Personal care
Personal care for elders is the support and supervision of daily personal living tasks and private hygiene and toileting, along with dressing and maintaining your personal appearance. It can also include helping with meal preparation, laundry and bed changing. It provides you or your loved one with the opportunity to receive discreet and sensitive one-to-one support from a fully-trained private carer.
Our carers can sensitively assist with personal hygeine to help you feel confident every day
With a carer, getting dressed and undressed can become
much quicker and simpler
Your carer can help you with brushing your teeth and other areas of oral hygiene
A carer can help you apply make-up, as well as helping with shaving and hair care
Good foot care is especially if you are diabetic and need to be extra vigilant with your feet
A carer can help with toileting, changing continence pads, and cleaning intimate areas
Our carers can help you to move position in bed to stretch and help avoid pressure injuries
Your personal carer can help change or maintain a stoma or catheter ba
At Graceden Healthcare Services, our carers are all fully trained to provide dedicated, person-centred home care that promotes your independence and lets you continue to live life on your own terms. Working to your regular routines and ensuring that support is tailored to your specific requirements, you’ll always receive personal care in the way that’s most comfortable and convenient for you.
Like all forms of care, support with personal care is built completely around your individual needs and personal routines. If you like to wash before breakfast or have a bath before going to bed, a carer will happily follow your schedule, letting you live the way you want.
With home care, you have the choice of having a visiting carer – someone who visits at set times of the day or even overnight – to provide the support you need. If you require ongoing support, it may be best to have a live-in carer, living at home with you to provide 24 hour care.
With live-in care, you’ll have the opportunity to have one our brilliant carers live in your home and offer 24/7 support
Our visiting care service gives you flexible, personalised support in your home at the times that you need it most
Our elderly care focuses on supporting the specific problems faced by elderly people, such as mobility, memory loss and more
We provide support to people of all ages and with all manner of needs, including younger people over the age of 18
We’ve got experts and specialists on hand to provide your loved one with gentle support.
Our carers are fully trained to offer specialist dementia care, including Alzheimer’s care. It is common for someone who is living with dementia to need support with personal care matters. But this can be difficult if that person is experiencing anxiety and confusion over who people are and shame and embarrassment over more intimate activities such as bathing and dressing.
Sometimes personal care matters can be difficult for a close family member or friend to carry out, with some feeling awkward about a change in relationship or uncomfortable about completing the more intimate tasks. In instances like these, it can be much easier for a trained carer who is accustomed to supporting with personal care to step in and help.
If you’ve been discharged from hospital, you may require personal care until you’re back on your feet
Living alone can make personal care routines more difficult, and increases the risk of injuring yourself
Those in the later stages of dementia may forget that they need to wash, or how to go to the toilet
Bad hygiene can affect your confidence and independence, but it’s nothing a Graceden Healthcare Services can’t fix
Call our team of experts to talk through your options and any questions you may have
Your local Graceden Healthcare Services manager will visit you to discuss your care requirements and preferences
We’ll help to match you with a carer who meets your requirements and has the right skills and experience
Here at Graceden Healthcare Services, our personal care is fully managed.
From your very first phone call to our friendly team, every aspect of your home care service is independently monitored and regulated by the CQC.
Graceden Healthcare Services Live in Regional
CQC overall rating
Good
16 August 2018
Regulation means that every aspect of our care service is independently monitored and assessed
We choose to provide a regulated service to provide our customers with full peace of mind
Regulation means that your care and your carers will be required to meet industry standards
Personal care is an umbrella term commonly used to define the range of services put in place to support an individual with personal hygiene and toileting, along with dressing and maintaining your personal appearance.
Personal care can include but is not limited to; bathing and showering, including bed-baths, applying lotions and creams as required, dressing and getting ready for bed, oral hygiene, continence care and much more.
Washing your hands is one of, if not the most important personal hygiene practice. While there are many other important aspects of personal hygiene, by far the most important step you can take to prevent the spreading of germs is washing your hands.
