What is personal care?
Personal care is the help and support of a professional carer to carry out everyday living tasks, such as maintaining private hygiene, toileting, washing, grooming, dressing and taking care of one’s personal appearance.
Personal hygiene plays an essential role in staying happy and healthy. Personal care is important because feeling well cared for, clean and well-groomed greatly affects a person’s comfort, overall well-being, self-confidence and health. Good hygiene is critical for health and helps to control and prevent illness, such as skin infections and bedsores, in the elderly.
A Country Cousins personal carer can assist with a number of daily tasks, not just personal care related to sensitive private tasks such as toileting and showering. Home care support with Country Cousins is tailored to the needs of each individual and can incorporate support with a health condition, help to maintain the home, companionship and much more.
What does personal care include?
Personal care with Country Cousins can help your loved one with a range of personal care tasks such as:
- Bathing, showering and shaving
- Getting dressed
- Oral hygiene
- Applying make-up, nail varnish or styling hair
- Foot and skincare
- Toileting and continence
- Changing or maintaining a stoma or catheter bag
A Country Cousins carer can also assist with a range of tasks in the home, such as:
- Cleaning, tidying and doing laundry
- Grocery shopping and meal preparation
- Companionship
- Accompanying to appointments or trips out in the local community
- Running errands such as collecting prescriptions, collecting a pension or paying bills
Types of personal care
All of our home care services are tailored to the individual needs of each client, so you get exactly the care you want when you need it.
Our personal care service can be combined with any other type of care that your loved one needs. For example, if your loved one lives with a health condition such as dementia or diabetes, we will match you with a carer who is skilled and experienced in that condition.
We provide specialised support for many different types of conditions, from Alzheimer’s care and cancer care to palliative care. Our home care services can be employed on a long-term basis or a temporary or short-term basis, such as when postoperative care is needed or respite care to cover for an existing caregiver.
Whatever your need, we are here to support you. Get in touch for a no-obligation quote to find out how we can support you or your loved one to live well at home.
Arrange personal care today
We are the UK’s longest-serving introductory live-in care agency and have been providing compassionate personal care to people in their own homes since 1959.
We offer a free enquiry service with absolutely no obligation. Call us today on 01293 224706 Monday to Friday between 8 am – 6 pm. Alternatively, complete our online enquiry form, and we will be in touch soon.