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ADHD support at home. Structure, held daily.
Structure for homework, mealtimes, screens and bedtime. We place caregivers who run the same after-school sequence every day, break homework into short blocks, hold the screen rules and keep bedtime steady. Plenty of families who read this page do not need to hire anyone, and we say so below.
Reviewed by Sister Mary George, B.Sc Nursing, Care DirectorLast updated August 2026
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A lot of families who land here should not hire anyone.
This is the page on the site most likely to be read by a household that needs a routine rather than a caregiver. It is worth ten minutes working out which one you are.
If your child has mild ADHD and there is an adult at home in the afternoon, a parent, a grandparent, anyone with the hours, you probably do not need to employ someone. Write the after-school order down, fix the times and hold it for four weeks without exceptions. That one change is most of what this page describes, and it costs nothing.
A caregiver starts to make sense when the gap is structural. Both parents working long hours, with the house empty from the school run until dinner. A child who cannot start homework alone and will sit for two hours in front of an unopened book. Mornings and bedtimes that fail every day rather than on bad days. And frequently a second child whose homework and swimming lesson keep getting postponed because the evening is spent on their sibling.
That last one comes up more often than parents expect to admit. It is a reasonable thing to buy help for.
If you describe your week to us and it sounds like the first paragraph rather than the second, we will tell you so on the phone. That costs us the enquiry and saves you a salary you did not need to pay.
Understand the condition
ADHD: what families should know.
- Roughly 5 to 8%
DSM-5 puts ADHD at around 5% of children, and published global reviews commonly report a range of roughly 5 to 8%. Indian studies vary too widely for us to quote a single national figure, so we do not give one.
- About 2.5% of adults
DSM-5 gives an adult prevalence of about 2.5%. ADHD does not reliably disappear at eighteen. The hyperactivity often settles; the difficulty with starting, finishing and organising tends to stay.
- Boys diagnosed more often
Diagnosis rates are consistently higher in boys. Girls more often present as inattentive and quiet rather than disruptive, which is one reason they are picked up later.
This information is for general awareness, not medical advice. Always consult a qualified doctor for diagnosis and treatment. EzyHelpers arranges trained caregivers and nursing support, we work alongside your doctor’s plan, never in place of it.
What we cover
Care needs & conditions covered.
Conditions covered
- Inattentive presentation
- Hyperactive and impulsive presentation
- Combined presentation
- Homework refusal and task avoidance
- Bedtime resistance and late sleep
Care needs we support
- A fixed after-school sequence, arrival, snack, movement, homework, free time
- Homework broken into short timed blocks with breaks between them
- The same morning order every day, clothes laid out the night before
- Warnings and timers before every switch away from a screen
- The school bag packed the night before against the diary
- A wind-down routine that keeps bedtime at roughly the same hour
The after-school block
Three in the afternoon to nine at night.
A child with ADHD arrives home with nothing left in the tank, and the six hours that follow decide whether the evening is calm or a war. The order of those hours matters more than parents expect.
- Arrival, shoes off, bag down, uniform changed, in the same order daily so none of it needs deciding
- A snack straight away, because a hungry child with ADHD is a harder child by a wide margin
- A movement break before homework rather than after, twenty minutes of running, cycling, skipping or park time
- Homework started at a fixed time, not whenever the child seems ready, because that moment never arrives on its own
- The evening written on a board where the child can see it, so what is coming next is never a surprise
Homework
Short blocks, timer running, breaks in between.
A child who cannot sustain thirty minutes can often manage ten, three times, with a break between each one. Most homework battles are about the size of the block, not the difficulty of the sums.
- The work split into pieces before the child sits down, so a page of forty sums becomes four sets of ten
- A visible timer on the table, because a child who cannot feel time passing can watch it instead
- A two or three minute break between blocks, out of the chair, water, a stretch, then back
- The desk cleared of everything except the current subject, phone and tablet in another room
Structure, not correction
The caregiver holds the routine. The routine does the work.
Punishing a child for the symptoms of ADHD does not reduce them. Being told off for forgetting does not improve memory. What helps is structure arriving from outside the child, until the child can generate some of it himself.
- The same instruction repeated calmly, on the tenth day as on the first, in the same words
- Repetition without irritation is the actual skill being hired here, and it is rarer than it sounds
- Noticing out loud when something goes right, at a rate that would feel excessive for a child without ADHD
- Sarcasm, comparisons with a sibling and public embarrassment are ruled out at briefing, and we replace a caregiver who uses them
Mornings
Everything decided the night before.
Mornings collapse because they contain too many decisions for a brain that has just woken up. Move those decisions to the previous evening and the morning becomes a sequence to walk through.
- Uniform, socks, shoes, ID card and water bottle laid out the night before, in one place
- A fixed sequence, bathroom, dress, breakfast, teeth, bag, door, in that order every morning
- No negotiation inside the sequence, because reopening any step reopens all of them
- A departure time set against real Bangalore traffic, not against the distance to the school gate
Screens and transitions
The hardest minute of the day.
Stopping something enjoyable is genuinely harder for a child with ADHD, and a tablet switched off without warning is the most reliable way to trigger a meltdown. Most of that conflict is preventable with a warning and a timer.
- A ten minute warning, then five, then one, every time, rather than an abrupt stop
- The next activity named before the screen goes off, because moving towards something is easier than being stopped
- The same screen rules from every adult in the house, since one exception teaches the child that the rule is negotiable
- No screens in the hour before bed, which is one of the changes families notice fastest
Safety and belongings
Younger children act first. Older ones lose things.
The risk changes shape as the child grows. Under about eight, impulsivity is a safety problem. From the early teens, the daily damage is forgotten homework and lost belongings.
- Close supervision near roads, stairs, balconies, kitchens and water for a child who runs before looking
- Sharp items, medicines and cleaning products kept where an impulsive child cannot reach them on a whim
- A visible checklist by the door for older children, since remembering four items reliably is the part that fails
Medication
The caregiver watches and writes it down.
If your child is on medication, the observations your paediatrician needs are appetite, sleep and mood, and the person with the child every afternoon is the one who can see them. Giving the medicine is a separate matter, and it stays with you.
- Our caregivers do not give medication of any kind. No tablets, no capsules, no syrups, no injections, not even handing the dose over for the child to swallow
- What the caregiver provides is a short written note, lunch eaten or skipped, dinner appetite, how long the child took to fall asleep, mood in the late afternoon
- Appetite dropping away at lunch, sleep getting later, or the child becoming flat or tearful in the evening are all reported to you the same day
- Those notes go to your doctor, who is the only person who changes a dose, a timing or a medicine
- A caregiver never suggests starting, stopping, splitting or skipping a dose, and will tell you if anyone else in the house does
Sleep
Bedtime resistance is why a lot of families call.
Difficulty falling asleep is common in ADHD, and a child who sleeps late is measurably harder the next day in every way that matters. Bedtime is usually the first routine we try to stabilise, because everything else improves behind it.
- A wind-down that starts thirty to forty minutes before lights out, at the same time nightly
- Screens off first, then bath, then bed, so the sequence itself becomes the signal
- The child put to bed rather than sent to bed, because the walking away is where most bedtimes fail
School
Keeping the diary and the bag honest.
Most of what a school complains about is administrative. Work not submitted, books not brought, notes not signed. That is fixable at home by one adult who checks the same things at the same time each day.
- The school diary read every afternoon, with the homework list written where you can both see it
- The bag packed the night before against tomorrow’s timetable, then checked once in the morning
- Patterns flagged to you, one subject failing every week, the same teacher writing every note, work missing every Thursday
- If the school offers accommodations such as extra time or seating at the front, that conversation is yours to have. A caregiver cannot request them on your behalf
What we need from you
One set of rules, from every adult in the house.
This is the condition on which the placement stands or falls. A caregiver holding a routine that a parent or grandparent overrides in the evening is not holding a routine at all, and the child learns within a week which adult to ask.
- The same screen limit, bedtime and homework rule from both parents, any grandparent living in the house and any other staff
- A parent who reverses the caregiver’s instruction in front of the child ends the arrangement in practice, whatever anyone intends
- Two weeks at the start where a parent is around enough to hand over how your child is actually managed
- Any report from a paediatrician, psychologist or the school shared with the caregiver, so the plan at home matches the plan on paper
- A decision, written down, on who gives medication, because the caregiver will not and someone has to
Honest limits
Some of this needs a clinician, not a caregiver.
A caregiver is a trained non-clinical adult who holds a routine. That is a real job and it helps a lot of families. It is also the wrong answer for some children, and we would rather say so before you pay anyone.
- A caregiver is not a behaviour therapist, a special educator, a psychologist, a counsellor or a shadow teacher, and cannot deliver behaviour therapy
- Regular aggression towards people, whether at home or at school, needs a clinical team. Start with your paediatrician or a child psychologist
- Any self-harm, or a child talking about hurting themselves, needs professional help now. Please do not treat that as a staffing problem
- School refusal, a child who will not enter the building, usually has anxiety underneath it and needs assessment rather than a firmer routine
- A co-occurring diagnosis such as autism, a specific learning disability, anxiety or oppositional defiant disorder needs a plan written by the people who made the diagnosis
- If you describe any of the above at the consultation, we will tell you to see a clinician first. We would rather lose the booking than take money for the wrong help
Rate
What it costs, before you ask.
Most ADHD families do not book live-in. The common arrangement is a day shift or an after-school shift of about six hours, quoted lower after a consultation once we know the hours, how much homework support you want and whether school pickup is included. We cover Bangalore city limits, the 560xxx postcodes, and not Bangalore Rural, including Anekal and the 562xxx areas.
Honest expectations
What the caregiver does, and doesn’t.
Clear scope from day one keeps the placement happy on both sides. Here’s exactly what to expect.
Included in care
- Personal care, bathing, grooming, dressing, toilet assistance
- Oral feeding and meal-time support
- Oral medication reminders, on schedule
- Safe walking, transfers and mobility support
- Companionship, conversation and daily engagement
- Light tidying of the care recipient’s room and washroom
- Washing the care recipient’s clothes (machine wash)
- Preparing simple meals for the care recipient
Not included (we arrange specialists instead)
- Injections, IV lines, Ryle’s tube or any clinical procedure (we arrange qualified nurses for these)
- Cooking or housework for the whole family
- Washing the family’s clothes or cleaning the full house
- Heavy massage or physiotherapy (we arrange certified physiotherapists)
- Administering medication beyond reminders without nurse oversight
- Driving or errands outside the agreed care plan
Simple to start
How to book care at home.
- Step 1
Tell us what you need
Call +91-7619629005 or send the form, share the condition, daily routine and your locality.
- Step 2
Get matched within hours
We shortlist verified caregivers suited to the condition, language and shift you need.
- Step 3
Care starts at home
The caregiver is briefed and begins, with quick replacement support if the fit isn’t right.
Where the line sits for a child with ADHD
EzyHelpers places non-clinical caregivers. The sharpest boundary on this page is medication. Our caregivers do not administer medication of any kind, including ADHD stimulants and non-stimulants, tablets, syrups, injections and anything prescribed for sleep, and they do not hand a dose over for a child to take. That stays with a parent, another family member or a nurse, and the decision has to be made before the placement starts. The caregiver also does not diagnose or assess your child, does not deliver behaviour, occupational or speech therapy, and does not stand in for a paediatrician, psychiatrist, psychologist, special educator or shadow teacher.
What the caregiver does is hold the day together around those people. The after-school sequence, homework in short blocks, the morning routine, screen limits, packing the bag against the diary, supervision where impulsivity is a safety risk, the bedtime wind-down, and written notes on appetite, sleep and mood for your doctor. Where a psychologist or paediatrician has written a behaviour plan, the caregiver follows it as written. If your child is showing aggression, self-harm, school refusal or symptoms that have never been assessed, please see a clinician before you hire anybody, including us.
Related help
If you are still working out what your child needs.
ADHD support sits inside our wider special needs child care in Bangalore service. Where a child also has delays in movement or coordination, an assessment from paediatric physiotherapy is worth having first. ADHD is often diagnosed alongside other conditions, so families also read our pages on autism care at home, Down syndrome child care and cerebral palsy care at home. To see how these caregivers are recruited, briefed and replaced before you enquire, read the special needs caregiver page.
Frequently asked
ADHD support at home, answered.
Describe your weekday from three in the afternoon to bedtime.
We will tell you whether you need to hire anyone.
A consultation covers the after-school hours, homework, screens, mornings and sleep. If a written routine would fix it without a caregiver, we will say so instead of quoting you.