Home Care in
Riverdale

Riverdale has the highest concentration of Jewish residents in the Bronx — in 2003, a majority of the entire Bronx Jewish population lived here — and it is home to RiverSpring Living, formerly the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, a 32-acre geriatric care campus on Palisade Avenue founded in 1917. Many Riverdale families choose professional in-home care from Good Care Agency as an alternative to facility placement at RiverSpring — allowing elderly relatives to remain in their own apartments, surrounded by the community and synagogues they have been part of for decades, while still receiving the skilled nursing, aide, and therapy support they need. The Hebrew Institute of Riverdale, working with Selfhelp Community Services, hosts regular programming for Holocaust survivors in this community — coffee house events, social gatherings, professional support. Good Care Agency's Holocaust Survivors Program provides dignified in-home care for the survivors who choose to remain at home rather than in a facility, with Russian and Ukrainian-speaking staff who understand both the language and the weight of this generation's history. Our team also speaks Uzbek and Tajik — reflecting the Central Asian Jewish families who arrived in Riverdale as part of the former-Soviet emigration — and Spanish for the neighborhood's growing Hispanic population.