A domiciliary care agency can provide care and support in the form of home care services in the familiar surroundings of your loved one’s home. Domiciliary care services are personalised for your loved one with the help and assistance of domiciliary care workers.
Abney & Baker, a domiciliary care company in Melksham and West Wiltshire, delivers home care services to help residents achieve household tasks or everyday tasks that they are no longer able to manage on their own. With the help of domiciliary care providers in your local area, your loved ones can achieve independent living in the comfort of their homes.
Cost of home care services
Care services can help maintain your loved one’s mental health by providing daily home care and support. Care assistants that stop by a couple of times a day or week can ensure that your loved ones’ care needs are met and they have a regular friendly check in. This gives you and your family peace of mind.
The cost of care at home depends on the type of care and the daily tasks you would like the care professionals to carry out. On average, you can expect essential home care services to cost around £25-£35 an hour.
Here are some real life cost comparisons of care at home compared to a nursing home or residential care home.
What are domiciliary care services?
Domiciliary care services in the United Kingdom are regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Domiciliary care providers offer a range of services within the comfort of your loved one’s home including dementia care, those suffering from mental health illnesses and those with physical limitations.
Social care professionals maintain domiciliary care standards set by regulating authorities such as the CQC to deliver quality domiciliary care services. There are a wide range of standardised personal care, residential care, social care, and domiciliary care services that are available to individuals that do not want to move to a nursing home or residential care home.
Who can benefit from domiciliary care services?
Domiciliary care assistance can be beneficial for anybody at any point in their life. Domiciliary care providers offer a range of services in a tailored care package designed around homes care services and specific help at home. The main goal of every care package is to help the individual stay at home and continue independent living – maintaining their physical and mental health.
Domiciliary care services cater particularly to the elderly and people who might need help with personal care and other issues due to their mental health conditions or physical limitations.
Some individuals might require domiciliary care workers to help them recover from an injury temporarily. Other individuals might need more care to help them throughout the day because they suffer from a chronic health illness such as Dementia or Parkinson’s.
Domiciliary care services are ideal for people who are:
Elderly individuals that want to maintain their independence and don’t want to move to a care home
Individuals that have a hard time achieving daily tasks such as dressing, washing, preparing food, and staying physically active at home
People with long term illnesses needing specific care visits and care plans
People with physical injuries that have made them temporarily inactive and need time to recover from these injuries
How can a domiciliary carer help you?
A domiciliary carer will visit your loved one at their home to assist with household tasks and everyday chores. Domiciliary care workers also assist in maintaining their personal care and daily cleaning habits to help them feel fresh and confident.
A trained carer can visit as frequently or infrequently as you and your family need – it may be once a day or once a week.
Here are a few of the services offered by domiciliary carers:
- Helping wake up and get out of bed in the morning
- Support with bathing & cleaning
- Help using the bathroom
- Preparing breakfast
- Reminding to take medication on time
- Support with shopping
- Performing chores around the house
- Preparing dinner
Help with getting ready and going to bed
The responsibility of a high quality domiciliary care agency is to help your loved one achieve independent living by providing care services to meet their personal needs.
Preparing meals & successfully managing housework
According to Jane Austen, “there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort”. Unfortunately, it is not easy for everybody to manage all of their housework by themselves all of the time. Not paying attention to the dishes and clothes in the laundry, or failing to maintain a clean home and keeping up with housework can all add up to making daily life more and more challenging. Domiciliary care services can help make sure that everything is up to speed on all of your loved ones’ housework so they feel more comfortable and happy.
Domiciliary care services can be especially valuable if your loved one would like to have friends over at their house. The domiciliary care service can make sure that everything is in order before the guests arrive making your loved one feel more confident. They can help them maintain a certain type of diet based on the doctor’s advice and will also ensure that your loved one is getting all the appropriate nutrients and medication based on the instructions provided by their GP or specialist.
Good companionship & pursuing leisure activities
The job of a domiciliary care worker is not just to help your loved one around the house. Loneliness and depression have become a part of our social system, and this can manifest itself in people both physically and emotionally. With support they can also help pursue leisure activities that your loved one finds interesting and enjoys.
Domiciliary care workers can help them overcome loneliness and depression by providing companionship care. Maintaining regular social and physical interaction with the care workers can help your parent / loved one maintain a much better state of mental health. The care staff can also become a source of comfort if you loved one is finding something emotionally or mentally frustrating or challenging.
Choosing domiciliary care services
Domiciliary care services provide a level of care to individuals to help them retain their independence at home. Some individuals might feel worried at the thought of permanently leaving their home to live in a residential care home so you can reassure them there are other options.
Carers can continue to support your loved one in the comfort of their own home.
If you’d like to find out how we can help your loved one do get in touch. Our West Wiltshire team is based out of Melksham covering the Devizes and Calne towns and surrounding areas.
Helping your loved one to continue living independently and confidently in their own home.
By providing a range of support at home, we’re helping many clients across Bath & North East Somerset and West Wiltshire retain their independence and stay in control in the comfort of their own homes.
Remember we’re always here if you want to chat about your care options. Just get in touch:
Call 0333 043 4880 – Email enquiries@abneyandbaker.com – Book a call here
