Amsterdam, New York · Montgomery County

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How to find an in-home caregiver in Amsterdam

The City of Amsterdam's own website opens with views of the pedestrian bridge over the Mohawk River and Lock E-11 on the Erie Canal. The Census Bureau estimated 18,093 residents on July 1, 2025, slightly fewer than its April 2020 base of 18,214. Census survey data for 2020–2024 count 3,550 people in the city are 65 or older (19.5%), 357 of them at least 85, and 32.4% of the 7,679 households include an older adult. Among residents 65 and up, 40.2% report a disability. Older people living alone head 672 households (women) and 580 (men).

Language and transport shape the search here. Of residents age five and over, 18.2% use a home language besides English, mainly Spanish (15.8%), and the survey counts 939 Spanish speakers who speak English less than "very well"; about a quarter of the city (26.9%) is of Puerto Rican origin. Note in the posting if Spanish suits your parent best. About one household in seven (14.5%) has no vehicle, more than the county's 11.4%, so say whether the job includes driving. Profiles above are ordered by distance from 12010 and update as people join; you hire directly, with no agency.

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Private in-home caregivers near Amsterdam, NY

Independent caregivers with profiles on CaregiverConnect whose home base is within 50 miles. You agree on duties, schedule and pay directly with the person you hire.

Chloe U.

Amsterdam, NY · in town · 10+ yrs experience

I have 10 year experience as CNA between LTC, pediatrics, rehab, hospice, end of life, home care, respite, wound care, dementia etc.

Dementia carePost-surgery careHospice supportSkilled nursingpart-timeHas vehicle

$24/hrSee full profile

Liluana R.

Schenectady, NY · about 15 mi from Amsterdam · 10+ yrs experience

I am a reliable, caring and experienced carer with over 14 years of experience in care industry, including 5 years in live-in care. I am patient, kind and trustworthy,…

Dementia carePost-surgery careHospice supportWound careOtherlive-in

$20/hrSee full profile

Cassandra E.

Schenectady, NY · about 16 mi from Amsterdam · 10+ yrs experience

Professional Caregiver – PCA / HHA I am a compassionate, dependable, and dedicated caregiver with over 5 years of experience providing care to elderly individuals,…

HousekeepingErrandsMeal prepPersonal carefull-timeHas vehicle

$21/hrSee full profile

Rachal R.

Schenectady, NY · about 16 mi from Amsterdam · 3+ yrs experience

Monitor vital signs and report changes, enhancing patient safety and response time. Collaborate with medical staff to ensure efficient patient flow and service delivery.…

HousekeepingErrandsMeal prepPersonal carefull-timeHas vehicle

$24/hrSee full profile

4 of 4 available caregivers within 50 miles of Amsterdam, nearest first. Full profiles, references and messaging are available with a free family account. Only real caregivers are listed; sample and test profiles never appear. Caregivers can ask to be shown without a name or photo (privacy policy).

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Types of in-home care families in Amsterdam arrange

All non-medical. For nursing tasks (injections, wound care, catheters) you need a licensed home health agency, not a private caregiver.

Senior care at home · Personal care · Companion care · Dementia care · Respite care · Overnight and live-in · Post-surgery recovery · Part-time and flexible

Choosing well

Evaluating caregivers in Amsterdam

Nobody at CaregiverConnect checks identities, licenses or criminal records, so each reply is a starting point for your own checking. Interview at your parent's place and include your parent. Ask for two past families or supervisors and phone them yourself, pose a scenario such as a missed insulin dose, then pay for a single trial shift before committing. New York's Labor Department points out that the Department of Health criminal history check is normally run by an agency; a family hiring someone directly has no access to it.

Montgomery County sits in what the Labor Department calls the remainder of New York State, where the basic minimum wage is $16.00 an hour in 2026. Under Public Health Law §3614-f, anyone employed mainly to help someone at home with personal care, chores or health tasks, CDPAP personal assistants included, gets a higher floor: $18.65 here in 2026. That floor excludes people working on a casual basis. Aides can also be owed overtime at 1½ times their rate past 40 hours (44 if living in), call-in pay when sent home early from a scheduled shift, and an extra hour at the minimum rate for a workday that stretches beyond ten hours.

Questions families here ask at interview

Dad has Medicaid. If he enrolls in CDPAP, would you sign up with PPL as his paid assistant?
Could you take my mother to St. Mary's on Guy Park Avenue, or should she book CDTA STAR rides for appointments?
My mother prefers Spanish. Are you comfortable speaking Spanish with her all day and reading her medication labels with her?
Would you walk my father to the senior café on Division Street at lunch and stay while he eats?
When you are ill or want time off, when will you tell us, and do you know someone who could fill in?

Schedules and cost

What in-home care costs in Amsterdam: hourly rates and schedules

Common requests are set weekly blocks: mornings for washing and dressing, a midday lunch and medication check, afternoons for errands, or nights and weekends so a relative can rest. Paid private shifts fill gaps until EISEP or Medicaid help starts.

Reference point	Hourly	Source
Employed aides, Capital/Northern New York nonmetropolitan area	$18.28 median	BLS OEWS, May 2025
New York (remainder of state) minimum wage	$16.00	effective January 1, 2026
Agency non-medical caregiver, New York median (CareScout 2025)	$35.00	CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025

Who is the employer. When you hire a caregiver directly, you are the employer. The New York (remainder of state) minimum wage is $16.00 an hour (effective January 1, 2026); the federal minimum of $7.25 and federal overtime rules apply to directly employed caregivers unless the work is exempt companionship under the FLSA. Source: US Department of Labor, direct care workers; the state source is listed at the end of this page.

BLS does not count Montgomery County in the Albany metro. It belongs to the Capital/Northern New York nonmetropolitan area, eight counties that also include Fulton, Hamilton, Essex, Clinton, Franklin, St. Lawrence and Lewis. There, 5,110 home health and personal care aides (SOC 31-1120) earned a median $18.28 an hour and a mean of $19.60 ($40,760 a year) in May 2025, below New York's $19.05; the area's nursing assistants were at $21.17. Those figures came before January 2026, when the home care aide minimum for this region went from $18.10 to $18.65; the next step is $19.00 in January 2027. CareScout's 2025 survey lists a $35 hourly median for New York agency non-medical care, or $80,080 a year full time, and a semi-private nursing home room costs a median $511 a day.

No agency tracks private rates. A caregiver you hire directly will usually expect more than the employed-aide median and less than an agency rate; every caregiver on this site lists an hourly rate on their profile, and the hiring guide covers taxes and overtime.

Local help

Caregiver resources for families in Amsterdam

Montgomery County Office for Aging, Inc.135 Guy Park Avenue, Amsterdam 12010; 518-843-2300; weekdays 8:00 to 3:30. Unusually, it is a private not-for-profit: only three of New York's 59 aging offices are not county-run. It runs Montgomery County NY Connects with DSS (statewide line 1-800-342-9871).
EISEP and caregiver respiteHelp at home with bathing, dressing, shopping, laundry and cleaning for people 60 and over, with a sliding fee based on monthly income. Anyone eligible for Medicaid gets this kind of help through Social Services instead. Caregiver respite too.
Meals for adults 60+Rao Family Meals of Montgomery delivers to the home Monday to Friday after an eligibility assessment, with no income test. Café-style hot lunches run 11:00 to 1:00 on weekdays at 52 Division Street in Amsterdam; register once and call a day ahead to reserve.
OFA Senior Transport and taxi ticketsVolunteer drivers take residents 60+ to non-emergency medical visits, local or out of town; book at least seven days ahead, $5.00 suggested per one-way ride. Riders must manage the car on their own and not be Medicaid-eligible for medical rides. Taxi tickets help with medical fares.
CDTA buses and STAR paratransitRoute 605 links Amsterdam with downtown Schenectady seven days a week via Guy Park Avenue and Division Street; route 601 serves South Amsterdam and Route 30; weekday 560 runs to downtown Albany on the Thruway. STAR rides go within 3/4 mile of a route during its hours; intake (518) 482-2022.
Montgomery County DSS, Protective Services for AdultsReferrals at 518-853-8275 for adults 18+ with an impairment who cannot meet their basic needs or protect themselves from harm or exploitation and have no one able to help; confidential, no income test. DSS Amsterdam office: 1 Venner Road, 518-212-5778.
CDPAP: PPL and Department of Health contactsPPL (statewide fiscal intermediary): 1-833-247-5346. Unresolved problems can go to the state health department (managed care members 1-866-712-7197; others 518-474-5888).

Safety

Hiring safely in Amsterdam

Put the hours, rates, duties and the routine for shopping money and receipts in a short written agreement you both sign, and keep a weekly record of hours worked. Secure valuables and medicines, and turn on banking alerts for unusual withdrawals. To report an older Montgomery County resident at risk of neglect, harm or exploitation, call Protective Services for Adults at 518-853-8275. As a household employer, the Labor Department expects you to give written notice of the pay rate, overtime rate and payday, pay weekly with a written statement, allow at least 30 unpaid minutes for a meal in a shift over six hours, and buy workers' compensation if the caregiver works 40 hours a week or lives in. An employer of four or fewer must also give up to 40 hours of sick leave a year, paid if the employer's net income topped $1 million. Under federal law a live-in caregiver can be exempt from overtime, never from the minimum wage. Read our CDPAP guide if a relative may be paid.

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How it works

How to hire a private caregiver in Amsterdam (no agency)

CaregiverConnect is a marketplace, not an agency: you hire the caregiver directly, which is why there is no agency mark-up on their hourly rate. That also means screening is your responsibility, and we tell you how.

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Pricing, plainly

What is free and what costs money

Browsing, posting and receiving applications are free. Messaging and confirming a hire are part of Family Premium ($24.99/month, cancel any time). No commission on what you pay the caregiver; see the pricing page.

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Find caregivers near Amsterdam

Caregivers set a travel radius, so a caregiver based in a neighbouring town may well cover your home. These pages show who is nearby.

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Guides

Useful reading

Caregiver Interview Questions for Families: Hiring Checklist · How Much Does Companion Care Cost? · Companion Care vs. Personal Care: Which Help Do You Need? · How Much Does In-Home Dementia Care Cost?

Sources (checked 2026-11-01):

Questions

Hiring a caregiver in Amsterdam: frequently asked questions

Could Medicaid pay me as Mom's caregiver in Amsterdam?

Yes, if she qualifies for Medicaid home care and chooses CDPAP. A CDPAP consumer may hire a relative or friend; the health department rules out only a spouse, the person acting as designated representative, and a parent when the consumer is younger than 21. She (or her representative) recruits, trains and supervises you and keeps payroll records; PPL, which every CDPAP consumer must now use, processes your wages and withholding. Assessments since September 1, 2025 apply the Minimum Needs Requirements to adults 21 or older, though anyone already authorized then stays under the prior rules.

Where does a Medicaid home care application start in Montgomery County?

With the Department of Social Services' Long Term Care Unit, 518-853-8275. It handles home care and long-term care for people who are Medicaid eligible, at any age.

Dad is not on Medicaid. What help can the county give?

Call the Office for Aging at 518-843-2300 about EISEP, the state program for people 60 and over who need help with personal care or chores and are not Medicaid-eligible. Locally it covers bathing, dressing, shopping, laundry and cleaning, and what you pay depends on monthly income.

What is a fair hourly rate for home care in Amsterdam?

A caregiver hired mainly for personal care at home must legally get at least $18.65 an hour here in 2026, and $19.00 in 2027. Aides in the BLS area covering Montgomery County had a median of $18.28 in May 2025, before the latest increase; CareScout puts New York agency rates at a $35 median. A directly hired caregiver is owed overtime past 40 hours a week, or 44 when living in.

Which hospital serves Amsterdam?

St. Mary's Hospital, part of St. Mary's Healthcare, is at 427 Guy Park Avenue; the hospital line is (518) 842-1900.

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