What are home help services?
When the daily routine that you used to take in your stride starts to become a struggle, you might worry that you can’t cope at home with domestic tasks and will have to move into a care home.
We’ve worked with many clients who’ve faced this challenge and our home helpers supported them to live safely and confidently at home. We can help you do the same with our home help services.
Support from a home help carer
It’s often support with the little tasks and chores that make a big difference. Getting that helping hand with appointments, tidying up or prepping your meal, can take a weight off your mind.
Deciding how much home help and support you need is up to you. If you’d like our support, we’ll create a detailed package of care with a schedule of costs and proposed start date. You can change your mind or adjust your home help support plan at any time.
Here’s an idea of the things we can do to help you.
Prepare your meals and do the dishes
Take you to the shops or help you what you need buy online
Clean and tidy your home
Wash and iron your clothes, and change your sheets
Manage and book your appointments including NHS appointments
Help organise direct payments and pay the bills
Liaise with third parties, such as plumbers, your local authority, couriers and dog walkers
Restoring confidence: Mrs Y’s experience
Mrs Y was managing every element of her daily routine with confidence, except for shopping, as she was starting to struggle to get out to the supermarket and carry her shopping home. She was worried that, if she couldn’t shop for herself, then she would have to consider moving to a care home.
By arranging weekly visits to take her grocery shopping, supporting her to ensure she had all the items she needed and adding in additional ad hoc visits for shopping trips to town for clothes and other essentials, Mrs Y’s confidence was restored. She gained peace of mind with her concerns about having to leave her home for residential care.
Top Tip : Making your life easier with home help care and support
You may find that there are some things around your home that you can’t do as well as you used to. A few small changes can help make daily life easier at home. It’s your home, so it needs to work for you. Age UK have created a great PDF of easy home adaptations for older people – whether it’s adding ramps and handrails, setting up motion sensor lights, adding a key safe or using chair raisers – they can make everyday tasks more comfortable and help you maintain your independence.
The first step is to get in touch with your local council and ask for a care needs assessment with social care. Age UK also offer support through their free advice line on 0800 678 1602.
We offer a full range of homecare services from help at home (domiciliary care), companionship care, respite care and personal care. Your continuing health, happiness and support in your own home is our priority.
Care Quality Commission: The CQC inspect and regulate home care providers to make sure they meet fundamental quality standards of homecare agencies. They make sure our care services are safe, caring, effective, responsive and well-led for you.
We provide you with peace of mind. Our CQC report will help you understand our business is a caring business.
