A new local care service in London from leading home care provider, The Good Care Group
What is personal care
Personal care for elderly individuals is tailored specifically to your needs and consists of assistance with private hygiene, living tasks, and supporting you to feel your best with dressing and maintaining your appearance. Many individuals find it difficult to receive intimate care from family members; therefore, choosing our services may be the preferred choice for many, as a personal care plan will be developed to improve your health and wellbeing at home.
Personal care examples may include:
- Bathing and showering
- Haircare and shaving
- Medication administration
- Toileting
- Light housekeeping
- Meal preparation
- Seeing family and friends
What are the duties and responsibilities of a personal care assistant?
We want you to remain comfortable and confident in your own home, which is why our personal care assistants will support you with a whole host of different tasks and arrangements, including:
Bathing and Showering: Our carers will sensitively assist you with and supervise bathing and showering to ensure hygiene and safety.
Toileting and Incontinence: Assisting with toileting needs, such as helping you or your loved one to and from the bathroom, managing incontinence products, and ensuring cleanliness.
Skin Care: Regular checks of your skin to look out for signs of issues such as rashes, dryness, pressure sores, or infections. Early detection of these problems can lead to more effective treatment.
Oral Hygiene: We will ensure that your teeth and gums are kept healthy by brushing your teeth, flossing, and providing denture care.
Foot Care: If you are living with a condition that requires you to be vigilant with your feet, our home carers can support you with foot care.
Exercise and Physical Activity: Encouraging and assisting with exercises or physical therapy routines to maintain physical health and mobility.
Grooming: Our personal care assistant can support you with hair care, shaving, and applying your makeup to help you maintain your appearance and feel confident.
Nail Care: To prevent infections and ensure overall hand and foot health, our personal carer will help you to keep your fingernails and toenails trimmed and clean.
What is a personal care plan?
A personal care plan is a detailed and bespoke plan of action designed to meet your specific needs, preferences, and goals when requiring our personal care services. The outline of your care plan will be determined once you have had a complimentary home care assessment carried out by one of our care managers. This allows them to thoroughly assess your physical, emotional, social, and medical needs. Our in-house experts, consisting of a dementia expert and an occupational therapist, will also be available on an advisory basis when developing your care plan.
Personal care plans will be tailored to your schedule and routine and include, but are not limited to, your preferred times for activities, likes and dislikes regarding food, short term and long term goals for your care. This can be amended at any time and in line with any changes to your condition. Our care assistants are not here to take over but to give you the choice and flexibility to live your life the way you want.
Our personal home care services
Hourly Care
Regular care throughout the week
Our personal care service can be provided to you for as little as one hour per day, three times a week. This flexible option allows our carers to pop in at times that best suit you to provide support with hygiene, bathing, and grooming to ensure you remain healthy and confident at home.
Hourly care is a cost-effective choice that can address your preferences, well-being, and low care needs whilst incorporating a variety of tasks during each care visit.
Live-in Care
Around-the-clock care at home
Live-in care involves a personal care assistant residing in your home to provide round-the-clock support. This is suitable if you have a progressive condition such as Parkinson’s or dementia and require regular assistance. If you require specialist clinical care, our personal carers can provide this according to your needs.
In comparison to hourly care, live-in care provides continuous support, giving you and your loved ones peace of mind that you will receive personal care whenever required.
Why choose Cherished Home Care
We are a brand-new home care provider based in London, offering local, bespoke care to you in your home. We may be new, but we have the expertise, knowledge and experience of ‘Outstanding’ care provider, The Good Care Group, who work closely with our Cherished team to provide high-quality care, support and carer training.
Local to you
A dedicated team of care managers and carers who know London and the local areas.
Industry-leading carer training
Our carer training programme is created by our in-house experts - the same training delivered by The Good Care Group
Experts in care
A team of in-house clinicians including a registered nurse, occupational therapist and dementia expert.
Cost-effective care
Pay for the care you need when you require it with our market-leading rates.
Personal care that exceeds expectations
To ensure you remain comfortable and at ease in your home, our personal carers go above and beyond personal care to support you with a variety of tasks and arrangements, including:
Safe mobility
Ensuring you mobilise safely in and outside your home, managing any trip hazards and calling on our in-house occupational therapist for expert advice.
Companionship
Ensuring you always have a friendly face to talk to and to provide stimulating conversation and activities – whether that’s someone to visit the shops with or to discuss your interests.
Household tasks
Light housework, including vacuuming, laundry, cleaning the dishes, and dusting, so that you can relax and enjoy being in your home.
Medication support
Assisting with medication administration, which is recorded on a digital platform and closely monitored by your care team.
Pet care
Everything from taking your pooch for their daily walk, cuddles and fuss, to keeping them fed and watered and keeping their homes clean, too.
Food prep & cooking
Our carers are happy to prepare healthy, nutritious meals for you, but if you prefer to be involved in the cooking process, they’ll provide as much or little assistance as you require.
Social trips
Keeping you in touch with your local community, our carers can help you get out and about to see friends, attend social groups or simply go for a coffee and cake at your local café.
Complex care tasks
Overseen by our clinical experts, our carers can perform more complex care tasks, including assisting with PEG feeding, stoma care and blood sugar monitoring.
Gardening
Having a well kept garden can have a positive impact on your wellbeing, our carers can support with plant maintenance.
Costs of personal care
Our live-in care services are available from £1,445 per week, and our hourly care starts from £29 per hour. A detailed estimate of the cost will be provided once you receive your free home care assessment, conducted by one of our local care managers.
As a thank you, the start up fee will be refunded back to you after using our services for at least 4 weeks.
For couples, live-in care has proven to be the more financially prudent choice compared to care homes and, in some cases, domiciliary care. This is because a modest additional fee is applied for the second individual, rather than paying for two separate rooms in a residential care facility.
If you’re interested in contacting us, you can speak with one of our friendly care advisors by calling the number below. They will assist you in addressing any questions you may have.
Let us find you a trusted personal carer
1. Speak to us
Get in touch with our friendly care advisors today 0203 728 7572, and they will be able to answer all of your questions to help you make the right choice.
2. Free home care assessment
Our team can arrange a free home care assessment with your local care manager, where they can meet with you and assess your needs and requirements in detail.
3. Care begins
Meet your carers and begin your journey with Cherished Home Care. With minimal carer changes, you’ll soon be acquainted.