If you’re looking into arranging live-in care for yourself or a loved one, it can be difficult to know where to start. The home care industry can be hard to navigate without experience, and with so many live-in care agencies offering various forms of live-in care services, it can sometimes feel overwhelming.
In this guide, we explain how to arrange live-in care, making the process easy and stress-free for you or your loved one.
Types of live-in care for the elderly
There are many live-in care agencies in the UK, each offering different types of live-in home care. It can be helpful to start by considering the type of care your loved one requires, so you can find a live-in care provider that can meet all your needs.
At Country Cousins, we offer a wide range of live-in care services with a focus on condition-led care that is tailored to the individual needs of each client. The live-in care services we offer include:
- Standard live-in care – is designed for those who need extra help around the home, primarily during the day.
- Advanced live-in care – caters to those who need full support and assistance in their home, primarily during the day.
- 24-hour care / overnight care – both provide nighttime support for those who require care throughout the night.
- Live-in care for complex health conditions – offers condition-led care from carers who are experienced and trained in the specific health condition of the client.
- Respite care – is short-term care designed to temporarily fill a care needs gap, such as covering for an existing caregiver who is absent.
- Reablement care/care after hospital discharge – supports those who are recovering from illness, injury or have just been discharged from hospital and require support until they fully recover.
- Palliative care – is compassionate end-of-life care that supports all the family.
- Couples care – cost-effective care for elderly couples that ensures they can remain living together, which is often not possible in residential care.
- Disability care – supports disabled adults of any age to live well at home and in their community.
To read more about how live-in care works, download our free guide here.
What can a live-in carer help with?
A professional caregiver’s role is to help people stay independent at home while ensuring they’re safe, healthy and comfortable. At Country Cousins, we provide person-centred care – meaning that the needs and wishes of the individual are paramount. With this philosophy, Country Cousins carers take a flexible approach to the care they give and can carry out a wide range of tasks.
Here are some of the tasks a Country Cousins carer can help with:
- Personal care. Such as bathing, dressing and toileting.
- Managing medication. Help to administer medication and health monitoring.
- Household tasks. Any reasonable help around the home, from cleaning, tidying, and doing the laundry, to walking the dog.
- Meal preparation. Home-cooked meals to ensure nutritional needs and any dietary requirements are met.
- Condition-led care. Support with existing health conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s and cancer.
- Mobility support. Help moving around the home safely with walking frames, wheelchairs and mobility aids such as hoists.
- Running errands. Such as collecting prescriptions, paying bills and doing grocery shopping.
- Companionship. The friendship and reassurance a live-in carer offers is invaluable to an elderly person’s well-being.
- Social activities and outings. Help getting out and about in the local area, arranging and accompanying to appointments, or simply a trip to the park.
How to arrange care for your elderly loved one
When you receive live-in care through Country Cousins, we take care of all the details for you, from understanding your needs and preferences and finding the perfect carer for you to carrying out checks on the carer’s professional references and qualifications. This means you can have peace of mind that you’re getting the best care available.
To arrange live-in care, just follow these simple steps:
- Call our friendly team to discuss your care needs on 01293 224 706. We will gather all the information we need to provide you with a no-obligation quote.
- We will help you arrange a care needs assessment which can be carried out at your home so that your loved one’s full care needs can be assessed and a personalised care plan can be created.
- When you’re happy to proceed we will carefully match you to a carer that has the skills and experience you need as well as meeting any preferences or wishes you may have.
- Live-in care begins and we remain in close contact with you and your carer to ensure that the arrangement is going well and can make any adjustments as needed.
Why choose live-in care with Country Cousins?
We have been providing compassionate live-in care to individuals throughout the UK for over 60 years. In fact, we are the longest-established introductory live-in care agency in the UK.
Our complete range of live-in home care services offers condition-led care that is fully tailored to the individual needs of our clients and provides the flexibility to adapt care as needs change. We also put great importance on matching the right carer to each client, as we know through our extensive experience that these factors greatly influence the success of the live-in care we provide and the satisfaction of our clients.
Here’s what some of our clients say:
Amazing service at a very difficult time of life for the elderly. The staff have been compassionate, caring, trustworthy and extremely helpful. The staff are very well matched to their clients and they have looked after my parents wonderfully. Lauren White has been exceptionally helpful, she is always efficient and helpful, quick to respond and a fantastic relationship executive.
Helen, August 2023
Arrange live-in care with Country Cousins today
We offer a free, no-obligation enquiry and quotation service through our friendly and knowledgeable care team. Call us today to arrange live-in care in just a few easy steps on 01293 224 706. Lines are open Monday to Friday, 8 am to 6 pm. Alternatively, complete our online enquiry form.
