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 Helping Hands, 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.
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 care home.
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
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.
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
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.
