What are home care services?
Home care services encompass a range of supportive services provided in the comfort of a person’s home. These services are designed to support individuals who may need help with daily activities due to age, illness, disability, or recovery from surgery.
Some key aspects of home care services include:
- Personal care: Support with bathing, dressing, grooming, and other personal hygiene needs.
- Household support: Help with cleaning, laundry, and meal preparation to ensure a safe and comfortable living environment.
- Medication management: Ensuring medications are taken as prescribed, including reminders and organisation.
- Mobility assistance: Support with getting in and out of bed, moving around the home, and engaging in physical therapy exercises.
- Companionship: Providing emotional support and social interaction to help reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation.
These services can be tailored to meet the specific needs of each individual, allowing them to maintain their independence and quality of life while receiving the care they require.
Your home is best for a fulfilled life
Through our experience of supporting thousands of people and their families, we know that most people who need long-term care and support would prefer to stay in the safety, comfort and familiarity of their treasured home and not endure the disruption caused by a move away.
For many, a move from home can cause much upset, worry and confusion. Having routines imposed on how you live, leaving your loved one, and feeling isolated from family and friends or your local community are common concerns experienced by those facing a move into a care home, specialist care setting, hospice or facing a prolonged stay in hospital.
Staying at home with the support of a home carer means that you can continue to live life your way, while benefiting from one-to-one care provided by a competent and compassionate carer whose focus is to improve the quality of your life and enhance well-being.
When should you consider home care?
Home care is a valuable option when day-to-day tasks become overwhelming. If you find yourself needing assistance with meal preparation, personal hygiene, or household chores, it may be time to seek extra support.
Here are some situations in which you should consider home care services:
- Struggling with daily routines: A carer can help you manage daily tasks, from handling household chores to providing sensitive personal care.
- Preferring to stay home: Home care offers a comforting alternative to moving to a care home, allowing you to remain in the familiar environment you love.
- Requiring mobility assistance: A carer can support you in getting in and out of bed, moving confidently around your home, and even helping with any prescribed exercises.
- Living with a complex condition: Our trained carers are equipped to assist individuals with specific medical needs, ensuring you receive the specialised support you require.
- Needing help with outings: Your carer can accompany you on trips, whether it’s visiting friends, going shopping, or enjoying a weekend getaway.
- Feeling lonely or isolated: Our carers are chosen for their kind, friendly nature, providing not just care but also companionship to help brighten your day.
What do our home care services include?
Types of home care services
Hourly care
Our hourly care service offers flexible support from a competent and compassionate carer, allowing you to enjoy a fulfilling life in the comfort of your own home. Whether you need help for a few hours a week or several times a day, our carers are here to assist you.
24-Hour care
For individuals with complex needs, we provide our high-quality 24-hour home care services around the clock. This continuous support ensures that you receive the care you require, day or night, while remaining in a familiar environment.
Respite care
If you are a family carer in need of a break, our flexible respite care services are designed to give you the time to recharge. We offer temporary support, allowing you to focus on your own well-being while ensuring your loved one is well cared for.
Adult care
We understand the importance of maintaining dignity and independence while receiving care. Our dedicated team of carers offers compassionate adult care and support, empowering adults to live fulfilling lives in the comfort of their own homes.
Why choose Prestige Nursing & Care
There are many compelling reasons why our clients and professionals involved in procuring specialist home care are reassured when they choose our home care services:
Expert nurse-led care
Our nurse-led care enables people living with any complex condition to live well in their own homes with improved health outcomes. Our highly trained professional teams are supported by clinical experts and registered nurses, who provide unrivalled monitoring and supervision to ensure the clinical care provided exceeds the very highest standards.
We adopt a holistic, responsive and flexible approach to care and support planning, ensuring plans are tailored to not just to meet an individual’s everyday care needs, but also enhance everyday life.
Highly trained, competent and compassionate carers
People are at the heart of everything we do. We know how important it is for you to have a carer who truly understands your needs, not just your care needs but your emotional, psychological and well-being needs too. We take time to make sure that the carer who cares for you is trained to support your specific condition, but is also aligned to how you wish to live your life, so you can have an enhanced and fulfilled life.
They will adopt a compassionate approach to care that considers not just the person receiving care but all the family, as we know through our experience how valuable this support is for everyone.
Collaborating and partnering to care for you
We work in partnership with healthcare professionals, case managers, families and personal injury lawyers to ensure we have an in-depth understanding of a clients’ needs. Our expert clinical teams will conduct a professional assessment of needs and assign the best team of competent and compassionate carers to meet those needs.
Our care teams are supported by a care manager and an experienced nursing team at a local level. This ensures ongoing monitoring, clinical oversight and support of the service we provide, communicating progress so you can be reassured that your client or loved one is in the safest hands and receiving the highest quality care.
Responsive local teams with nationwide coverage
We provide care and support in over 30 locations in the heart of communities across England and Scotland. The fully managed service we provide is highly responsive and our experts local to you can put care packages in place quickly, working in collaboration with local healthcare professionals, multidisciplinary teams, therapeutic care providers and other community support services. We know this holistic approach ensures our clients get the best out of life, for all of life.
Quality assurance through regulated care provision
Prestige Nursing & Care is not an agency. Unlike a home care agency, we provide a fully regulated home care service, which means our clients, their families and our professional partners can be assured that the care and support we provide is of the very highest quality.
Our service is inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in England and the Scottish Care Inspectorate (SCI) in Scotland. We are proud that 96% of our inspected services have been rated as providing a ‘Good’ service, with 4% rated ‘Outstanding’ and our services in Scotland have a five-star rating.
Our accredited service for complex care meets local and national quality standards and ensures a consistent approach to care delivery, providing families with peace of mind and reassurance.
How to arrange home care services
Call us on 0808 239 1525 and our friendly care experts will discuss your care and support needs. You can also fill out our online enquiry form or email info@prestige-nursing.co.uk. We provide impartial guidance and advice so you make the right choice for you and your family.
Arranging home care services with Prestige Nursing & Care is easy. Just follow these three steps:
1. Consult with our team
Reach out to our knowledgeable team to discuss your options and address any questions you might have.
2. Free home care assessment
A local care manager will come to your home to discuss your needs and preferences so we can create a bespoke care plan for you.
3. Meet your carer
We’ll assist you in finding a carer who aligns with your preferences and possesses the skills and experience necessary for your care.