Elderly care
Elderly care
‘Because, life is better at home’
What is elderly care?
Elderly care allows you to continue living in the comfort of your own home.
Led by our nursing specialists, care for the elderly involves dedicated support for an older person who wishes to continue living in their own home. It may involve housekeeping services, cooking meals, personal care, domiciliary care, mobility support, administering medication or simply companionship and support getting out and about.
Elderly care can be offered through regular home visits at any time of the day or night. A carefully selected live-in carer can also be arranged, providing the reassurance that someone is always there to support your elderly relatives.
Here are some of the ways elderly home care can support you:
Housekeeping : Elder care for housekeeping entails maintaining a clean, safe, and organized living environment for seniors, enhancing their overall well-being.
Meal preparation : Elder care for meal preparation involves planning and cooking nutritious meals to support the dietary needs and health of seniors.
Personal care : Personal care for seniors encompasses assisting with daily tasks like bathing, grooming, and dressing, ensuring their hygiene and well-being.
Mobility support : Mobility support for seniors involves aiding with walking, transfers, and using assistive devices to enhance independence and prevent falls.
Medication assistance : Medication assistance for seniors entails administering and managing prescribed medications to ensure proper dosage and adherence to medical regimens.
Companionship : Companionship for seniors: Providing social interaction, emotional support, and alleviating loneliness, improving their overall well-being.
Running errands : Running errands for seniors includes tasks like grocery shopping, prescription pickups, and various chores to assist with daily life and convenience.
Looking after pets : Looking after pets for seniors involves caring for and tending to their animal companions, providing company and emotional support.
How elderly care at home can help
We firmly believe that home is always the best place to receive care.
When the need for care arises, receiving it in your own home comes with a number of brilliant benefits that you simply don’t get if you choose to move to a residential nursing home. Our exceptional carers are all expertly trained to provide a wide range of care services to people with varying needs. Some of the benefits of opting for home care over residential care include:
Personalised support
Personalized support for seniors tailors care to their unique needs, ensuring comfort, safety, and improved quality of life through tailored services.
A holistic approach
A holistic approach to senior care considers physical, emotional, and social well-being, promoting comprehensive health and overall quality of life.
Stay in a familiar environment
Personalized support for seniors tailors care to their unique needs, ensuring comfort, safety, and improved quality of life through tailored services.
Spend more time with loved ones
Spending more time with loved ones enriches the lives of seniors, fostering emotional connections and enhancing their overall well-being.
One-to-one care
One-to-one care ensures individualized attention, addressing unique needs, enhancing comfort, and providing a personalized approach to senior well-being.
Maintain your routines and hobbies
Maintaining routines and hobbies in senior care preserves a sense of identity, purpose, and happiness, contributing to overall well-being.
An alternative to residential care
Finding the right care provider for your family can take time, but one thing is for certain: if your loved one wants to remain at home, they can. Live-in care from Helping Hands serves as a viable alternative to residential care, and here’s why:
You can remain in the comfort of your own home
You can continue with your preferred lifestyle and routines
You have full control over your meal times and preferences
Your friends and family can visit as much as they like
One-to-one, 24-hour care from your own dedicated carer
Services for the elderly at home
We offer a number of elderly home care options, all of which are fully tailored to your specific needs and preferences.
Home care services can range from occasional assistance with housekeeping tasks, such as cleaning and laundry, to daily visits for help with personal care, such as bathing, grooming, and dressing. Some providers may also offer specialized medical services, like wound care or medication management. Choosing home care can allow individuals to maintain their independence and stay in the comfort of their own homes, while still receiving the support they need to manage daily tasks and maintain their health and well-being.
Visiting care
If you’d benefit from a bit of extra support throughout the week from a fully-trained carer, our visiting care plans might be ideal for you.
Visits from 30 minutes a week
Personalised support
Condition-led care
Live-in care
Offering a more thorough, round-the-clock support option, live-in care suits those living alone or with a complex condition.
24-hour care
Life on your own terms
Handpicked carer
Respite care
A short-term care option, ideal for those moments when you unexpectedly find yourself in need of additional support at home.
A break for your carer
Post-hospital care
Help with recovery
Why choose Helping Hands for elderly care?
With over 30 years’ experience in delivering exceptional home care to people up and down the nation, we’re perfectly placed to offer you or your loved one support that is truly transformative and life-changing. With over 150 branches across England and Wales, we’ve always got expert carers local to you – whether you need complex care for a particular condition, respite care at any time of the day, or just some friendly companionship to help you get through the week.
And, for your full peace of mind, we’re fully regulated by the Care Quality Commission and Care Inspectorate Wales.
Nursing-led support
Fully managed care
Full range of care services
Flexible, bespoke support
Better than a care agency
As a private care provider, we can offer certain guarantees that most care agencies can’t.
Unlike most agencies, we employ our carers directly – which means we handle all of their wages and provide them with job security. Not only is this more beneficial for our carers, it also allows them to devote more time and energy to providing a better standard of care. It also means that you can be confident that every single one of our carers has been recruited, checked and trained by our care experts.
How do we provide elderly live in care at home?
With dedicated support at all times, live-in care will help you to get what you want out of life.
As with all quality care, a major focus on independence is key when supporting an older person at home. Rather than taking over absolutely everything, your dedicated live in carer will help to enable you in your daily routines and what you want to get out of life.
If you are prone to falls, living with a disability or a condition such as Parkinson’s, or need support with your mobility, your carer will help to reduce any trip hazards around the home. You’ll also have the peace of mind that someone is there to support if there is an accident or sudden emergency.
Exceptional carers, matched to you
We only hire the very best carers to our teams, because you deserve only the very best care.
Your carer will be carefully matched to you. They will be someone who makes you feel comfortable, and with whom you can build up an easy rapport. You may find them to be a good source of emotional support and a trusted companion. Our carers are also trained to use assistive technology, such as personal alarms, hoists and home adaptations.
Support of elderly living at home
Being supported at home by Helping Hands means you get the best of both worlds – the help you need to remain as independent as possible delivered by an exceptional team of care professionals, while continuing to live in the place you love.
You cannot underestimate the positive impact that living at home for your care can have on your emotional and physical wellbeing. By remaining amongst precious people, pets, and possessions, your favourite memories will always be at your fingertips, demonstrating why we are such advocates for supporting people in the comfort and safety of their homes.
In-home senior care
Senior care can be anything from helping you get into bed, to making you a tasty breakfast.
Senior care also extends to more thorough support, such as help with showering and washing, getting dressed or spotting trip hazards in order to prevent falls.
Senior care visits can be repeated throughout the day to ensure that the individual has everything they need to feel comfortable in their own home, safe in the knowledge that there is always someone they can rely on.
How to arrange elderly care
