For families looking for help at home
Respite care at home, without an hour of explaining first
Respite care at home is a professional stepping in for an afternoon a week or a whole weekend so the person carrying the care can rest. On ExpressAgain the respite professional works from the day plan and the shift checklists the family already wrote, so the handover is reading, not an hour of explaining.
What is already built
Respite Care
Scheduled weekly relief or occasional full days, overnight respite so the family finally sleeps, professionals who work straight from the shared care plan, and the same logging and updates as every other shift.
Where it lives: Marketplace, Respite Care · Read how it works
The day plan
The patient's real day in time blocks, written once by the family: each block with its steps, a how-to video and a checklist, read as a story for a new sitter's first day or printed as a timeline. The professional ticks each step and the log keeps who did it and when.
Where it lives: The day plan page · Read how it works
Shift checklists
The family writes the start-of-shift and end-of-shift lists; a shift that gives medication pins that item first, flagged rows can need a photo before they count, and a day with required items missing is held for the family's review, never unpaid.
Where it lives: Home Team management, Shift checklists · Read how it works
Home Team management
Each person's rate and pay period, the weekly schedule with recurring slots, one-off shifts and open shifts to offer, this week's clocks, the invoices to approve and pay, and the shift checklists the family writes.
Where it lives: Home Team management page · Read how it works
Today: respite as a service on the request, the day plan to read instead of explain, and checklists that make the handover the same every time.
How it works
Post a care request on the Marketplace: your name, email and phone, the ZIP code where care happens, the type of care, what you will pay, the tasks, a credential if one is needed, when, and a few lines about the patient. Sending it creates your free ExpressAgain account so you can track it.
The professionals near you whose rate for your distance, tasks, credential and travel limit fit are matched the moment the request is saved and emailed at once; each answer comes straight to your inbox with the professional's message and contact details.
Choose the person: send the questionnaire from Find a team member, agree the rate, sign the agreement, and the professional joins My Home Team and works from the family's shared care plan, the day plan and the shift checklists.
Questions people ask
Is it free to start?
Yes. There is no charge to post a care request, and sending it creates your free ExpressAgain account so you can track it under Your care requests on Marketplace Home. Free is where everyone starts, the Pricing page shows the plans side by side, and no price is written on this page.
What happens after I post a request?
The request goes live on the Open Care Requests board with your name masked, and the professionals in your ZIP area who match are emailed at once; the thank-you shows who matched right now and names the account it created. Each answer arrives in your inbox with the professional's message and contact details, and Your care requests on Marketplace Home lists every request with how many answered.
Can I book respite for just one day?
Yes. A care request's When can tick a single block such as Weekend days, the weekly schedule holds one-off shifts beside the recurring ones, and the family can post an open shift for one day that a professional on the team claims from Open shifts.
What does the respite professional see?
The care-team dashboard for that one family: the day plan with its videos and steps, the medications to log, the checklists and the clock, and never the Family and Friends Feed.