About our services

Live-in care can support you in removing some of the worry and responsibility of having to care and fend for yourself and your home. It leaves you free to relax and enjoy life, safe in the comfort of knowing that everything is taken care of.

By looking at your specific needs we can match your requirements with the skill sets and characters of our carers. It is important to us that you are totally comfortable with the carer, both personally and professionally. This means that you can have the lifestyle you choose.

Typically your live in carer will carry out any personal care tasks, such as helping you get up, washed and dressed and toileting, all at your own speed and to your own timetable. Where required, carers provide companionship, they will cook for you, to your taste of course, and undertake light housework such as cleaning and housekeeping ‚ all to support you with your desire to remain in your own home. Many of them will be able to drive, so that outings to the shops, day centres or an occasional change of scene can be accommodated easily. If you are keen to stay at home because of pets they will be able to care for them as well as they care for you. Most importantly, because the same carer will stay with you on an ongoing basis, you benefit from a continuity of companionship, routine and care.

We often place two carers in homes where the care requirement is more demanding, for example if there are moving and handling issues or very disturbed nights. Sometimes, live-in care is appropriate to facilitate a prompt and safe hospital discharge that can then be reduced as the person readjusts to being back home. If this is the case, our assessors are happy to come out and visit the client and their family before the discharge, so that an appropriate service can be agreed.

For more information, including case histories, visit Helping Hands Homecare's website (it will open in a new browser window) or call Freephone 0808 180 9488.