Live-in care can provide a seamless transition for you from visiting home care to more permanent home care. This point is usually reached when you are requiring such a volume of visiting home care calls, both day and night, that it would be more beneficial to be supported by a one-to-one dedicated live-in carer. We at Sante Care at Home are dedicated to providing all the support you require. We will listen to your unique aspirations, we hear your voice, respect your wishes and provide live-in care that empowers you to take those steps towards achieving your goals, whatever they may be.
Live-in care, quite simply, is for anybody who wishes to remain independent in their own home, but requires basic care right through to complex nursing-led support to do so. In this way, you can choose to remain at home even when you need 24-hour live in support for a long-term condition, illness or disability. Live-in care is provided by carers who live with you on a full-time basis, providing peace of mind to your family and a quality one-to-one relationship, helping you to do all the things you cannot do for yourself.
Furthermore, if you are a couple, live-in care can allow you to remain living together in an environment that you are both familiar and comfortable in, whilst receiving the individual care and assistance you both require depending on your differing care needs. It can also allow you to keep your pets and belongings which, with their familiarity and memories, also provide comfort and security.Live in care services include:
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Support around the home:
Cleaning, changing bed linen and towels, laundry and ironing, shopping for weekly groceries, help with meal preparation and managing bill payments.2
Personal care:
Dressing and undressing, washing and bathing, shaving, assistance with hair and makeup, nail care, continence care and support with prescribed medication.3
Companionship:
Conversation, encouraging contact with family and friends, help with reading and keeping up correspondence, accompanying on holidays, day trips or short breaks.4
Fulfilling lives:
Encouraging and supporting hobbies and interests at home or in the local community, encouraging exercise, accompanying people on visits (including day centres or other community day activities), and accompanying people on doctor’s appointments.Sante Care at Home Staff will have the skills to work with people who are disabled or who have conditions such as dementia
Some of the benifits of Live in care include:
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Of all the care options available, live-in care in your own home is the least disruptive and will offer you the greatest continuity and peace of mind.
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It allows for a completely personalised, one-to-one service and continuity of care – something even the very best residential alternative cannot provide
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There is no need for you to sell your home and loose many of your personal possessions.
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You will not be obliged to adapt to the more communal style of living associated with a care home
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If you are living with dementia, the familiarity of the same carers who truly understand you has far reaching benefits in terms of overall health and wellbeing – not something that can be achieved in a care home.
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It allows you, your family and your friends to visit as frequently as they wish, and ties with the local community can be maintained
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You can stay in control of your own life with your preferred routines, meals, environment and social life – promoting overall wellbeing
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If you are a couple, you can stay together for longer
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It allows a family pet to be cared for or that much-loved garden to be tended
Useful Sites
Age UK
Age UK publishes information sheets on the subject of homes and housing for the elderly. Also, your local group, whose number should be in the phone directory, should be able to provide information about homes in your area.
http://www.ageuk.org.uk/home-and-care/social-care-and-support-where-to-start/
FirstStop Advice
FirstStop Advice is an independent, free telephone service offering advice and information to older people, their families and carers about housing and care options for later life.
http://www.firststopadvice.org.uk/
Independent Age
Independent Age is an advice and information service providing expertise on social care, benefits, befriending and other social support and has a range of guides and publications.
http://www.independentage.org/advice/
Find Me Good Care
Find Me Good Care is developed and managed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), an independent charity working to initiate improvement and innovation in social care.
http://www.findmegoodcare.co.uk/about-us
UK Homecare Association (UKHCA)
UK Homecare Association (UKHCA) for information and advice about home care services and to find local providers in your area.
http://www.ukhca.co.uk/choosingcare.aspx
Elderly Care
Elderly Care is a free-to-use website created by the consumer group, Which?, to provide independent information on all aspects of care for older people.
http://www.which.co.uk/elderly-care
The Relatives & Residents Association
The Relatives & Residents Association is an independent charity that exists for older people needing or living in residential care, and the families and friends left behind.
http://www.relres.org/
