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Rooted in Santa Barbara, we’re more than a service—we’re your neighbors and trusted care partners. With reliable support and open communication, we bring families the peace of mind they deserve.
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Compassionate & Personalized Care

At Love and Care, we go beyond assistance—we build meaningful connections. Our caregivers provide personalized, dignified, and heartfelt support, ensuring seniors feel valued and families feel at ease.

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Peace of Mind & Reliable Support

Caring for a loved one is challenging, but you’re not alone. We offer 24/7 reliable care, seamless scheduling, and compassionate service, ensuring comfort, safety, and true peace of mind.
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Humanized & Compassionate Care

At Love and Care, we provide care that builds meaningful relationships, emphasizing dignity and empathy. Our caregivers create genuine connections, ensuring seniors feel truly valued, and families experience real peace of mind.

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Locally Focused & Community-Driven

As a Santa Barbara-based organization, Love and Care offers personalized, approachable, and community-rooted care. We aren’t just caregivers—we’re neighbors invested in the well-being of your loved ones.

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Personalized & Comprehensive Care Plans

Our caregivers offer compassionate, tailored assistance in personal care, daily activities, mobility, medication reminders, transportation, meal preparation, and overnight supervision, ensuring comfort, independence, and dignity.

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Trained, Certified & Fully Compliant Caregivers

Love and Care is a state-licensed Home Care Organization, meeting all California Department of Social Services (CDSS) standards . Our caregivers undergo rigorous training in infection control, dementia care, daily living activities, emergency procedures, and elder abuse reporting . As mandated reporters , they’re specially trained to identify, respond to, and prevent elder abuse, guaranteeing care that’s professional, compassionate, and safe.

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Technology-Driven Reliability & Efficiency

Our operations leverage cutting-edge AI-enhanced scheduling and attendance tracking, ensuring consistent, transparent, and reliable care. This technology-driven approach means your loved ones receive punctual, dependable support tailored to their unique needs.
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Protected & Insured Operations

Safety and accountability are paramount. Love and Care maintains comprehensive liability insurance and workers’ compensation coverage , and performs thorough fingerprint-based background checks on every caregiver. Our meticulous processes provide peace of mind through security, trust, and protection.

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Compassion Delivered

We’ve provided 401,578 hours of personalized caregiving—each hour a “moment of truth” filled with compassion, respect, and meaningful connections.

Giving Back

We’ve proudly contributed 215 hours of free caregiving to the Alzheimer and Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara , demonstrating our deep commitment to the local community.

Lasting Care

Our caregivers show outstanding retention, some delivering over 14,500 hours of dedicated care, staying with Love and Care for up to 7 years and offering consistent, trusted relationships.

Trusted Reliability

We consistently maintain an impressive 95% caregiver punctuality rate and 99% attendance , minimizing stress for families and ensuring reliable, dependable care every day.

Always Here

Love and Care provides around-the-clock caregiving , ready to respond immediately to emergencies and client needs 24/7, 365 days a year , ensuring continuous peace of mind for families.

Care Excellence

Each caregiver completes over 30 hours of annual training , covering critical caregiving skills including dementia care, elder-abuse prevention, and advanced personal care techniques, guaranteeing the highest quality care standards.

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Stories of Care and Confidence

Real experiences from those who trust us for their health and well-being.

Janet Graham

“My mother had Alzheimers and Love and Care cared for my mother for nearly two years… first at home and later in a memory care facility. Love and Care caregivers both loved 

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Gail Michelson

II have been riding locally and to Los Angeles with Love and Care for serveral months now… I can not imagine a better service! they are punctual, caring, kind responsible.

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David Mares

“I dont have enough words to express for the lovely and compassionate care that all the girls from Love and Care provided to my dad. He was in the need of 24 hrs care 

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Patricia Standford

“Thank you for helping not only our mother, Patricia, for also in some many ways as we have struggled to navigate together the trouble waters of her last 18 months. 

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Phyllis Marie Nielsen

At the end of June 2022 my wife Phyllis was about to be released from Cottage Hospital. Her health had been declining prior and it was decided that Home Care beyond what 

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Frequently asked questions

Find answers to common questions and learn more about our services and how we can support your health journey.

1. Does Love and Care assist with rehabilitation and hospital discharge after an accident?

Yes, Love and Care is licensed and experienced in assisting clients immediately following hospital discharge, including after accidents or surgeries. We offer dedicated 24/7 support as needed during rehabilitation, and we’re widely known and regularly recommended by hospitals throughout Santa Barbara.

Love and Care is fully licensed by the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) , ensuring caregiving services are regulated, safe, and reliable. Unlike private caregiving—which lacks formal oversight, proper background screening, and regulated training—we offer structured accountability, rigorous training standards, and comprehensive protections, providing true peace of mind.

Yes, Love and Care is a fully licensed home care provider under the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) , meeting all state standards and requirements for caregiving services (License #: 424700029).

Our caregivers complete over 30 hours of annual training , covering dementia care, elder abuse reporting, activities of daily living, safety procedures, and emergency response. This ensures care is consistently delivered with professionalism, compassion, and compliance.

Absolutely. All caregivers undergo mandatory fingerprint-based background checks and thorough reference verification as required by California law, ensuring the safety and trustworthiness of each caregiver.

Love and Care assists families by helping them understand and navigate their Long-Term Care Insurance policies. While families remain responsible for direct payment to Love and Care, we simplify reimbursement by preparing and submitting required documentation—such as invoices, care notes, and relevant records—to your Long-Term Care Insurance provider.

Yes, Love and Care provides flexible overnight and 24/7 caregiving services every day of the year , ensuring your loved ones receive reliable and professional support exactly when it’s needed.

At Love and Care, our goal is to ensure consistency by assigning the same caregiver whenever possible, fostering meaningful and familiar relationships. However, if your regular caregiver is unavailable, our trained and certified team ensures a reliable backup caregiver is always ready, guaranteeing continuous and uninterrupted care.

Love and Care is known in the community for its rapid and responsive care. Our dedicated care manager immediately assesses client needs, prepares personalized care plans, and swiftly matches caregivers—often within hours of discharge. We’re well-known and frequently recommended by hospitals across Santa Barbara, ensuring prompt and reliable assistance when you need it most.

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Phyllis Marie Nielsen

- Phyllis Marie Nielsen

“At the end of June 2022 my wife Phyllis was about to be released from Cottage Hospital. Her health had been declining prior and it was decided that Home Care beyond what I could provide would be neccesary. The services we decided upon was Love and Care. We met with the care manager, who heads up the service at our home to discuss the services and caregivers. The services began the next morning at 8am and continue daily care in 12 hours shift until Phyllis passing on Feb 2023. I have nothing but praise for Love and Care and the Caregivers that made Phyl’s Life and mine as confortable and meaningful as was possible. Primary Caregivers like Lucy, Samantha and Norma became more like family members. Life, when caregiving becomes neccesary, can be quite challenging. Love and Care was what Phyl and I needed and i will be forever thankful they were there.”

Gail Michelson

- Gail Michelson

II have been riding locally and to Los Angeles with Love and Care for serveral months now… I can not imagine a better service! they are punctual, caring, kind responsible.

There people are definetly angels, they go way beyong getting you to where you need to go (although, they definitely do that!)

I truly cannot say enough good about they certinaly have been a blessing to me!”
Gail Michelson

Janet Graham

Janet Graham

“My mother had Alzheimers and Love and Care cared for my mother for nearly two years… first at home and later in a memory care facility. Love and Care caregivers both loved my mother and helped her retain her dignity, two things for which i will always be grateful.”

Patricia Standford

Patricia Standford

“Thank you for helping not only our mother, Patricia, for also in some many ways as we have struggled to navigate together the trouble waters of her last 18 months. You have excelled at both supervising the caregivers and providing such tender and skilfull, observant care. Your many ways of sharing your experience and observations to discuss solutions to the many complicated staffing and team work issues we faced have been invaluable, in our steering our mothers course to her final rest. We have but to regrets: that we did not find Love and Care sooner, and the team didnt have the opportunity of knowing our mother when she was in all ways herself – both so that the caregivers and my mother have enjoyed each others company”

David Mares

- David Mares

“I dont have enough words to express for the lovely and compassionate care that all the girls from Love and Care provided to my dad. He was in the need of 24 hrs care and LnC caregivers were always there to support and help. Brining happiness, empathy and love during the last days of life of my dad is for what i always be grateful.”