Our Respite Care service is designed to provide emergency care cover or to allow your regular personal care assistant to take a break for their own health and well-being. However rewarding it may sometimes be, we understand that providing full-time care for the elderly can be very draining. Even if the carer is part of the family, it is no less stressful or demanding. Our Respite Care service is especially useful for emergency cover, when illness or an accident prevents you or your Carer from working, and you need to arrange trustworthy care assistance quickly.
Helping Hands Respite Care for the elderly or disabled is a modern full-time Live-in Care solution. Respite Care enables you or your loved one to stay at home in familiar surroundings whilst the regular care provider is away or unwell. There is none of the short term disruption or confusion that often comes with a move to a new unfamiliar environment, even if for only a few weeks.
For those that value their independence, that want to stay behind their own front door and not have to leave their cherished home or pets, even for just a few weeks, Respite Care is the perfect solution. A fully trained Live-in Carer lives in the home and provides bespoke one-to-one full time care and companionship. The Helping Hands Carer will follow an agreed care plan, personalised to the individual, for the duration of the service period, which is a minimum of two weeks.
Respite Care reduces anxiety
During the Respite Care period, our fully trained Carers will follow existing routines and timetables detailed in an individual care plan that will be produced in conference with you. Existing preferences for medications, meals and eating times, naps and favoured activities will remain unchanged, reducing the stress of change on the person being cared for.
Respite Care offers peace of mind
Respite Care from Helping Hands allows the family and the regular care provider to rest easy with the peace of mind that someone is always on hand; that someone is providing care, companionship and taking care of household chores whilst your normal care giver is away.
We know that Carers feel guilty or worry when taking a break, even if just for a couple of weeks, but you can rest assured with Helping Hands. Our experience of providing full time Live-in Care means that you could not be in better hands. Call us on 0808 180 9455 to discuss your needs and see how we can ease the transition of care until your regular Carer returns.