Flexible Support in Your Own Home

  • While Garland Lodge primarily provides supported living services, we also offer flexible care options for individuals who may not require a supported living placement but still need structured, personalised support.
  • Our alternative care services are designed to promote independence while ensuring safety, dignity, and wellbeing within the person’s own home or community setting.

What we offer

Personalised one-to-one support

Visiting support tailored to individual needs

Short-term or transitional support packages

Step-down support following hospital discharge or placement breakdown

Structured support for individuals with complex needs

All support is delivered by trained staff using person-centred planning, Positive Behaviour Support (PBS), and trauma-informed approaches where appropriate.

Care in your own home – the best alternative to care homes

Specialist care in your home gives you bespoke, one-to-one support from an expert carer.

When the need for extra support arises, many believe the only option is a nursing home or residential care home. But there is a real alternative: specialist care in your home from a fully trained career.

At Garland Lodge, we provide the full range of care services in the home, from the round-the-clock support of livin-care through to visiting support when you need it most. By choosing Helping Hands over a care home, there’s one unique difference: constant care and companionship from a career who’s completely dedicated to you.

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The benefits of receiving care at home

Home care offers a number of unique benefits that residential care simply can’t give you.

We’ve been caring for people in their own homes for three decades. From our many years of experience, we firmly believe that if you want to stay at home to receive care, you can, regardless of where you are in the country or the condition you’re affected by. You don’t have to move into a residential care home, but can instead enjoy the multiple benefits of opting for a home care service over a supported living.

 

  • Receiving support in your own home allows you to:
  • Maintain familiar surroundings
  • Stay connected to your community
  • Retain independence and choice
  • Receive consistent, personalised support
  • Our focus is always on enabling individuals to develop skills, build confidence, and achieve meaningful outcomes.
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STAY IN THE HOME YOU LOVE

Stay in the environment you're most familiar with, surrounded by familiar furnishings, fond memories and maybe even a furry friend.

RECEIVE ONE-TO-ONE SUPPORT

With care at home, you'll receive one-to-one support that can be nurse-led and is designed around your specific needs and preferences.

KEEP UP YOUR NORMAL ROUTINES

Home care allows you to maintain your daily rituals and routines, such as eating your favourite meals and going to bed at the times that you like.

ENJOY YOUR FAVOURITE HOBBIES

Whether it's watching your favourite TV shows, painting or gardening – your carer is there to support you to continue all your favourite hobbies.

SEE FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Unlike in a care home, your loved ones can visit whenever you choose – and your carer can also help you visit them, if you wish to.

HAVE ONGOING COMPANIONSHIP

Ongoing companionship from a friendly, compassionate carer who fits best in your life and who's chosen by you.

Every Helping Hands carer is fully trained to support people with a wide range of conditions.

Whether you’re living with a type of dementia, are recovering from surgery, or are simply experiencing age-related frailty, we’ll be able to provide you with a care plan that fully supports you. Our friendly and professional carers can even offer the same nurse-led support that you receive in a care home – whether that’s assistance with catheters, stomas, PEG feeding, and much more.

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What are the alternatives to a care home?

We believe that live-in care is the best alternative to a care home, because it gives you or your loved one the opportunity to retain your independence whilst receiving the dedicated one-to-one support you need. With live-in care, you’ll have a full-time carer living in your home with you and providing you with personalised care day and night.

VISITING CARE

Offering you a suitable type and level of care that allows you to keep living independently in your own home.

MOVING IN WITH FAMILY

Leaving your home and living with a relative who will give companionship and help out with your daily routine.

SHELTERED HOUSING

The person needing care will either buy or rent a small apartment in a supervised block.

RETIREMENT VILLAGES

Housing developments designed specifically for elderly care, usually supervised by an on-site warden.

A personal and consistent approach

  • Consistency and trust are central to effective care. We aim to provide stable support teams so individuals can build positive, professional relationships with the staff supporting them.

Our approach ensures:

 

Continuity of care

Collaborative planning

Regular reviews

Clear communication with families and professionals

A more personal service than a nursing home

With one-to-one support at home, you’re always at the centre of your carer’s attention.

In a nursing home or elderly care home, you are one of the many people receiving care. Staff rotation is common, which makes it difficult for residents to benefit from individual attention or build a rapport with those providing care.

Consistency is hugely important in any form of care. Unlike care homes and many home care agencies, we don’t rotate our carers. It means our customers build a relationship with their carer and the carer really starts to understand and listen to their needs – resulting in a more person-centred, bespoke care service.

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