HEALTH
The elderly people prefer to be cared at home, not at a nursing facility or hospice Lily Mae Home Care, the only Turkish company in the UK that provides home care for the elderly, makes the lives of the elderly easier with its many services, such as assisting with bathing to cooking, shopping, to monitoring medication.
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he proportion of the elderly people in the UK population is increasing with each passing year; the population is rapidly aging. However, with the aging of the population, the elderly, who have difficulty meeting their physical needs as they get older, and who cannot live without support, need care. Lily Mae Home Care, founded by Alkan Özkan and Sarah Tyrrell who have gained many years of experience in healthcare and care services, offers services that will make life easier for the elderly in this process. Lily Mae Home Care Owner and General Manager Alkan Ozkan, who came to the
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UK in 2006 and has been working in the field of home care services since 2010, said, “We offer care to elderly people in their own homes. Because the elderly here do not want to go to nursing facilities and want to live freely in their own homes,” he says.
The only Turkish company providing home care services Lily Mae Home Care, the only Turkish company in the UK that provides home care in 2016, currently employs about 30 provides services to 50-55 people. Explaining that the majority of their employees are people coming from the NHS, Ozkan said, “There are people for whom we provide 24-hour care or people who only receive one hour of care each day. We offer services tailored to people’s needs.” Personal Care, 24/7 on-demand call service, daily checks, palliative care, medication management, daily life support, food preparation, social activities, etc. are only part of the services given by Lily Mae. “Under what we call personal care, the services include assisting with showers or baths, ablutions, administering their medication, cooking, and for some, cleaning; shopping, changing medicines when
