What is live in care for couples?
Live-in care for couples offers you and your partner personal, dedicated care at home.
With live-in care, one of our wonderful carers will come to stay with you in your home and provide you with constant support and companionship at all times. Your carer can assist in virtually any way you wish – whether that’s keeping on top of the housework, helping you with mobility, accompanying you out and about or enabling you to maintain your favourite hobbies and activities.
Live-in care is ideal for couples who wish to remain living together when one or both of you require additional support but do not wish to move into residential care.
Stress-free live in care for both of you
We know your care needs are unique to you, so we offer fully tailored support in your home.
If you and your partner are finding it hard to manage on your own, live-in care is the perfect solution if you feel that residential care isn’t quite right for you. The home that you live in is the haven that you have built as a couple and a family, and here at Helping Hands we understand how important it is for you to hold on to this as long as you can. That’s why we provide a personalised live-in care service that works around you both to give you the support you need to remain in the place you know and love best.
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.
The benefits of live in care for a couple
A live-in carer allows you to continue living together in the home that you love.
There are many reasons why couples choose live-in care, but perhaps the most important reason is because it enables you and your partner to stay together. Whether you’ve been in your home for six months or 50 years, it is still the place that makes you feel the most comfortable and safe. Here are some of the many benefits of having a live-in carer as a couple:
Continue living together
Being able to receive all the extra support you need without having to leave your home means you can continue to enjoy each other’s company every day
Enjoy your own home
Enjoy all the benefits of being in your own home – your favourite views, your own furniture and furnishings, the familiar neighbourhood, and more
Choose when to see loved ones
Your family and friends can still come and go as normal, and you’ll also be able to visit them with the support of your carer
Flexible support to suit you
Your private carer be able to support you as much or as little as you like, and can focus on helping with certain things if you’d find that useful
Maintain hobbies and routines
Whether you enjoy meeting friends for a cuppa, going to church or playing board games, you can continue with your favourite hobbies and routines
Friendly companionship
Whether it’s sharing meals, watching TV or enjoying days out, our carers make for fun, friendly companions and often become friends for life
How can a live in carer support you at home?
Live-in carers can help with a range of everyday tasks to support you at home.
A live-in carer is able to assist with physical, practical and emotional support to suit your needs and wishes. All of our carers are expertly trained to help out with many areas of your daily routine, such as:
Completing household chores
Your carer can take care of all the time-consuming and energy-draining chores like vacuuming, tidying, gardening and more
Medication assistance
Every Helping Hands live-in carer receives full training in organising and administering medication
Personal care
Get discreet, sensitive assistance with personal routines such as bathing, dressing, continence and stoma management
Preparing meals
Your live-in carer can prepare tasty and nutritious meals, snacks and drinks at the times of the day that best suit you
Help getting out and about
As well as supporting you at home, your live-in carer can also accompany you out and about – and even go on holiday with you
Mobility support
A carer can help you get in and out of bed, adjust your position to avoid sores and help you moved safely around your home
A cost-effective solution to care
For a couple, live-in care can be a cost-effective way to receive the support you need.
When looking at the different care options available for couples, price is often one of the most influential factors in the decision-making process. But with live-in care, you do not need to pay for the space of two people like you do with residential care; you pay for a carer’s time and a package of 24-hour care that’s completely tailored to you.
Live-in care pricing
With live-in care from our 24 hour care team, our prices are a fraction of that, starting at £2,125 per week for a couple.
Roughly £2,125 per week
Residential care pricing
For a couple, care home prices can rise to over £2,000 per week, based on the weekly cost of roughly £1,000 per person.
Roughly £2,000 per week
We take care of your carer
It takes a special combination of patience, empathy and compassion to be a Helping Hands carer.
That’s why we’re extremely proud of our exceptional people and why we’re trusted by so many families to provide care and companionship to those who need support, across the country.
We make sure we continue to support our people after the join us, so they can deliver at their best for you, the customer. In 2024, we were recognised by the Financial Times as a Top 500 employer.
We directly employ all our carers
Every Helping Hands carer is directly employed by us, meaning everyone receives holiday pay, annual leave and pension contributions.
A supportive culture
We ensure our carers have access to dedicated managers and the help and support they need to carry out their role.
Comprehensive training and ongoing development
Our comprehensive training ensures our carers are fully ready to provide a wide range of support to customers from day one while our professional development programme ensure our carers can continue to develop their skills and access opportunities.
Reward and recognition
Our carer Reward and Recognition Programme – Moments of Kindness – celebrates the impact of small gestures and the actions of carers who go the extra mile to create joy, raise a smile, or offer reassurance or a sense of calm. Winners receive shopping vouchers and are featured in our magazine, Voices.
Personalised support that keeps you together
When you’ve shared most of your life with your partner, it’s only natural to want to stay with them and enjoy life together when you are in need of a little extra support. That’s why we provide personalised live-in care packages to give you the support you need at home, with your partner by your side.
Designed around both of your requirements, we’ll create a person-centred care plan that adheres to your unique care needs – whether one of you has dementia and needs more intensive support than the other, or if you’re both elderly without any serious health concerns but just need extra support with everyday tasks. Live-in care means that you don’t have to go through the heart-breaking upset of leaving a loved one to move into assisted living.
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.
Why is being a regulated care provider important?
Independent inspections of our service, giving you peace of mind
Fully vetted, high-quality carers
Guaranteed training and development for our staff
Page reviewed by Kathryn Mahon, Regional Clinical Lead, on July 25, 2024.
How we wrote this page
This page has been produced referencing key insights and data from external experts, trusted medical sources and our team of in-house specialists. We have worked hard to ensure that all information is as accurate as possible and reflects current consensus at the time of writing and reviewing.