Light Housekeeping

Homemaking Services in Phoenix Metropolitan Area

This is usually an area where everyone gets confused, caregivers as well as clients. Affordable Home Senior Care Services in Phoenix Scottsdale and Surrounding Arizona Cities. As the name implies, the services performed are light. Commonly indoors, these are spaces frequently used by your loved ones and hence the need to be kept clean and in a state of decorum to ensure your surroundings are safe and healthy. Usually, these services will form part of your care plan so nothing is left for interpretation. Nevertheless, we are here for you. We encourage our clients to contact us in the event that something outside the daily chores of the caregiver’s duties needs to be handled. We will always do our best to accommodate you. Light housekeeping is restricted to the client and the client’s living space alone and is not intended to address the needs of other household members.

Light housekeeping duties include:

• Tidying the general living space
• Clearing away dishes after meals
• Removing expired food from the refrigerator
• Maintenance-level cleaning of toilet
• Drawing baths and setting out towels
• Hang up towels and washcloths to dry or place in laundry
• Wiping down bathroom countertops, mirrors, sinks, and shower/tub after bathing
• Cleaning sink, bathtub, and toilet after use
• Vacuuming and sweeping of general living space and walkways
• Wiping down spills and sanitizing surfaces
• Changing bed linens
• Dusting off surfaces
• Watering plants
• Tending to house plant
• Taking out the trash
• Doing the laundry (machine washing, drying, folding, putting back into drawers, hanging up)
• Wipe down of kitchen counters and other kitchen surfaces
• Gathering trash and taking trash to the collection spot
• Cleaning up clutter
• Sweeping and vacuuming floors
• Organizing closets and drawers
• If a toileting accident occurs, cleaning immediate area as needed

Light housekeeping DO NOT include:

• Washing windows
• Moving or rearranging heavy furniture
• Deep cleaning or shampooing carpets or scrubbing floors
• Mowing the lawn
• Performing repairs
• Providing services and care for any other person other than the client
• Cleaning excessive toilet-area matter
• Scrubbing of shower/ tub