serviço de apoio domiciliário
Published 8 November 2026, 21:11
serviço de apoio domiciliário, SAD (home care)
Care that comes to the person at home: help with daily life and personal care for someone who, temporarily or permanently, cannot manage on their own. It is a social service, like a care home, except that the person stays in their own home. It is not only for older people: adults with disabilities and others who depend on help from other people receive home care in the same way. In reports and notices it is shortened to SAD.
Where you come across it. When someone needs help every day, after a hospital stay or with age, but does not want to move out.
There is no price list: the family contribution (comparticipação familiar), a share of income after family expenses, is calculated under each provider's own internal rules, so two providers in the same town charge different amounts for the same service. Ask in the same places as for a care home: your municipality's social services or Segurança Social, Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Lisbon, or go directly to the IPSS that provides the care.