A non-medical home attendant for an elderly parent in Bangalore is paid roughly ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 a month full-time and ₹20,000 to ₹30,000 a month live-in, plus a room and meals for a live-in attendant. Those are 2026 market ranges for what the household pays the attendant, and offers move about 20 percent either way with the parent's condition, the hours and the attendant's experience. Round-the-clock cover costs more than one live-in salary, because one person cannot stay awake for 24 hours, and a bedridden parent or a parent with dementia costs more than one who mainly needs company and help with meals.
This guide covers the attendant role only. If your parent needs injections, wound care, catheter management or oxygen monitoring, that is nursing, which is a different hire with a different cost. The section near the end explains how to tell the two apart. For how attendant pay compares with maids, cooks and nannies, see the Bangalore maid salary guide.
What a home attendant does
An attendant helps with daily living rather than treatment. In practice that means help with bathing and toileting, dressing, moving between bed, chair and bathroom, feeding or preparing simple meals, reminding about tablets at the right time, walking with the parent inside the house or to the park, and company through the day. Attendants also notice the things a family member would notice: a fall, a fever, a skipped meal, confusion that is new.
They do not give injections, change dressings, manage a catheter or adjust medicine. A good attendant will tell you when something looks like it needs a doctor or a nurse, which is one of the more valuable things they do.
Full-time, live-in and 24-hour cover
| Arrangement | Typical monthly pay | Cover |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time day attendant (8 to 12 hours) | ₹15,000 to ₹25,000 | Daytime only; goes home at night |
| Live-in attendant | ₹20,000 to ₹30,000 plus room and meals | Available across the day, with fixed rest hours and a weekly off; sleeps at night |
| Night attendant | Confirmed on a call | Awake overnight, usually 8 pm to 8 am |
| 24-hour cover | Two salaries | A day attendant plus a night attendant, or a live-in plus a night attendant |
A full-time day attendant suits a parent who is alone while you are at work and needs help with meals, a bath and movement, but sleeps through the night without needing anyone. This is the most common arrangement in Bangalore and the cheapest way to get proper daytime care.
A live-in attendant suits a parent who needs help at unpredictable times, including the occasional night, and who lives in a home with a spare room. A live-in attendant sleeps at night. She can get up for a bathroom trip once or twice, but if your parent is up every hour, or needs turning every two hours, you need a night attendant as well.
That is the point most families get wrong when they first price this. A parent with advanced dementia, a recent stroke or a bedridden condition needs someone awake at all times. That is two people working in shifts, and two salaries, however you arrange it. A single live-in attendant asked to cover nights as well will be exhausted within a fortnight, and exhausted attendants make mistakes with tablets and transfers.
Per-visit attendants exist for short needs, such as a bath and a walk each morning, and are priced per visit. They work for a parent who is mostly independent and fall short for anyone who needs supervision.
What pushes the cost up
The parent's mobility is the biggest factor. A bedridden parent means turning, bedpan use, sponge baths, pressure-sore prevention and lifting, which is physically hard and needs training. Expect the top of the range or above.
Dementia and other memory conditions add a different kind of load. The attendant is managing repeated questions, wandering, refusals to eat or bathe, and sometimes aggression. Not every attendant is suited to it, and those who are ask for more. A family usually needs 24-hour cover once wandering or night-time confusion begins.
A male attendant costs more in Bangalore because fewer men do this work. Families ask for one when the parent is a heavy man who has to be lifted, or when the father is uncomfortable being bathed by a woman. If your parent can manage transfers with one person's support, a trained female attendant is usually easier to find and to keep.
Experience with a specific condition, such as post-stroke recovery, Parkinson's or a recent hip replacement, also lifts the figure. So does language. An attendant who speaks your parent's language changes how the care is received, and candidates with Kannada, Tamil or Hindi plus some English are in shorter supply.
Two smaller factors matter. Locality affects commuting for a day attendant, and homes on the outer edges of the city quote a little higher. Any duties beyond the parent's care, such as cooking for the family or general cleaning, are a separate job and should be priced as one or left out.
What the salary does not include
The monthly figure is what you pay the attendant. On top of it, plan for meals during duty hours, a festival bonus of around one month's salary once a year, two to three days of paid leave a month, and the supplies your parent needs, such as adult diapers, a commode chair or a hospital bed. Those supplies are often a bigger monthly cost than families expect.
For a live-in attendant placed through EzyHelpers, the one-time placement fee is ₹25,000 plus 18 percent GST. That covers document and background verification, reference checks, a skills assessment and an in-person interview before the attendant reaches your home. Live-in placements carry a 7-day cooling-off period and a free replacement on the 3-month and 11-month plans. Fees for full-time and per-visit attendants depend on the arrangement and we confirm them on a call. The attendant pays nothing to us.
When you need a nurse instead
An attendant is the right hire when the need is daily living: bathing, feeding, moving, company, tablet reminders. A nurse is the right hire when the need is clinical. Signs that you have crossed that line:
- Injections, insulin or IV lines at home.
- A wound, bedsore or surgical site that needs dressing.
- A catheter, feeding tube or tracheostomy.
- Oxygen at home, or vitals that need to be recorded and acted on.
- A discharge summary that says "skilled nursing" or lists procedures to be done at home.
Many families end up with both: an attendant for the day-to-day, and a nurse visiting for specific procedures. We do not publish nursing prices because the cost depends on the procedures, the frequency and whether the nurse visits or stays. A free assessment at home tells you which level of care is needed and what it will cost. Attendant options are described under home attendant services in Bangalore, and the wider set of options, including nursing, under elderly care in Bangalore.
Before you agree a figure
Write down what a normal day looks like for your parent, hour by hour, including the nights. Note what they can do alone, what they need help with and what they refuse. That list decides whether you need a day attendant, a live-in or two people, and it is the single most useful thing to have before the first conversation with an agency or a candidate.
Then agree the duties, the hours, the weekly off, the salary date and who buys supplies, and put it on paper. Attendants leave homes where the job keeps growing without the pay following it. A parent who has settled with one attendant does badly with a new face every three months, so the stable arrangement is the cheaper one over a year even when the monthly figure is higher.