Practical, bilingual guides on caregiving, IHSS, and Persian family care — written and reviewed by CareJan.
These are written for two people: the son or daughter trying to arrange care for a Persian-speaking parent in Southern California, and the caregiver doing the work. They cover the things that are genuinely hard to find in one place. How IHSS eligibility and hours get decided. What California's referral agency law means for a family hiring directly. How to find someone who understands your parent's language and habits. Making a house safer. What to cook when appetite goes. How caregivers keep themselves from burning out.
Everything is published in English and Farsi. Where a guide touches benefits, health, or money, it says so at the top, in plain words, and points at the official source instead of expecting you to take its word for it.
Each guide lists its sources and shows when it was last updated. That second part matters more than it sounds. IHSS wage rates are set county by county and revised most years, and a private-pay rate quoted for Los Angeles is not the rate in San Diego.
New to all of this? Start with IHSS eligibility. It is the first question almost everyone asks, and the program can pay an independent caregiver, or in many cases a family member, to provide care at home. After that the cost guide sets expectations for private pay, and the comparison with assisted living is worth reading before any decision that is hard to walk back.
CareJan does, in both languages, and each guide is reviewed before it goes up. Sources are listed at the bottom of every one.
Each guide carries its own last-updated date. Rates go stale fastest. If a dollar figure is more than a year old, treat it as a starting point and check it against the county or the caregiver.
No. They are general guides, written so you can ask better questions. Anything touching eligibility, treatment, taxes, or how a caregiver is classified belongs with your county IHSS office, a clinician, or a professional adviser. CareJan is a referral agency, not a law firm and not a clinic.
Yes, all of them, properly typeset and right-aligned rather than machine-translated. The language switch keeps you on the same guide instead of sending you back to the start.
Print it. The Farsi pages are set in Vazirmatn at a size meant for reading rather than skimming, with the line spacing Persian actually needs, and they come off a home printer cleanly.
Say so. Email support@carejan.com with the guide and the line that is wrong. Rates and program rules move, and a guide that quietly goes stale is worse than no guide at all, so corrections are wanted rather than merely tolerated.
Anything that needs a professional looking at your particular situation. Immigration status and how it affects benefits, a dispute with the county over hours, the tax treatment of pay in a private household, medical decisions. Those sit outside what a guide can responsibly do, and the guides say so when they get near the line.