Elderly Home care - Care at Home Medway
Elderly Home care by Seniors Helping Seniors
Home care is sometimes called domiciliary care. The care is delivered in someone’s home setting by a carefully vetted carer with the right experience who has been matched carefully to the client’s needs. We visit people wherever their home is, whether you need care at home Rochester, Gillingham, Strood, Chatham or Cliffe and anywhere in between. Support can be for family for respite care, or for people who live alone. We visit at times to suit the client and we’ll do whatever the client would like us to do – no job is too big or too small.
Services range from a visit for an hour to help put the bins out for example, to staying overnight to help someone acclimatise after a hospital stay. Housework and help with the jobs people tend to struggle with is usually part of each care visit. The focus is always engaging the client.
Companionship care is different for every person and it’s about prompting and encouragement. Companions can be seen as personal assistants, because clients are very much in charge. Companions prompt clients to take their medication and check it is taken it accurately but Seniors Helping Seniors companions don’t administer medication.
Companions prompt someone to eat and help monitor nutrition by preparing meals with our clients. Companions prompt someone to get up, wash and they put clothes out for clients. (Companions don’t physically lift, bath, dress or ‘give medication’. Companions prompt clients and ensure compliance.)
Personal care services are coming soon to this office. Again, personal care services will be different for every person and Seniors Helping Seniors applies the same outstanding service levels to our personal care visits. Our carers have broad experience of dementia, supporting people with whichever type of illness and health challenges they face.
Our personal caregivers have ideal qualifications and experience. Excellence in medications, mobilisations, washing and dressing is sensitively delivered by the same person or a small team.
Homecare can also mean leaving the home. We like to help our clients maintain their physical activity and enthusiasm and we have suggestions for things to do and places to go, even if our clients are short on ideas, restricted or lack confidence.
What can care at home Rochester look like?
Visits to The Historic Dockyard, visits to the various festivals are dates in our clients’ diaries. Clients love to plan events. Visiting the many cafés in and around Rochester, walking and shopping are daily excursions. Walking and taking exercise with our clients is key because clients feel safe and in great company. Starting in Rochester, chatting about days when Chatham was the goal, often ends in with a drink looking out to sea close to the harbour.
Chatham is great to drive around because there is much to see and do even from the car. Our carers and companions have often lived in the area for years, so they can relate to the changes. Seniors Helping Seniors carers see everything from our clients’ viewpoint.
Our carers are great conversationalists. They judge mood well. They know what tunes to put on the car radio and they know when silence is appreciated. The discretion of our carers, which includes not wearing a uniform and driving comfortable unmarked cars, is appreciated by our clients wherever they are going.
image caption: thanks to E.Connell
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