Multiple sclerosis care at home
A multiple sclerosis diagnosis can be life changing, but you can still be independent.
Multiple sclerosis (MS) can affect people in different ways, but with flexible home care you can stay in control over your life. We’re an award-winning homecare company providing nurse-led multiple sclerosis care throughout England and Wales. Our expertly trained and enthusiastic carers are helping people affected by the illness to live as independently as possible at home.
Your Helping Hands carer will support you in managing and living with the symptoms of your condition. According to the NHS, the most common symptoms of multiple sclerosis are:
What’s included in multiple sclerosis care?
Helping Hands’ holistic, person-centred planning processes ensure that the person with MS, who is planning for live-in care provision, is at the heart of the process every step of the way.
With MS care from Helping Hands, you’ll be matched with a carer who can support you with:
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With MS care from Helping Hands, you’ll be matched with a carer who can support you with:
Personal care
Personal care routines such as bathing, changing clothes, toilet trips or more complex support with a catheter, a stoma or bowel management
Administering medication
Administering medication and collecting prescriptions from the pharmacy, support with pain management when required
Preparing meals
Preparing and cooking meals and snacks to your tastes at the times that suit you, support with swallowing and liaising with your SALT
Household chores
Household chores, such as washing dishes, doing the laundry, lending a hand with the gardening, taking out the rubbish and doing the vacuuming
Running errands
Understanding your chronic fatigue, running errands such as collecting the shopping or picking up a prescription, and helping to manage key tasks
Providing companionship
Ongoing companionship – whether it’s chats over a cup of tea or sharing days out together, achieving and maintaining positive mental health is key
Person centred support, tailored to you
Bespoke MS care that focuses on supporting your independence in the home that you love.
When delivering your multiple sclerosis home care, we’ll focus entirely on your and your specific needs. Because there are many different forms of MS, people living with the condition have varying degrees of medical requirements, but they also have different care needs, routines and hobbies.
Whether you need visiting care or live-in care, finding a private carer who understands what makes you the person you are is an important step on your care journey. Our customers particularly appreciate that our MS care focuses on:
How we help customers with similar conditions
We love sharing stories from our customers about the difference our home care is making to their lives. Find out how we’re supporting two of our customers, Steve and Bill, to manage the symptoms of their condition through dedicated live-in care.
Bill
Live-in care customer
Steve
MS live-in care customer
Providing MS respite care
We’re able to provide multiple sclerosis care on a short-term basis in your hour of need.
If you care for a loved one who has multiple sclerosis it’s important to take some time for yourself. We can provide respite care from one of our experienced MS carers, giving you the peace of mind to take a break.
With MS respite care, support can be from as little as five days and up to many weeks at a time. Some of our customers use our respite service to sample our home care and see if it suits them.
Why choose MS carers from Helping Hands?
Each one of our carers goes through a rigorous selection process and training programme before joining the Helping Hands team. In fact, after nearly 30 years in training and recruiting carers, our training process is renowned as being one of the best and most thorough in the industry.
With a can-do attitude and a positive approach to multiple sclerosis home care, our carers are helping people to manage their MS symptoms each and every day. If you like, they can work with you to make plans for the things you want to do, even helping you plan days out and holidays.
All of our carers are:
Kind and compassionate
We understand that choosing MS care can be a hard decision to make, but our friendly, empathetic carers always make the process so much easier
Directly employed by us
As our MS carers are employed by us, they receive our support and training as needed, ensuring that you receive the highest quality of care at all times
Expertly trained and fully vetted
Every carer is fully DBS-checked and receives our industry-renowned training which equips them to provide a wide range of specialist care services
How to arrange multiple sclerosis care
Arranging dedicated home care has never been simpler. Call our team today to get the ball rolling on your care journey with Helping Hands.
Speak to our team
Contact our friendly team to talk through your needs and preferences
Free home care assessment
A local care expert will visit you at home to organise your support plan
Find your carer
We’ll find you a carer who is perfect for your needs and circumstances
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.
