Companionship & social
Conversation, reading aloud, games, accompanied walks, technology help, pet feeding, and dog walking.
$20–26/hourCaregiver-set guidance band
For caregivers
Choose your work. Set your rate. Build portable trust.
Independent caregivers choose task categories, schedule, travel radius, rates, and which requests to accept. Part-time is normal here — a few hours a week is fine, and you choose every booking. Kalinga+ connects you to families. Contact us
For caregivers
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide hourly, non-medical home care — companionship, meals and nutrition, light housekeeping, errands, personal care, transportation, respite and recovery support, dementia companionship, and overnight support.
- Choose your task categories, schedule, travel radius, and rates — and which bookings to accept.
- Send a visit report after every visit.
- Keep your credentials, documents, and verification current.
- Work as an independent professional — Kalinga+ is a marketplace, not an employer.
Service catalog
Specific help, with clear boundaries.
Every task is non-medical, explicit, and tied to a verification tier. Caregivers choose the categories they offer and set their own rates; displayed bands are optional statewide planning guidance.
Meals & nutrition
Meal planning, shopping, preparation, cooking, serving, non-clinical feeding assistance, kitchen cleanup, and hydration reminders.
$20–26/hourCaregiver-set guidance band
Housekeeping
Dusting, vacuuming, mopping, laundry, linens, bathroom cleaning, trash removal, organizing, and plant care.
$20–26/hourCaregiver-set guidance band
Errands
Grocery or pharmacy pickup, mailing, dry cleaning, returns, pickups, and drop-offs. No handling of client funds.
$20–26/hourPlus caregiver-set round-trip mileage
Personal care
Bathing, dressing, grooming, oral hygiene, toileting, mobility, manual transfers, walking standby, and hands-on feeding where legally permitted.
$24–32/hourCredential, competency, and insurance gates
Transportation
Rides to appointments, social outings, church, and errands, plus accompaniment and non-clinical note-taking.
$24–30/hourPlus mileage; license, MVR, vehicle, and insurance gates
Respite & recovery
Relief for family caregivers and non-medical post-hospital support with meals, mobility standby, and errands.
$22–32/hourBand depends on task mix and highest applicable tier
Dementia companionship
Approved, non-medical engagement delivered by caregivers with verified preparation.
$26–34/hourExtra safety review
Overnight & language support
Overnight companionship or safety presence, plus optional multiple language speaking companionship.
$180–280/nightLanguage support may add $2–4/hour
All-Around Support
One caregiver covering the full range in a single visit — everything in Tiers 1 and 2: companionship, meals, housekeeping, errands, and personal care.
$26–34/hourCaregiver-set guidance band
Need round-the-clock care? Contact us — 24/7 is arranged as caregiver rotations.
Frequently asked
Clear answers for caregivers.
Kalinga+ is launching statewide across Arizona, connecting independent caregivers with families who need non-medical support.
No. Kalinga+ is a marketplace of independent caregivers. Families choose their caregiver, and caregivers choose their work. Kalinga+ verifies identities and publishes your trust profile, but does not employ you.
No. Kalinga+ is for non-medical support only. Medication administration, wound care, injections, diagnosis, skilled nursing, therapy, and other medical procedures are prohibited.
Kalinga+ authorizes the family’s card at booking and captures payment when the caregiver submits the visit report. Caregivers see the full fee breakdown, keep 100% of tips, and are paid on the Kalinga+ payout schedule: a visit counts as completed when the visit report is submitted; visits completed on the 1st–10th are paid on the 20th of the same month, the 11th–20th on the 1st of the next month, and the 21st–month-end on the 10th of the next month.
Kalinga+ serves the whole state of Arizona, including Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, Yuma, and other communities.
Complete verification — identity check, background screening, references, and the platform orientation — then set your rates, publish your profile, and accept your first bookings. References are simply two people who can vouch for your character — a teacher, coach, employer, neighbor, or family friend. They don’t need to be care-industry references.
You must be 18 or older. Kalinga+ caregivers are independent contractors, not employees — you need to be a legal adult to enter the caregiver agreement, clear background screening, and drive for errands and transport. This matches the standard across Arizona home-care providers.
We review every application personally, in the order it arrives. Then comes verification — identity check, background screening, references, and the platform orientation. After that you set your rates, publish your profile, and booking requests start arriving by email; you accept the ones you want. Kalinga+ is live — create your account and your next steps.
Kalinga+ is a non-medical home care marketplace, so clinical tasks — medication administration, wound care, injections, diagnosis, skilled nursing, therapy, and other medical procedures — aren’t part of any booking, even for licensed nurses. Nurses are very welcome here: you join as a caregiver, your background brings credibility families value, and it earns the “Licensed nurse (non-medical care)” profile badge. Your qualifications also work in your favor commercially — verified nursing credentials place you in the Premier tier (Premier caregivers may set a rate multiplier of 10%–50% on their rate), and your badges promote you on their own: families filtering for top qualifications find you first. Keeping every visit non-medical is also what keeps your license safe.
Booking requests reach you by email — you accept or decline each one, and you always choose which requests to take. At launch, requests also appear in the Kalinga+ app. In-app caregiver tools for accepting jobs and submitting visit reports from your phone follow after launch. You can already submit a visit report here.
Care Ambassador
Become a Care Ambassador.
Experienced caregivers in good standing can be invited to join the 20-seat Care Ambassador leadership board. The role, the charter, and the seats live on the Care Ambassador site.
How payment works
Simple, cashless, transparent.
No cash ever changes hands. Every dollar is traceable, and the breakdown is shown before anything is agreed.
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You pay Kalinga+ securely — by card, or from a conservatorship or trust account — when the visit is confirmed.
2
Your caregiver is paid on the Kalinga+ payout schedule. A visit counts as completed when the visit report is submitted. Visits completed on the 1st–10th are paid on the 20th of the same month; visits completed on the 11th–20th are paid on the 1st of the next month; and visits completed on the 21st–month-end are paid on the 10th of the next month. A 7-day refund window after completion is the payout hold — once paid, payment is final.
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Tips go 100% to your caregiver. Our 10% service commission is shown up front — no surprises.
Contact Us
Prefer your own mail app? Reach us anytime at kalingaplus.us@gmail.com.
Create an account
Join Kalinga+.
Member sign-in opens at launch. Create your account now to get started — tell us which side you are on, and we will reach out as soon as your side is ready. No password needed yet; you will set one when sign-in opens.