they need. That is what the free assessment is for. These are the five we place most often, and cover moves between them as needs change.
Home Nursing in Negombo
Clinical care at home from a nursing assistant or professional nurse. Wound dressing, catheter and tube care, injections, vitals and medication administration. Families abroad often step up to this level after a hospital stay, because it removes the need for repeat outpatient trips.
Home Nursing Care Sri Lanka
Personal Care in Negombo
Daily hands-on support with bathing, dressing, toileting, mobility and feeding. Dignity matters more here than anywhere. Parents frequently downplay this need on the phone, so it tends to surface at the assessment rather than in the first conversation.
Personal Care at Home Sri Lanka
Elderly Care in Negombo
Steady daily support for an ageing parent who is coping, but should not cope alone. Supervision, medication reminders, meals and companionship through the day. This is the level most overseas families start with, then adjust as needs change.
Elderly Care Services Sri Lanka
Companion Care in Negombo
Conversation, company and light assistance for a parent living alone. Loneliness is the quiet problem in households where the children have emigrated. A companion fills the hours and notices early when something changes.
Companion Care Services Sri Lanka
Home Care Services in Negombo
Unsure which level of home care fits? Start here. The free assessment establishes what your parent needs now, and what they will likely need in six months. Cover then steps up or down without you restarting the search.
Home Care Services Sri LankaWhere we place caregivers around Negombo.
Negombo runs along the coast, and the town blends into the airport corridor without a clear break.
For example, a family in Seeduwa or Katunayake is closer to Negombo District General Hospital than to anything in Colombo.
We treat the whole stretch as one service area. The daily rate is identical throughout, because there is no travel supplement and no district-based variation.
If your parent's address sits just outside this list, ask anyway. Coverage follows caregiver availability, not a drawn boundary.
How 24-hour care is arranged in Negombo.
Five steps from your first call to home care starting in the house. Most families complete them inside 72 hours, wherever in the world they are calling from.
Free assessment, by video or at home
Overseas families join by video at a time that suits their zone. Local families get a coordinator at the door in Negombo. Either way it takes 15 to 20 minutes.
Caregiver matched in hours
We work through 1,000+ profiles across 50+ factors. Clinical background, Sinhala, Tamil or English fluency, schedule fit, and experience with stroke, dementia or post-surgical recovery.
You approve before anyone starts
The match is sent to you with full background detail. Nobody enters your parent's home until you have said yes. This matters most when you cannot be there in person.
Care begins, with daily notes
Your caregiver starts. Our coordinator sends daily welfare notes through the 14-day trial, so you wake up already knowing how the night went.
72-hour guarantee, no questions
If the match is not right at any point, we arrange a replacement at zero cost. Our 96% first-match rate makes this rare. The guarantee holds regardless.
Families who trusted us with home care.
“Our mother lives alone in Wellawatte while we work overseas. Her BetterHands companion visits daily and calls us every week. For the first time in years, we are not constantly worried.”
Nimal & Kumari J.
Wellawatte, Colombo 06
“My father has early dementia and the BetterHands companion in Battaramulla keeps him engaged with chess and morning walks. The consistency of the same companion every day has made a real difference to his mood.”
Shirani P.
Battaramulla
“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
24-hour home care in Negombo — your questions.
Yes, and many Negombo families do. The free assessment runs over video, so you attend from Italy, Rome, Milan, the Gulf or anywhere else. You approve the caregiver match before anyone starts. After that you receive daily welfare notes from our coordinator. You do not need to fly home to set it up.
24-hour home care in Negombo 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 same daily rate applies day, night, or both. There is no travel supplement for Negombo or the airport corridor.
Payment is usually handled by the family member overseas, and we invoice directly. Relatives in Negombo are not asked to front the cost or chase receipts. Everything is documented, so siblings in different countries can see the same records. That transparency avoids a lot of friction later.
We place caregivers across Negombo town and the surrounding coastal belt. That includes Katunayake, Seeduwa, Kochchikade, Kattuwa, Ettukala, Dalupotha and Kimbulapitiya. Coverage extends inland to Ja-Ela and Andiambalama. If you sit just outside these areas, ask anyway — availability follows our caregiver roster.
Yes. Give us the expected discharge date and we work backwards from it. Assessment, caregiver matching and background verification all run while your parent is still on the ward. Cover then begins the day they come home, rather than a week afterwards.
We match for language before anything else. Sinhala, Tamil and English speakers are all on our roster. For Negombo we are asked most often for Sinhala with working English, so an overseas son or daughter can speak to the caregiver directly. Tell us your preference at the assessment.
Home care in other areas we cover.
Negombo 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. Live-in and overnight cover cost the same as daytime care, in Negombo exactly as in Colombo.
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 Negombo.
Tell us about your parent, wherever you are calling from. We will match a vetted live-in caregiver or overnight nurse within 72 hours — and you approve them before anyone starts.
1,000+
Caregiver profiles
96%
First-match success
Trained
Caregiver training
72
Hours to placement