What Is Visiting Care and How Does It Work?
Visiting Care allows you to continue living comfortably in the home you love
Visiting care is the support you need, when you need it, from skilled professionals who will help you to make the most of every day. Support from Helping Hands starts from just 30 minutes per week, delivered by your dedicated, local care team. We help thousands of people every day to remain as independent as possible in their beloved home, why not contact our customer care team and see how we could be helping you?
Visiting care can support you with:
Personal care
Discreet, dignified support for every aspect of your personal care, such as showering and going to the toilet
Meal preparation
Tasty meals, healthy snacks, whatever you enjoy eating, your carer can prepare it for you, and much more
Housework help
Whether it’s vacuuming, dusting, laundry or cleaning, your carer can put out the bins and do light weeding too
Medication support
Our carers are carefully trained in many areas, including medication support and administration.
Running errands
Our carers will pop to the shops or accompany you to the doctors, what you need whenever you need it
Mobility help
Helping you to stay safe at home as well as making the most of your local community or beloved garden
Why More Families Are Choosing Visiting Care
Visiting care from Helping Hands is popular because we’re known as the UK’s most trusted home care service. People come to us because of the exceptional quality of our carers, who are handpicked in each location for their experience and aptitude. When you need additional support to lead your daily life, you want to be sure that the people coming to help you are skilled and knowledgeable and have your best interests at heart.
It’s the excellent care and support Helping Hands gives me that enables me to carry on working and live a near as possible normal life.
Linda | A Trustpilot review
Key Benefits of Visiting Care for the Elderly
Visiting care has so many benefits for a person who wishes to remain living in their own home. We can offer services for a variety of different conditions, from the most straightforward to highly complex. We can even offer nurse-led care for our customers who need the very highest levels of support.
Personalised Support Tailored to Individual Needs
Your care is tailored around you with Helping Hands. We get to know you so that your support focusses on how you like to live and the condition you are living with.
Maintaining Independence While Receiving Assistance
We help you to maintain your independence by supporting your daily routine, such as housework, personal care, food preparation, and running errands.
Flexible Care Schedules to Suit Changing Requirements
Our care is flexible enough to change with your needs. If you have a change in circumstances, you can be reassured that your visiting care will change with you.
Emotional and Social Wellbeing Through Regular Visits
Loneliness and isolation are guests no-one wants at home, which is why having regular visits from your friendly carer can go a long way with companionship too.
Professional Help with Medication and Health Monitoring
Our highly trained carers will monitor your condition and administer your medication if necessary, as well as make sure you take it when you are meant to.
A legacy of kindness from Helping Hands
Because we’ve been supporting people to remain comfortably at home since 1989, you and your loved ones can trust that we’re the best qualified to support you.
I have a fantastic level of service from Helping Hands – the regular carers are great at providing a standard of excellence. I think that I have never been so happy with a care agency!
Virginia | A Trustpilot review
How to Choose the Right Visiting Care Service
You’re never on your own when you choose Helping Hands. From the moment you first contact us, you’re part of the family, and we’ll guide you through the entire care process, ensuring you get the support that’s right for you. Whether you need us for an hour or two, overnight or around the clock, we’ll support you with every aspect of your support needs. Because we’re the UK’s premier home care company, you’ll get unrivalled support from people who only know how to care, offering a range of services that can be tailored to your needs exactly. We source our visiting carers from your local area and endeavour to always send the same people, meaning you get to build up a relationship with them, and they get to know exactly how you like to live. Only through delivering such personalised service can we know that you’ll be in the very best hands with us.
