Respite care in a personal care home, or through an at-home personal care service, can be an option for some senior adults and their family caregivers during the holidays, suggests Mary Anderson, executive director at Willow Pond Personal Care. "Sometimes families, they're still caring for their elder parents but then their kids are grown and have children, so those grandkids, they move away," Anderson said. "The grandma and grandpa, they want to go see the grandkids.