How to Get Emergency Respite Care for a Relative
What is Emergency Respite Care?
Respite care offers temporary support for when your normal carers are not available.
Emergency respite care can be necessary when you or a loved one are faced with an unexpected care situation. This could be because your regular carer falls ill and is unable to support you or because your condition has deteriorated temporarily, and you need additional support.
At Helping Hands, we’ll endeavour to offer expert respite help at home within 24 hours for a minimum of seven days. From the moment you speak with our expert customer care team, we’ll ensure you receive the respite care you need as quickly as possible.
When is Emergency Respite Care Needed?
There are many situations that could mean you or a loved one need emergency respite care. These include:
Your carer needs to take a well-earned break
Your loved ones want to go on holiday
An unexpected hospital discharge
The after-effects of an illness or accident
Your circumstances change temporarily
You need short-term support for another reason
The Benefits of Emergency Respite Care
Emergency respite care has many benefits, both physical and emotional. We’re the nation’s most trusted home care provider because we offer dedicated care tailored to you and delivered by skilled professionals in your own home. By having your respite care at home rather than having to move into a nursing or care home you get to remain in comforting and familiar surroundings, with the people and pets who mean the world to you close by.
How Quickly Can Emergency Respite Care Be Arranged?
At Helping Hands, we work tirelessly to get you the right carer in place, often within 24 hours. Whether you require visiting or live-in care, we’ll find the carer that will suit you best within your local branch team. Because we directly employ all of our carers — we’re not a care agency — we already know how good they are at supporting our customers and that they’re trained and screened to the very highest standards.
Cost of Emergency Respite Care
The costs of emergency respite care vary depending on the complexity of your care needs and location.
We’ll devise you a personalised quote so that you’ll always know just how much you’re paying. As a rule though, our care prices begin at the following:
Visiting respite care offers you flexible, personalised support throughout the week at the times that best suit you.
Live-in respite care is a cost-effective care solution that gives you round-the-clock support in the comfort of your home.
What to Expect from Emergency Respite Care
With emergency respite care, because your health is our priority, we’ll ensure that you have all the support you need, including housework, personal care, complex procedures, meal preparation, and medication management. Some of our customers only need respite care for a few hours a day or to cover when family need to take a break. However, many people choose to have around-the-clock, live-in care because it offers support with all the physical care tasks but also continual companionship so that you’re never at risk of isolation.
Your local branch team will coordinate your care and they’ll be on-hand for you whenever you need them. At Helping Hands, we go above and beyond to ensure that your carers are compassionate and attentive, meaning that you’ll receive consistent, responsive respite support at all times.
How to Request Emergency Respite Care
If you’re wondering how to get emergency care for elderly people, then contact our friendly team of customer advisors seven days a week.
They’ll listen to your requirements, suggest the best package of care for you and explain how we’ll assess your needs. We’ll make the process as effortless as possible for you. Believe us, it’s as easy as 1,2,3!
Speak to our team
Call our team of experts to talk through your options and any questions you may have
Free home care assessment
Your local Helping Hands manager will visit you to discuss your care requirements
Find your carer
We’ll help to match you with a carer who meets your preferences and has the right skills
How Emergency Respite Care Works with Helping Hands
Once we’ve allocated your carer, we’ll make sure they have all the skills they need to support you fully. That’s because we train all our carers in-house and regularly check that their skills are up to date. We’ll make sure that everything is going well for you and that your carer is meeting expectations, and then if you decide that you’d like your care to continue after your period of emergency respite, we can arrange that for you and make sure it’s a seamless transition.
We’ve been helping people for decades to get the very best support at home, focusing on practical and emotional support that encompasses the whole person. This holistic style of care comes naturally to us because we’re so experienced – no wonder we’re the UK’s most trusted home care provider.