Personal care is a term we use to refer to supporting you with personal hygiene and toileting, along with dressing and maintaining your personal appearance.

Some personal care tasks include:

• Bathing and showering
• Medication administration*
• Applying lotions and creams as required
• Dressing and getting ready for bed
• Oral hygiene
• Support with shaving
• Foot care, especially if you are diabetic need to be extra vigilant with your feet (not podiatry or nail cutting)
• Helping you to the toilet, including using a commode or bed pan
• Changing continence pads, along with cleaning intimate areas
• Support moving position in bed, to stretch and prevent bed sores

Care assistants are trained to provide all aspects of personal care, yet there may be some things you’d prefer to do for yourself - let us know.   
* Some exceptions apply subject to individual medical needs

We offer both regular and one-off support (1 hour weekly minimum) with the following tasks:

Companionship and Sitting Service

Isolation (even if perceived) and loneliness can be overcome by our companionship and sitting service.  Our friendly care assistants will build a rapport and often become good friends with your loved one. 

Cleaning services and vacuuming

Our care assistants can carry out many tasks such as washing dishes, vacuuming, cleaning bathrooms, oven cleaning and even dusting.

Laundry and ironing

We will be able to complete your laundry and ironing, as well as any other duties you may need help with.

Overnight [Waking and Sleeping]

Overnight care can ease yours or your loved one’s anxiety about being alone at night.  It also helps in many other ways, including:

• Support with administering medication through the night
• Assisting with toilet breaks
• Regular help for changing position in bed, particularly after an operation or injury
• Better overall health by being able to rest through the night
• Someone on hand for those living with progressive conditions such as dementia
• Extra peace of mind for your family knowing someone is on-hand

Above all else, finding reliable overnight care is sometimes the deciding factor in allowing people to stay in their own home, rather than considering residential care.