A home. Not a facility.

Why a house

When families start looking, they tour buildings. Long corridors, a reception desk, a dining hall, an activity board. It is efficient, and for some people it is genuinely the right answer.

A lot of people do not do well there, though. They get quieter. They stop asking for things. They become a room number on a roster that turns over every few months.

We run Daraan out of an actual house because the setting is part of the care, and we keep the number of residents small enough that nobody has to compete for attention. Some people are here for years. Some come for a few weeks after a hospital stay and go home stronger. Both count.

Source: National Center for Health Statistics, Residential Care Community Resident Characteristics: United States, 2018 (Data Brief No. 454, 2022), and Variation in Residential Care Community Resident Characteristics, by Size of Community (Data Brief No. 171, 2014). These are national figures describing small residential care homes as a category. They are not measurements of Daraan, and we are not claiming them as our own results.

Dignity first

Care given the way we would want it given to our own parents: privately, patiently, and without ever making somebody feel like a burden.

The ratio is the product

We will not grow past what the caregivers can genuinely handle. Everything good about this place depends on that number, so it is not a thing we will quietly let slip.

We say the hard thing

If we are not the right fit we say so on the first call. A bad placement helps nobody, and a family in a crisis deserves a straight answer more than a sales pitch. Our scope of care page lists what we decline.

One price, written down

The rate includes the care. No re-assessment letters, no line items appearing on an invoice for things that were always part of looking after somebody. Every figure is on the pricing page, including the whole first month.

Families stay involved

You are not visiting a facility, you are part of the care. Come by, call, ask questions, turn up unannounced. We would rather you saw an ordinary day than a prepared one.

Food is care, not catering

Cooked here, from real ingredients, around real preferences, including religious and medical requirements. It is one of the few pleasures that stays reliable, and a dropping appetite is often the first sign that something else is wrong.