Continuity Care

Domiciliary care is provided to people who still live in their own homes but require additional support with different areas of their daily routines, including household tasks, personal care, getting to appointments and any other activity that allows them to maintain both their independence and quality of life. We can provide tailored solutions for your unique needs.

Live-in care is a popular respite choice for many people who need a break from caring. It enables your loved one to remain in their own environment, and this can be invaluable for you as their caregiver. It means you can have a break and be relaxed and safe in the knowledge the person you regularly care for is receiving the support and care they are used to in the familiar surroundings of their own home. It removes the need for the disruption that a stay in a residential hospice or home can sometimes cause.

Even the most stable and healthy families can be dramatically stressed by the demands of providing on-going care, and the sharing and arranging of care duties can be difficult to sort out and adhere to. The ever-changing roles and varying resource levels and commitments required can impact family participation. Often, people harbour resentment when caring for a loved one or relative for a long period and this can lead to burnout and impaired health. If you’re the main carer of the person you’re looking after, an occasional break from your caring responsibilities is essential.

We realise that someone with dementia presents a range of practical issues that can differ from others faced by carers. People with dementia often feel vulnerable as their condition progresses and they increasingly rely on other people to do things for them. A regular live-in carer will reassure and support them while helping them retain some level of independence and also make them feel more secure by creating a regular daily routine in a relaxed environment where they’re encouraged and not criticised. Involving the person cared for in simple everyday tasks makes them feel useful and improves their sense of self-worth. This can include getting them to help with the shopping, simple household tasks or light gardening

The carers we introduce offer support sensitively and aren’t critical of their clients as it is essential for them to feel that they’re still useful. It’s also very important for many people with dementia to enjoy their previous hobbies or interests. A live-in carer can help them maintain this interest by becoming involved in these activities or taking them on trips or visits.

By remaining at home with a live-in carer, a person with dementia can also be reassured by being in an environment they know and in close contact with familiar things and surrounded by family, friends and pets. It’s easy to feel isolated and alone if you have dementia; keeping in contact with other people is good for those with dementia because it helps to keep them active and stimulated.

The carer will ensure that the person they look after eats healthily and gets regular exercise. It’s vital that someone with dementia stays fit and healthy to maintain a better quality of life. People with dementia can become significantly more confused if their health deteriorates and they become ill.

Because a live-in carer will get to know their client’s personality and routines well, they will be able to accommodate any behavioural changes. For instance, it’s likely that the person being cared for will change their eating patterns and habits over time. By the carer being aware of this and trying to be flexible, it will make mealtimes less stressful.

Live-in carers will help the client with incontinence issues that are common for people with dementia to experience. A person with dementia may simply forget to go to the toilet or may forget where the toilet is. The carer is there at all times to help remind or prompt in these situations. Similarly, people with dementia can become anxious about certain aspects of personal hygiene and may need the carer to help them with washing and bathing.

Live-in care helps support people with physical disabilities to live safely and independently in their own homes. Obviously, those with physical disabilities often experience major issues with everyday life activities including their mobility, their ability to self-help, and general independence. Live-in care enables individuals to take part in regular social or therapeutic activities and events that they might otherwise be unable to access.

Studies have shown that people with physical disabilities can live successfully and be cared for in their own communities with the correct level of professional support and care. This is where professional live-in care services are often critical. Live-in carers provide twenty-four hour support to people with physical disabilities in their own homes. We offer a range of short or long-term support for clients with a variety of needs including Motor Neurone disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Cerebral Palsy, Parkinson’s disease and Huntingdon’s Chorea, Down’s Syndrome and Autism.

We understand that often health care for people with physical disabilities has been characterised by a lack of communication and poor understanding of both their ordinary and specialised needs. In addition there have been many barriers to access of health services that most members of the population take for granted. Our live-in carers’ knowledge and skill base means that more effective interventions are now available at home to help people with physical disabilities and their families cope.

By having a dedicated live-in carer, day-to-day access to health promotion, primary health care services, community health services and specialist health services are significantly improved.
This is where a live-in carer can help and recognise early symptoms of illness, maintain the importance of health screening and communicate the individual’s needs to a health professional.

Our carers will ensure that people with learning disabilities have opportunities to learn about their health and that such information is provided in ways that take communication difficulties into account. Secondly, people with severe learning and communication difficulties may not be able to express discomfort or pain in usual ways. Our live-in carers are aware of this and will be sensitive to changes in behaviour or well-being that indicate pain, illness or unhappiness

Obviously, people with learning disabilities have ordinary health care needs similar to those of the rest of the population and the same rights of access to health care services. By having a dedicated live-in carer, day-to-day access to health promotion, primary health care services, community health services and specialist health services is significantly improved. Our carers can also help clients with learning disabilities by supporting their learning and communication difficulties.

Because an individual with a learning disability may not understand the significance of a healthy lifestyle, they may begin to show signs of ill health. This is where a live-in carer can help and recognise early symptoms of illness, maintain the importance of health screening and communicate the individual’s needs to a health professional.

Live-in carers will ensure that people with learning disabilities have opportunities to learn about their health and that such information is provided in ways that take communication difficulties into account. Secondly, people with severe learning and communication difficulties may not be able to express discomfort or pain in usual ways. Live-in carers are aware of this and will be sensitive to changes in behaviour or well being that indicate pain, illness or unhappiness.

A live-in carer can assist clients with learning disabilities who may need careful preparation and assistance with hospital appointments or admissions and require opportunities to familiarise themselves with places and procedures such as hospitals or specialised service providers or appointments with doctors.

In addition to ordinary health care needs, people with learning disabilities may have much greater special health care needs than the general population and these can be closely monitored and supported by a team of dedicated live -in carers who each get to know the client on a one-to-one basis.

You may already be at home, or about to return home from a specialist care centre or a hospital, are feeling run-down, poorly, or have had some kind of accident or change in your life. Some people will only need a little support, others a great deal. A live-in carer can help you get back on your feet, or provide on-going support for you as long as you want or need it.

After an illness or trauma, it can be difficult for people to get their independence back, especially after they have been in hospital for a long time or have been trying to cope at home with difficulty.

We understand that an illness or injury can be life-changing to a person’s mind, body and spirit. For this reason, we believe home based, live-in care gives the individual the support and comfort in what is often the best healing environment. This type of care at home gives you the chance to rehabilitate, recharge and recommit to living the best quality of life in a careful and safe way with 24-hour support at your side.

Having a live-in carer at home can help facilitate an early discharge from hospital for you because of the safety and support they provide. A live-in carer in your own home can monitor your health and help recognise early symptoms or signs of recurrence of ill health as well as helping you avoid injury and resulting future hospital re-admissions.

Live-in care enables people of all ages and disabilities to remain in their own homes safely. Continuity Care’s service will work with other health teams to make discharge from hospital or residential care an easier process. A live-in carer can assist your rehabilitation, living adaptations or provide support to help you with self-management of your condition and, where possible, for treatment to take place at home.

We recognise that palliative and end of life care is not just about providing care in the last months of a person’s life, but about ensuring good quality of life for both patients and families at every stage of the illness process from diagnosis through treatment and onwards.

Our live-in carers support people of all ages who are suffering with life-threatening conditions or illnesses. When a condition is terminal, most of us wish, when able, to remain living in the comfort of our own homes. This is made much easier with the support of dedicated live-in carer at most stages of illness, from symptoms to diagnosis, through treatment or cure and in some cases, death and bereavement.

Principally, live-in palliative care aims to help provide the best quality of life for you, and your loved ones. People suffering life threatening conditions will often find those closest to them may have strong emotions about your condition and it is often becomes difficult in these situations to discuss your feelings for fear of upsetting them further. However, live-in carers can help you by relieving the burden placed on you and your loved ones and also help discuss and come to terms with everyone’s feelings at this difficult time. In addition, carers can provide support through periods of bereavement.