Home Care in
Coney Island

HHA and PCA aides serving Coney Island's NYCHA communities — Gravesend Houses, Coney Island Houses, O'Dwyer Gardens, Surfside Gardens — and private residents, in Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, and English. Our aides are experienced with the high-rise building environments and specific logistics of public housing care in this neighborhood. For elderly Russian and Ukrainian-speaking residents who have lived in the same NYCHA tower for thirty years, our aides provide daily personal care with the cultural familiarity their generation expects.

Coney Island is identified in the Brooklyn Community Needs Assessment as one of the areas with the highest rates of potentially preventable diabetes hospitalizations and respiratory condition hospitalizations in the borough. Our nurses address both. For diabetes clients, we provide blood sugar monitoring, medication management, diabetic wound care, and physician coordination. For respiratory clients — COPD, asthma — we provide breathing assessments, nebulizer training, and management of the complex multi-drug regimens that these conditions require. All nursing communication is in the client's language — Russian, Ukrainian, or Spanish.

Nearly 40% of Coney Island and Brighton Beach households receive SNAP — a number that reflects both the genuine poverty and the success of outreach efforts in this community. Our social workers help Coney Island families access the full range of benefits available to them: Medicaid enrollment, Medicare, SNAP, NYCHA tenant services, and the community organizations serving southern Brooklyn. For elderly immigrants who do not know what they are entitled to, our Russian and Spanish-speaking social workers are often the first professionals to explain the system in their language.

Our Coney Island intake team speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, and English. With nearly 40% of households receiving SNAP — the highest in Brooklyn — and a significant NYCHA population, our coordinators are experienced helping families navigate Medicaid enrollment under complex circumstances, including public housing residents and elderly immigrants with limited English. We coordinate directly with South Brooklyn Health's discharge team for post-hospital clients.

Post-surgical and post-stroke rehabilitation for Coney Island seniors — including NYCHA residents whose building elevator access may be unreliable and for whom a trip to an outpatient rehabilitation facility requires navigating the building, the street, and the subway, often impossible after major surgery. Our physical therapists bring rehabilitation directly into the apartment.

Speech therapy for Coney Island clients recovering from stroke or managing neurological communication challenges — in Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, and English. For elderly Russian-speaking clients whose English is limited, post-stroke speech therapy in their native language produces significantly better outcomes than therapy conducted through an interpreter.

NHTD Waiver services for Coney Island residents with physical disabilities — Medicaid-covered in-home support that prevents nursing facility placement for clients who can remain safely at home with professional support.

TBI program for Coney Island clients recovering from traumatic brain injury or stroke — in-home rehabilitation support in Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish, and English.

Pediatric home care for Coney Island children with complex medical needs — in a neighborhood where NYCHA families have limited access to specialized outpatient pediatric services.

Our Holocaust Survivors Program is available for elderly Jewish survivors living in Coney Island — including Russian and Ukrainian-speaking survivors who settled in the NYCHA developments and private apartments of this neighborhood. We provide dignified, culturally sensitive in-home care from staff who speak their language and understand their history.