Care in your own home

Carefully chosen home care with a good-quality provider is an excellent way to retain your freedom and independence, whilst getting the help you need to stay happy and safe. It can offer the opportunity to stay at home, in your own familiar surroundings, and to retain a quality of life you might have feared you had lost.

Why choose home care?

Reasons for choosing home care can vary. Sometimes after a stay in hospital, someone might find they need some help whilst they recuperate. Others can find that a long-term condition or disability means they can no longer cope and they need a bit of help.

After a stay in hospital, someone may carry out an assessment of your situation to see if home care will benefit you. You and your family will be fully involved in looking at what will suit you best if you’d like them to be.

Alternatively, you or those close to you might notice changes in your ability to manage the day-to-day things you normally cope with easily, like preparing meals or looking after yourself. If this happens, contacting Adult Social Care is a good first step towards finding help.

How home care can help you

The level of home care provided can be tailored to meet your needs – from a visit once a day to a much greater amount of support.

Even those with quite significant and debilitating medical conditions can get skilled personal care that can enable them to stay in their own homes. Some agencies will provide live-in care, where a care worker will stay with you at home to support you throughout the day and night. See below for more information about live-in care.

A list of all home care agencies operating in Surrey starts on page 27.

Live-in care

Live-in care is a viable alternative to residential care, where a fully trained care worker lives and works in your own home to support your individual needs and help you maintain your independence. The carer must be allowed breaks and have somewhere to sleep at night.

Support available from live-in carers can range from personal care and mobility assistance to more complex health requirements, as necessary. The cost of live-in care varies depending on your circumstances, including the level, type and duration of care that you require.

Any organisation that employs live-in carers is required to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and ensure that its employees follow the essential standards of quality and safety in their practices. For more information about the CQC, see page 63.

We are a highly successful CQC registered domiciliary and 24/7 Live-in Care Agency, we also recruit international Healthcare Professional Candidates.

Domiciliary care is also known as in-home care with care provided in the comfort of your own home. Providers can specialise in dementia care, mental health conditions, personal care, physical disabilities, sensory impairments and caring for adults under or over 65 years old.

For many people, it’s a much better alternative to the prospect of going into a care home or at least, it can delay a move into sheltered housing or a care home. In-home care offers you stability so you can maintain contact with friend, family and don’t have to worry about leaving your beloved pet! www.marielle24-7healthcareservices.co.uk

Services we provide: getting in and out of bed maintaining personal appearance help and support with toileting and using continence aids day-to-day tasks (preparing meals, picking up prescriptions, shopping, and more) help with eating and drinking health-related tasks, as agreed with medical practitioners or community nurses nursing care from a registered nurse helping with money (managing and paying bills, as well as, collecting pensions) getting out of the house and meeting friends supervision and companionship