What Senior Home Care Costs in Saskatoon
Most care pages will not give you a number. This one does, then explains the parts that change it - because the hourly rate is the easy half and hours per week is the half that decides the bill.
Provincial figures on this page were accurate as of September 2026. Government rates change; confirm current numbers with the Saskatchewan Health Authority before you plan around them.
Our rates
- Companion visit - from $32/hour. Single or occasional visits, three-hour minimum. Companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping and laundry, medication reminders, and a message to family afterwards.
- Weekly home support - from $29/hour. Twelve hours a week or more, same caregiver, same days, with a named backup who has met your family. Roughly nine percent below the occasional rate.
- Overnight and extended respite - from $36/hour. Evenings, overnights and weekends, quoted per situation because sleeping and awake arrangements are staffed differently.
- Mileage - $0.55/km for appointments and errands in the caregiver's insured vehicle. Statutory holidays are 1.5 times and need a week's notice. A couple in the same home is $6 an hour more, not double.
What that means per month
The hourly rate is not the useful number. Hours are.
- Three visits a week, three hours each - nine hours, occasional rate. About $1,248 a month.
- Weekday mornings, three hours - fifteen hours, weekly rate. About $1,885 a month.
- Weekday full mornings and afternoons, six hours - thirty hours, weekly rate. About $3,770 a month.
Those are arithmetic, not quotes. A real quote comes after a free in-home consultation, because the honest answer to "how many hours do we need" is usually fewer than families first assume.
Apply for SHA Home Care regardless
The Saskatchewan Health Authority runs a publicly funded Home Care programme and it is worth applying for whether or not you ever use us. It is not means-tested at the door - services are provided based on an assessed need.
How it works: you need a valid Saskatchewan Health Services card, you request an assessment, and a social worker visits the home to determine needs and build a care plan. Client fees are based on income and the number of services delivered, and clients can apply for a subsidy. Professional services - nursing assessment, care coordination, therapy - are provided without charge to home care clients.
To request an assessment, call 1-844-822-0360 or contact your local health centre. Do this first. We would rather you get the public assessment and then decide what private care fills the remaining gap than pay us for something the province would have covered.
Individualized Funding: the option nobody mentions
Saskatchewan runs a programme called Individualized Funding for Home Care. Eligible people receive funding to arrange and manage their own home support rather than using the standard programme.
What it covers: supportive home care such as personal care and home management. What it does not cover: nursing and therapies, which stay with regular home care.
Eligibility broadly requires that you need long-term supportive care, are eligible for home care support services, are capable of managing the funding, and accept full responsibility for arranging services. It does not permit hiring family members.
The part worth reading twice: participants handle recruiting, hiring, training and terminating staff, payroll with tax deductions, compliance with employment legislation, a backup care plan, and regular reporting to the SHA. That is a real job, and for some families it is entirely manageable and saves money. For others it is the thing that tips them toward an agency. Ask the SHA Home Care Program in your community what is permitted in your case before assuming either way.
Contact the Continuing Care Branch at 306-787-7239.
The comparison families actually face
Below roughly twenty hours a week, in-home care is usually cheaper than assisted living and keeps a parent in their own house, which is almost always what they want. Somewhere past forty hours a week the arithmetic reverses.
The province also funds facility-based respite beds, charged on a sliding scale by income - between about $45 and $113 a day as of 2026, plus transportation and medication costs. That is the comparison point for a week away, against in-home respite care.
If your parent reaches the point where round-the-clock care is the right answer, we will say so. We are not the right service for every stage and pretending otherwise would waste your money.
What we do not charge for
No registration fee, no membership, no minimum contract term. The in-home consultation is free and carries no obligation. Quoted rates do not change after you book.
Get an actual number
Call or text 306-700-6576 and describe the week you are trying to cover. See our full senior care service, senior housekeeping, or all care services.
Common questions
How much does in-home senior care cost in Saskatoon?
Our rates start at $32 per hour for occasional companion visits with a three-hour minimum, $29 per hour on a regular weekly schedule of twelve hours or more, and $36 per hour for overnight and extended respite. Mileage for appointments and errands is $0.55 per kilometre.
Does Saskatchewan Health Authority Home Care cover this?
SHA Home Care is a separate publicly funded programme and it is worth applying for whether or not you use us. Services are provided based on an assessed need, client fees are based on income and the number of services delivered, subsidies can be applied for, and professional services such as nursing assessment, care coordination and therapy are provided without charge to home care clients. Call 1-844-822-0360 to request an assessment.
What is Individualized Funding for Home Care?
A Saskatchewan programme that lets eligible people receive funding to arrange their own supportive home care instead of using the standard programme. It covers personal care and home management but not nursing or therapies. Participants take on recruiting, hiring, payroll with tax deductions, employment-law compliance and a backup care plan. Contact the SHA Home Care Program in your community, or the Continuing Care Branch at 306-787-7239.
Is home care cheaper than assisted living?
It depends almost entirely on hours. Below roughly twenty hours a week, in-home care is usually the cheaper option and keeps a parent in their own home. Above forty hours a week the maths tips the other way, and we will tell you when it has.