Local Support at Home Sutton

Your ageing parents need assistance for personal care, home maintenance and nursing care but think that these needs don’t merit their moving into an old age care home. Your parents are not as energetic and hardworking as they used to be in their heydays. Perhaps they are recovering from a surgery or illness and so find home cleaning, grocery shopping or cooking difficult to manage on their own. At this point in their life, you should contact someone for local support at Home in Sutton.

It is common for most people in their sunset years to struggle with daily household chores and personal care. As you cannot always be at home to take care of your ageing parents, a helping hand is needed to cater to their needs. Surely, hiring a care service provide will add to monthly expenses but quality of companionship and care provided by a trained professional is worth what the clients have to spend for the support.

Types of Local Home Care Service

• A helping hand to do housework, shopping and prepare meals
• Personal alarm system offering round-the-clock emergency cover if needed
• Door-to-door transport service
• Meals on wheels to serve delivered meal on your table
• Assistance with essential tasks such as, changing a light bulb
• Assistance with personal care such as toileting, bathing and dressing
• Night sleepers and sitters to keep your parents reassured throughout the night
• Live-in home care service to provide round-the-clock care and companionship

For an individual, it is really not easy to judge if a particular agency providing local support at home in Sutton aligns its service with the industry standard. Therefore, you can visit a social service department in your locality and request them to carry out an assessment. This will help you get a fair idea if the agency you are currently in touch with can meet your needs and expectations.

Choosing Local Home Care

First and foremost, it’s important to ensure that your parents feel comfortable with the caregiver. If you or your parents are paying out of pocket for care service instead of receiving fund via the local authority, you have more options to choose from. Still, there is no better alternative to a reputed care providing agency. Make sure they have qualified, trained and certified staff to provide outstanding and personalized support to those who need a helping hand in their post-retirement or post-surgery episode of life.

Ask the authority about their code of practice, the type of service provided by them, training, qualification and experience of their caregivers. Make sure they provide specific local support at home in Sutton as per your requirements. Also talk at length about their regular charges including overtime benefits.

You should also ask if the agency can offer a replacement if the caregiver falls ill suddenly or your parents have a problem with the professional. You should also make sure if the agency has a procedure in place to allow care recipients to register their complaints.

If you are looking for local support at home, contact My Homecare by sending email at surrey@myhomecare.co.uk or dialling 0208 337 9324.