You share a few details about the person, the support you are exploring, your location, and your timing.
Home care connections · Vetted local providers
About Family Lantern
A more honest place to begin looking for care at home.
Family Lantern exists to make the first step easier for families in Buffalo Niagara who are trying to understand home care or home health options.
Why it exists
Care decisions are personal. The first step should be clear.
Families often begin with a practical question: what kind of help would make the day easier? Family Lantern gives that question a local starting point without asking you to know every service name in advance.
Family Lantern is a service that pairs families with home care and home health providers that specialize in the support they need. Every provider we work with is vetted by Family Lantern and has passed a background check before it can contact a family. We do not employ caregivers ourselves, so ask each provider how it screens and trains the caregivers it sends. We do not deliver care, set provider prices, or decide whether a service is available.
How the referral model works
Clarity includes knowing what happens to a request.
With your consent, those details may be shared with third-party home care and home health providers serving the area.
Providers may contact you by phone, text, or email. You decide which conversations to continue.
What you can expect
A starting point, not a sales promise.
- Providers we have vetted and background-checked before they can contact you
- A plain-language way to describe what is changing at home
- A clearer distinction between non-medical home care and skilled home health care
- Questions to take into conversations about services, availability, pricing, and fit
- A reminder that each provider makes its own care and eligibility decisions
A simple next step
Start with the details you already know.
Share a few details about what you are exploring. You do not need to know the exact care term before you begin.