Personal Care
Personal care in the comfort of your own home
When it becomes clear that either your loved one or parents are struggling with the day-to-day tasks of maintaining their own personal hygiene, dressing, toileting and their own appearance it can be an unsettling time for families. Personal care can be difficult for family members or those close to you to carry out, particularly the more intimate tasks or those that require specialist clinical intervention, like changing a catheter or maintaining a stoma bag.
At HCare Group our expertly trained carers can provide sensitive and respectful personal care focused on ensuring dignity and independence, in the familiar surroundings of your own home. Our highly personalised care plan will capture all your needs and particular preferences including how, when and where you would like the care and support you need, working together with your routines and lifestyle. There really is nowhere better to receive personal care – than in your own home.
What is personal care?
Personal care in the home is a very broad term used to describe a number of different areas of care and support a carer will provide, and includes:
Bathing and showering
Our carer will ensure that you are able to enjoy a much-loved bath again, with your chosen relaxing bath products or regularly take a shower, whilst providing you with the physical support and comfort you need.
Dressing and getting ready for bed
We appreciate that this routine task can become challenging as we get older, but with the discreet support and gentle encouragement from a personal assistant, means you no longer need to be as concerned about this each day.
Foot care
Our carer will ensure your nails and feet are tip top! They will monitor your needs to ensure your nails are well maintained, feet are cared for including providing relaxing pedicures and, if you are diabetic and need more specialist care, our professional carer will ensure a robust regime of quality foot care in partnership with local chiropodists.
Hair and beauty
We know how important it is for self-esteem for you to maintain your personal appearance. Our professional carer will ensure your hair is clean and styled to your personal preference, whilst arranging for visits from a home hairdresser or facilitating a trip to the hairdressers for treatments and cutting. Carers will support you to continue to wear your make up and enable you to shave, just as you always have.
Oral hygiene
Nothing is more important than oral hygiene as we get older to minimise infections and maintain healthy teeth and gums. Our carer will support you to maintain excellent daily oral hygiene, whilst facilitating regular visits to the dental practice or visits from the dentist at home.
Applying creams and lotions
Whether you need specialist creams applied regularly or simply like to have a daily refresh with a body cream to maintain skin moisture and reduce dryness, our carer will monitor and support your skin routine.
Assisting you with toileting
Our carers are trained to be sensitive and compassionate when supporting people to visit the toilet. If you wear continence pads, our carers will vigilantly monitor the changing of these, whilst providing gentle encouragement and support, ensuring a healthy routine is maintained to eliminate any possible infection and sores. If you need a bed pan or use a commode our carer is on hand to support your needs any time of the day.
Bed positioning
It is important if you always spend significant amounts of time in bed that you comfortable. Our carer will ensure you are moved frequently and are encouraged to undertake some mobility stretching as much as you are capable, all of which will prevent uncomfortable bed sores.
In addition to personal care for elderly, our carers are on hand to provide other care and support in your own home, including help with domestic tasks, monitoring and management of medications, compassionate companionship and meal planning and cooking – all the routines you have can be maintained with the support of a home carer.