Why could elderly care be an option for me?
Elderly care provides support around your home and daily life. This helps you live independently and remain at home for as long as you choose. Elderly care is adapted to you, your needs and your schedule. We provide elderly home care as a live-in or live-out option and on a full-time or part-time basis, depending on what sort of assistance it is you are looking for. Elderly home care is there to ensure your life continues to run as smoothly as possible by providing a helping hand where you need it most. From helping with housework and organising social events to taking you to your doctor's appointments, elderly home care ensures you stay in your beloved home for as long as possible.
Our carers are experienced, friendly, and highly skilled. They are enthusiastic and highly trained to help our clients continue to live independently in familiar surroundings for as long as possible. Health changes or lifestyle adjustments can be challenging. We believe familiar surroundings provide the best environment for adapting to these changes.
While our carers are able to help with a range of duties, the focus tends to be on your health and wellbeing. While they'll help with household chores, their main focus includes things like medication management, assisting with physiotherapy exercises, taking you to appointments and liaising with doctors, mobility support, grooming and personal care. Our elderly carers may be a friendly face to run errands with, but they're also a source of emotional support through the tougher times. So no matter what you’re going through, you’ll have someone standing by your side.
If you're living with conditions such as Alzheimer's, familiar surroundings will be of great benefit, so remaining at home becomes even more important. Our carers can provide specialist support. Many have additional training and understand the unique challenges these conditions bring.
What does elderly care include?
Elderly care is perfect for those who are looking for a helping hand at home and within their day-to-day life and who are not quite ready to move into a retirement residence. Help for the elderly living at home is completely flexible to mould around your needs and your schedule. So whether you're looking for someone to pop in once a week to take you to an appointment or someone to live in with you full-time, our elderly carers are here to help. The added support around your day-to-day life will mean you are able to live as independently as possible, without feeling like a burden on your loved ones to get essential tasks done and remain in your home and community for as long as possible.
Personalised care in your home
Private carers for the elderly provide personalised, one-to-one care in the environment you feel most comfortable in: your home. Moulding and evolving to your needs, an elderly carer ensures your needs are being met and you remain independent within your community. Available to you on both live in or live out arrangements as well as either full time or part time means that no matter what you’re looking for, what you need assistance with, there is an elderly carer for you. Your focus can be directed to the aspects of your life that are important to you, whether that's your loved ones or a social cause you believe in.
Your elderly carer can assist you with almost everything such as:
- Laundry and ironing
- Preparing your favourite meals
- Liaising with doctors
- Gardening
- Ensuring your home is kept clean and tidy to your standards
- Taking pets on walks
- Personal care
- Mobility support
- Helping with the hoovering
- Organising activities
- Helping with a hobby
- Changing bed linen
Ensuring your security for your peace of mind
Home care for the elderly in their home gives your loved ones the added peace of mind that you are in safe, capable and experienced hands. Having an extra able-bodied adult within the home adds another level of security. Home help for the elderly assures that there is someone on hand if you should have a fall at any point of the day or night and it also deters any uninvited visitors. Ensuring you feel safe and secure within your own home is a core aspect of elderly home care.
Expert and specialised care
Clinical expertise when you need it most. If you're living with conditions such as dementia or Parkinson's disease, our carers receive specialist training to provide knowledgeable support. They understand these conditions and can guide you through changes with patience and expertise, giving both you and your family confidence in your care.
How do I start my elderly carer search?
Taking the first step and knowing where to start can be a daunting thought, which is why consulting an agency that specialises in elderly carers is essential to ensuring your search is stress-free. With an agency, you have access to expert, experienced advice. Agencies also take the hassle of finding someone out of your hands and make the process a seamless experience. With Guardian Carers, we interview and screen all our candidates and we provide sample contracts and a payroll service once you have found your perfect elderly carer.
Support from the first call
Elderly care agencies such as Guardian Carers take the hassle of resourcing potential carers from you and will only present you with the best of the best that we meet. We bring them into the office for a face-to-face interview where their experience and qualifications are discussed at length and we obtain verbal references, which we then personally check.
All of our carers will have the following:
- First Aid and Safeguarding qualification
- Enhanced DBS check
- At least 3 years of experience
- Any language requirements can be accommodated
From the very first call, your consultant will guide you through what your options are, what would suit your requirements most closely and put your mind to rest with any concerns you might have. Our consultants are also on hand to help and answer any questions you have along the way, using an agency that specialises in elderly care like Guardian Carers means you have a direct line to the experts.
Working with experts from the very start
Our years of experience within the care industry mean we know what it means to be an experienced, qualified carer. We pride ourselves on providing a providing a personalised care matching service. We maintain the highest standards and expect the best from our carers because we know you expect the best for yourself.
So much so that 90% of the families we work with achieve a happy, lasting placement. Using an agency that specialises in elderly care like Guardian Carers means you can be sure you will receive support from every angle, we will take the stress of finding a carer from you and present you with elderly home care that perfectly aligns with your care needs and your schedule.
We work with your family to find solutions, whatever your needs. Making perfect and seamless placements is Guardian Carers' ethos. With Guardian Carers, it's your care, your home, your way.