As home care providers working in and around Chichester, we witness the challenges winter presents to elderly and vulnerable people daily. These difficulties include emotional and practical issues. But that doesn’t have to be the case. Our live-in care support services can help ensure comfort, safety, and well-being during the colder months.
We all suffer from a touch of the winter blues at this time of year. But if we are fit and healthy, have our family around us and can get out to see our friends, we can often overcome the feelings of SADness, (Seasonal Affective Disorder). But imagine living alone, having limited mobility, and being unable to access your social groups. Sadly, that’s the situation many people find themselves in.
Live-in care support can change all that. Our Chichester-based Care Professionals provide much-needed companionship and can ensure that your loved ones can still participate in their social activities in the winter months.
Icy paths and pavements make it even more difficult for people with limited mobility to get out and about in the winter months. Keeping a warm and safe home can also be challenging during freezing weather.
A live-in Care Professional can make all the difference in maintaining a safe home environment over the winter months.
Seasonal colds and flu-like bugs take it out of everyone. But for the elderly and vulnerable, they’re a real health risk that can develop into serious conditions.
As with most things in life, prevention is better than a cure. That often starts with eating nutritious meals. Live-in care support means your loved ones can enjoy healthy, balanced meals and, more importantly, company while eating them!
A live-in care professional monitors a client’s health. They’ll keep an eye on chronic conditions, like arthritis or respiratory issues, that can become much worse in winter.
We find that live-in care support offers peace of mind to our client’s families, who often live some distance from our Chichester coverage area, and can’t visit as much during the cold winter months when the days are shorter.
If you’ve been considering live-in care support for a loved one, here are a few questions clients’ families often ask—and the answers, of course!
Live-in carer costs are generally less than residential care (care in a care home). Prices start from £187.46 per day for live-in companionship care and vary depending on your individual care needs.
If you opt for live-in care, one of our Care Professionals will live with you in your home. They must have a bedroom where they can sleep at night, but they can share your bathroom.
Although your live-in Care Professional lives and sleeps in your home, they are not on duty 24/7. A day of care is ten hours. Your Care Professional works twelve-hour shifts, with two hours off during that shift. If you want to cover your live-in carer’s two-hour break, we can arrange a complete 24-hour care package by combining live-in care with additional support to cover breaks and overnight needs.
The following services in your live-in care plan:
In short, your live-in care professional will help you with anything you cannot do for yourself.
No, if you want to change from visiting hourly care to live-in care support for the winter months, we can arrange this as part of a tailored care plan.
We hope we’ve answered some of your questions about live-in care support. But if you have any others or are considering this option for yourself or a loved one as a permanent or temporary solution, please get in touch. We work with clients in and around Chichester.
