Our Services
Quality home care services for you or your loved one
When should you consider hiring a carer to provide home care?
Our home care services’ adaptability allows you to live safely and comfortably in the location you know best: your own home. There are a lot of homecare services available, even on an hourly basis for a short time. These services range from daily or weekly care visits to having a live-in carer.
The ultimate purpose of home care is to encourage independent living that fits you, and your personalised care plan will reflect your specific needs to ensure that your support is fully focused on you, with as little or as much support as you require.
What exactly are home care services?
Our home care services’ adaptability allows you to live safely and comfortably in the location you know best: your own home. There are lots of homecare services available, even on a short-term, hour-by-hour basis, ranging from daily or weekly care visits to the dedicated support of a carer.
The entire aim of home care is to encourage independent living that fits you, and your personalised care plan will reflect your specific needs to ensure that your support is fully focused on you, with as little or as much support as you require.
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Southood Care is happy to come out and examine your care and support needs in order to provide you with an accurate quote. This will be 100% free with no conditions attached.
Home care services that are regulated.
Although not every homecare provider is regulated, by selecting a regulated provider, you are choosing a service that is supervised by a trained care manager and their committed team to support you and your family.
This means your carer’s compensation, as well as their training and assessments, are handled on your behalf, as are frequent inspections and supervisions to ensure you’re getting the finest care possible. You also get assured coverage when your carer takes a respite break or goes on vacation, which is all taken care of for you.
Southood Healthcare has CQC-registered managers and clinical professionals who have all been trained by the NHS to help you or your loved ones, whether you need visiting care, live-in care, care at home, or care that is more complex.
When should home care be considered?
There is no specific time, health condition, or diagnosis for considering professional home care services. It’s just when you think you need more help to do things like make food or live your life the way you want.
Many individuals schedule home care at first to assist them with modest housekeeping tasks such as cleaning, changing beds, vacuuming, and food preparation—especially after leaving the hospital.
They may then increase the frequency of visits and call lengths to assist them with personal care, transportation to appointments, and companionship. This might potentially progress to 24-hour live-in or overnight care.
Anyone over the age of 18 can seek home care, and we can also provide care to support specific conditions, such as industry-accredited dementia care. By choosing home care, you also choose to stay in the environment you know and love rather than relocating to a local care home.
What can a home care service do for me?
There are several aspects of home care that can assist you—or both of you if you live with a spouse or partner. Home care not only assists you directly, but it also gives further confidence to family members who cannot always be there that you are receiving the support you require.
Our homecare services include the following advantages:
- Keeping one's independence
- Living at home rather than entering residential care
- Support tailored to your unique needs and interests
- Personalised care on your terms
- Keeping home amenities, such as living with pets
- Being connected to your neighbourhood and friends
- Support that is adaptable and can alter as your needs change.
- Palliative care and end-of-life care
- Support for learning impairments, dementia care, and other complicated care needs that are condition-led
How to make arrangements for home care
Scheduling care is just a phone call away with a dedicated customer team who will go through all of your needs with you and organise a consultation with a local care manager—arranging home care for you or a loved one couldn’t be easier.
If you believe that in-home care is the best option for you, please contact our friendly staff right away. You may also contact us via email to schedule a free, no-obligation evaluation at your house.
Our care team will come to your house to discuss your care needs and the sort of carer you choose.
Using the information gained during your evaluation. A customised care plan will be developed.
We will find a group of carers that we believe will best meet your needs. We will then email you a profile of each carer, and you will select whether or not to hire them.
Your carer will start caring for and supporting you.
How much does care cost?
Understanding your homecare financing choices can be difficult, which is why we aim to make things simple.
We realise how difficult it may be to plan care for yourself or a loved one. That is why, when it comes to expenses, we will strive to keep things as simple and straightforward as possible. We are:
- Our home care charges are upfront and clear. There are no additional costs or long notice periods.
- Because we are not a care agency, there are no agency fees or retainers to worry about.
We accept direct payments.
We can take top-ups to your social services payments if you receive them and have chosen direct payments.- Home care expenses will vary depending on your needs.
Visiting care is charged on an hourly basis, but live-in care, or “24-hour care,” is priced on a daily basis for short-term respite or a weekly basis for continuous care. We can talk about what level of care is best for you and whether the expense of home care is financially feasible for you and your family.
Although the majority of our families pay for their care privately, you may be able to obtain home care funding through your Local Authority . In these circumstances, we collaborate with the funding agency to acquire the assistance you require and improve your quality of life at home.