No matter the person, the background, the situation, there is always an intimacy and an equal-footing of sorts when we care for people at home. They are not visiting us in a hospital, clinic or doctor’s office. Rather, we are being invited into their home, on their terms and surrounded by their cherished belongings. And we respond accordingly in our care, in our touch. Paula will never forget visiting the home of an older New Yorker, the matriarch of a loving family, on Saturday and returning Sunday, when the patient’s family members were also visiting. “She said, ‘Oh, this is the nurse I was telling you about,’” Paula recalls. “After the care, I was talking to her family, and by the time I left the home, everyone was hugging me goodbye. I had become part of that family for the weekend.”