Care at Home : Care for the elderly and assisted living

24/7 One-on-One Live in Care in the Home Specialists for the elderly and infirm by qualified and trained professionals.

Live in care - looking after the people in your life you care about!

The aim at Care at Home UK Limited is to provide a consistently high standard of home care that will enable clients to live safely and comfortably in their own homes, without fear of accident, neglect or isolation. As a specialist provider of live in care, Care at Home will work tirelessly to enable their clients to achieve the best possible quality of life and maintain, as far as possible, their independence, dignity and privacy.

From their offices in Saffron Walden, near Cambridge, they deliver a nationwide care service and are currently looking after clients in London, the Eastern Counties, the Midlands, the Southern Counties and the South West. They can provide a live-in carer for any address in the UK and have their our own transport service, which enables them to deliver carers to more remote locations.

Care at Home specialise in looking after the elderly, the disabled and those convalescing from illness or injury. They only employ experienced and trained carers and each care package is designed specifically to cater for the needs of the individual. Services can range from companionship and help with light household duties to assistance with personal care and mobility.

Choosing the right care

Whether you are looking for care for yourself or for a close relative or friend, it is important you consider three key questions before choosing a domiciliary care agency:

What level of rating has the agency received from the CSCI? 

(CSCI stands for Commission for Social Care Inspection; this is the government agency responsible for regulating and inspecting all domiciliary care providers).

Ask them for a copy of their latest CSCI Inspection Report. This will give you detailed information about how well the agency is meeting the standards of care laid down by the CSCI.

Does the agency employ its carers directly, or are they all self-employed?

In order to ensure continuity, security, and a consistently high standard of care, all carers should be employed directly by the agency providing the care.

Does the care agency limit the number of carers responsible for individual clients?

With some agencies clients can be left anxious and confused through being looked after by an endless succession of different carers. Care at Home's policy (wherever possible) is to limit to two the number of carers responsible for looking after any one client on a regular basis. This provides clients with continuity and peace of mind and enables them to enjoy a relationship of confidence, trust and friendship with the carers looking after them.

Providing care services designed for you as an individual

The purpose of live-in care is to give you the personal and household support you need, either on a temporary or a permanent basis, to enable you to continue living safely and comfortably in your own home. Your carer will help you as required with your personal needs and will also take care of basic household chores, leaving you free to relax and enjoy life, secure in the knowledge that you are safe from mishap or harm.

At Care At Home they have been providing live-in care since the business was founded in 1990 and they are experiencing an ever increasing demand for this service. They can provide care to meet a wide range of different situations:

• Short-term respite care to replace the care normally provided by a family member who needs a break

• Short-term respite care to look after someone who has been released from hospital and needs support during convalescence

• Longer term support and companionship for someone who is starting to struggle with living on their own, but who does not want to be forced to go and live in a nursing home

• Intensive 24 hour care for someone who is bedridden with serious health problems, but who is determined to see out their days in the comfort of their own home

Although these examples cover most of the services delivered by Care at Home, each case is different, so if you are faced with a situation which you do not recognise above, please refer to the live-in case histories for other examples of the care they can provide.  

One-to-one care for the elderly

Your carer is there to assist you with a wide range of personal tasks, as appropriate to your own health and mobility. For example, you may need them to help you get up in the morning and get washed and dressed and then help you again at night to get ready for bed. If required, they will carry out light household duties for you, including cleaning the house and cooking your favourite meals. They may accompany you on walks to the library or the park, or you may want them to join you in a game of scrabble or cards. The important thing is that you have the final say over what should be done and when, and everything will be done at a time and at a pace to suit you.

Carers receive regular training in all aspects of their work, including:

• moving and handling
• first aid
• food hygiene
• administration of medication
• infection control
• health and safety
• care and protection of vulnerable adults
• Other specialist needs, including peg feeding, Dementia Care and Palliative Care.

All carers are required to obtain formal qualifications in caring through the government-backed system of National Vocational Qualifications (NVQs). 

Contact details

Care at Home
Hall Farm
Little Walden
Essex
CB10 1XE

Tel:  01799 541400
Fax: 01799 541500

 
Email:  info@careathome.org

Web:   www.careathome.org

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