Live in care is often appropriate to facilitate a prompt and safe hospital discharge, which at a later date can be reduced as the patient re-adjusts to being back at home.  Our assessors are more than willing to come out to visit patients in hospital before they are discharged, so that a service can be agreed. Two thirds of all our live in clients have been referred via Social Services. Other sources of referral include Word of Mouth, GP’s and Age Concern.

We provide continous live in care support for many different reasons to many different types of people with varying needs. These would include the following :

Where specialist attention is required we have developed specific care training packages. For example, Helping Hands  currently have 2 members of staff that are qualified LDAF assessors and a number of staff working towards the LDAF Qualification.