What is a personal care plan?
A personal care plan is personalised support around your hygiene and daily routines.
Personal care can support and supervise you with anything from dressing, bathing, grooming and toileting. We can help create a routine that adapts around you and can even help with more medically complex needs like catheter and stoma care. We can support you with all hygienic needs like washing, dressing, toileting and oral hygiene. We make sure you are well-dressed, clean and hygienically taken care of. Our personal care can help you retain your dignity, comfort and happiness within your own home.
Why is it important to have a personal care plan?
Personal care is important for everyone to live comfortably and independently.
Personal care can provide you with the opportunity to receive discreet and sensitive one-to-one support from a fully-trained and compassionate carer. Upkeeping appearance and hygiene is incredibly important for everyone’s all-round health and well-being. According to the NHS, poor hygiene can cause discomfort, skin complaints and infections, and can lower self-esteem. With our person-centred approach, we can help maintain your appearance, hygiene and personal health.
Do I need a care plan?
Our personal care plan may be the perfect choice for you if you experience trouble with the following:
What should an effective personal care plan include?
Personal care should look after the daily and necessary tasks to maintain an individual’s hygiene, appearance, and wellbeing.
Continence care
A carer can help with toileting, changing continence pads, and cleaning intimate areas
Stoma/catheter care
Your personal carer can help change or maintain a stoma or catheter bag, as well as general toileting
Bathing and hygiene
Our carers can help wash, bath or shower you to make sure you are hygienic, as well as wash your clothes.
Dressing
A carer can help with getting dressed every day while making sure you dress the way you like
Grooming
A carer can help you with make-up, shaving, hair care, nail trimming and applying skin creams and lotions
Oral hygiene
Your carer can help you with brushing your teeth, general oral hygiene and take you to dentists appointments
Medical care
We can apply dressings, medication administration, and application of medicinal creams
Bed care
We can help you to move position in bed to stretch, avoid pressure injuries and wash your bedding.
How can you develop your own self-care plan?
We can tailor a care plan for personal care to suit you! We offer live in care, visiting care and respite personal care to fit around your schedule. From stoma and catheter care to general bathing and dressing each morning, our carers are superbly qualified at handling both the medical side of things as well as the hygienic side. With our discreet care, you can retain the healthy, comfortable and dignified way of life you’re used to and with us, you’ll be in the best of hands – Helping Hands!
A personal care plan can help:
3 simple steps…
How to organise care
Speak to our team
Our friendly, knowledgeable team can answer your questions and talk you through your options. We are available 7 days a week.
Book a free care assessment
Your local Helping Hands care manager will visit you to understand your needs and preferences and discuss how we can help. We can visit you at home, in hospital or even a care home to carry out the care assessment.
Confirm your care package
We create a tailored care plan for you to review. Once you’ve agreed the plan, we can organise care in as little as 24 hours.
How Helping Hands can help
We offer live-in, visiting and respite care to help with your personal care needs.
Visiting Care
Live-in care
A fully regulated home care provider
Here at Helping Hands, our service is regulated by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW)
This means we need to consistently meet high standards and are monitored by our regulators.
