Care and support will be provided in the locality of your home address (unless otherwise specifically requested) for the duration (period) of time stated or agreed.
Practical Domestic (Housework) tasks commonly include:
• Personal shopping
• Personal laundry including ironing
• Collection of pensions and banking
• Payment of bills
• Vacuuming and dusting
• General tidying of rooms
• Checking on fridge contents and ensuring cleanliness
• Washing and drying up and putting away crockery etc
• Cleaning of bathroom and WC areas
• Assistance with writing or reading correspondence
• Collecting light snacks
Personal Care may involve:
• Bathing, Washing and Dressing
• Changing pads and clothing
• Emptying and cleaning commodes
• Emptying catheter bags
• Assistance with cleaning teeth/dentures
• Shaving
• Washing and drying hair
• Assistance to get up and go to bed
• Assistance with eating and preparing meals
• Encouragement, reminders and administration of medication
• Encouragement to undertake treatments or regimes as prescribed by a health care professional
• Catheter care
• Escorting to appointments
Specialised Care Tasks: are only undertaken by those who have been specifically trained to do so and would not normally fall under the remit of daily personal care duties.
• Stoma care
• Care of a Gastrostomy
• Bolus feeding
• Buccal Midazelom administration
• Oxygen therapy
• Management of Epilepsy
• Oral suctioning