Elderly Care Services in
Kotte.
Elderly care services in Kotte hold the day together while your household is at work — tablets on time, a cooked lunch, gentle movement and company. BetterHands places daytime caregivers across Kotte, Nawala, Rajagiriya and Battaramulla from LKR 4,500/day.
Narahenpita-Nawala Road — most Kotte homes are under twenty minutes away.
Why elderly care in Kotte is a weekday problem.
Kotte is where the ministries sit, and the households reflect it. Two working adults, often three, all out of the gate before eight.
The houses here are comfortable. Nobody is short of anything. However, between seven in the morning and seven at night, nobody is actually in charge of the day.
Ageing parents in these homes are usually independent-minded and reluctant to be fussed over. Therefore they say the day went fine, and mostly it did.
What slips is quieter. A dose taken twice because the first was forgotten. Lunch reduced to tea and biscuits. A whole day without a proper conversation.
None of that shows up in a phone call. It shows up six months later, as a fall, a hospital admission, or a parent who has simply become smaller.
Elderly care in Kotte mostly means putting one reliable adult in the house during the hours the family cannot be there.
The commonest reason families call
Four specialists, one parent, and nobody holding the list.
Sri Jayewardenepura General runs clinics across most specialities, and a parent in their eighties may be under three or four of them. Each adjusts something. Nobody sees the whole prescription except the family, and the family is at work.
One list, kept current
Every tablet, dose and timing on a single sheet in the house. When a specialist changes something, it is amended that day rather than remembered incorrectly a fortnight later.
Prompted at the hour, not the meal
Several drugs common in this age group depend on timing rather than food. The caregiver works to the clock, and logs anything refused or missed so a pattern is visible.
Reported before you get home
A short note each evening covering doses, meals, movement and mood. You read it on the way back from the office instead of interrogating a tired parent at nine.
Escalated when it matters
A caregiver who sees the same person daily notices drift early. Confusion, swelling or a new tremor gets flagged to you and our coordinators rather than waiting for the next clinic.
What a caregiver in Kotte actually does all day.
Families here often expect a nurse sitting formally in a corner. In practice a good day looks much more ordinary than that.
The caregiver arrives as the house empties, cooks something proper, and keeps your parent moving enough that the afternoon does not become a nap.
Because they see the same person every weekday, they notice the things a visitor would miss. For example, a walk that has become slower over a fortnight.
- Medication prompted, logged and reconciled after every clinic
- Breakfast and lunch cooked to the diet the doctor set
- Walking, seated exercise and safe movement around the house
- Company, conversation, cards, radio and correspondence
- Accompaniment to Sri Jayewardenepura General and private clinics
- A written handover note before the caregiver leaves
Straight answers
Elderly care in Kotte, in brief.
What do elderly care services in Kotte include?
A caregiver spends the working day with your parent. Medication prompted and logged, breakfast and lunch cooked, gentle movement, company, and accompaniment to clinics. The point is a routine that holds together on its own, whatever time you get home.
Why do Kotte families usually call?
Rarely a crisis. Far more often it is a slow realisation that nobody is actually overseeing the day — tablets are guessed at, lunch is skipped, and the only real check-in happens at night when everyone is tired.
Is a nurse needed, or is a caregiver enough?
A trained caregiver covers prompting, meals, mobility and company, which suits most households here. A professional nurse is warranted where injections, wound care or genuine administration of doses are involved. The assessment settles which, at no cost.
What we provide
Elderly care services for Kotte families.
Each level below is available across the Kotte catchment. Households here usually begin with one and widen it within the first year.
Medication Management
One current list, doses at the right hour, refills ordered before they run out, and every change from a clinic visit written down. This is where most Kotte arrangements begin.
Medication Management Sri Lanka
Elderly Care
The full daytime picture rather than one task. Meals, movement, supervision and conversation, adjusted as your parent needs more or less across the year.
Elderly Care Services Sri Lanka
Home Nursing
Where prompting is no longer enough. Injections, wound dressing, catheter care and vitals, delivered by a qualified nurse in the house rather than at a clinic.
Home Nursing Care Sri Lanka
Personal Care
Bathing, dressing, toileting and getting about the house. Families often add this quietly, months after starting, once a parent stops managing the bathroom alone.
Personal Care at Home Sri Lanka
Companion Care
For a parent who is physically fine but alone all day. Conversation, an outing, a hand with correspondence. Cheaper than full care, and often the right first step.
Companion Care Services Sri LankaWhere we serve
Elderly caregivers across the Kotte catchment.
Our registered office sits on Narahenpita-Nawala Road, inside Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte itself. Coordinators here are a short drive from most homes, which is why assessments in this catchment are usually arranged within the same week.
How it works
From first call to a routine that holds.
A coordinator comes to the house
From our Narahenpita-Nawala Road office, usually the same week. We look at the prescriptions, the kitchen and the stairs, and ask what an ordinary Tuesday looks like.
The medication picture gets untangled
Everything currently being taken is written into one list, including whatever a relative brought back from abroad. Duplicates and gaps tend to surface at this stage.
Two or three caregivers shortlisted
Chosen for the language spoken at home, the temperament your parent will tolerate, and whichever clinical training the prescription list genuinely warrants.
A working fortnight to tune it
Hours, meals and prompt timings almost always move once. Your coordinator reads the daily notes and rings you if the record shows something you would not spot from home.
Swap the match at any point
A replacement costs nothing and is arranged under the written 72-hour guarantee. Say the word — no explanation required, and the guarantee does not lapse after the first month.
Family stories
Families in and around Kotte.
“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
“After my father's heart surgery at Lanka Hospitals, the nursing team from BetterHands provided exceptional post-operative care at home. They were thorough, kind, and always on time.”
Roshan & Dilini P.
Nugegoda
“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
FAQs
Elderly care services in Kotte — questions families ask.
Elderly care in Kotte starts at LKR 4,500 per day with a trained caregiver. Where doses must be administered rather than prompted, a professional nurse is LKR 9,000 per day. A one-time annual registration fee of LKR 20,000 applies once. Nawala, Rajagiriya and Battaramulla carry no travel supplement.
Often yes, and it need not be framed as taking over. A caregiver can lay the day out, prompt at the right hours and simply notice what gets missed. Most people accept that far more easily than a blister pack handed to them by their own children.
Yes, and in Kotte that is frequently the reason families call. Where cardiology, diabetes and orthopaedics each adjust something, the caregiver maintains one current list, notes every change, and flags any interaction question for you to raise at the next appointment.
Yes. Those three sit inside our normal Kotte catchment, along with Pita Kotte, Ethul Kotte, Welikada and Koswatta. Our office is on Narahenpita-Nawala Road, so coordinators reach most of these homes in under twenty minutes.
The caregiver calls you first, then our coordination line, which is staffed through working hours. Where the situation needs a doctor, Sri Jayewardenepura General is close. You are told what is happening while it happens, not afterwards.
Yes. Start and finish times are set at the assessment and can shift with notice. Many Kotte families run longer hours on office days and shorter ones when someone works from home. The daily rate is unchanged either way.
Standards we work to
Regulation and guidance.
Need the nights covered as well?
Daytime cover suits a parent who is safe alone at night. Where that is no longer true — wandering, falls after dark, or a condition that needs watching — the 24-hour page for Kotte is the better starting point.
Transparent pricing
Membership first, then simple daily rates.
One annual membership covers coordination, payroll, and unlimited caregiver replacements. After that you pay a flat daily rate for the level of care you need.
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.
Arrange elderly care
in Kotte.
Bring us the prescription list and a description of an ordinary weekday. We will match a vetted daytime caregiver within 72 hours, in writing.
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