Personal Care

Personal care is the additional support you may need to maintain your personal hygiene and well-being to live safely and comfortably in your own home. That includes any daily activity that is of personal nature including maintaining your physical appearance, continence management, food and diet, personal assistance such as help to get in and out of bed, dressing, using hoists, etc. Depending on your needs and requirements personal care may include more complex tasks such as changing a stoma bag, enteral feeding, pressure sores management or airway management.

Personal care teams provide friendly and professional help for older people with daily tasks such as washing, dressing and bathing, or assistance with meals and medication. Working closely with our clients, Alcedo Care creates a bespoke care plan based on their specific and unique requirements.

Alcedo Care provides care and support to adults of any age with a wide range of personal needs, who need assistance to continue living in their homes safely and comfortably while maintaining their dignity and independence. No matter your health condition, our teams of professionals will create a tailored care plan to satisfy your needs and requirements to a high standard. Personal care is suitable for people with:

• Complex care – personal complex care is suitable for people who might need clinical interventions such as changing stoma bags, catheters, wound dressing, PEGs, etc. especially when family or friends looking after you or your loved one do not feel capable or comfortable providing that kind/type of care and support. With the help and support from our nurse-led team, we will ensure all your clinical needs and requirements are satisfied.
• Dementia / Alzheimer’s – Dementia is a progressive neurological condition that with time affects our brain functioning leading to memory loss, therefore, our ability to maintain our usual routines. That might be forgetting if you brushed your teeth, ate during the day, took your medicine, etc. With our personal carers, you will keep your personal hygiene and appearance to a high standard and eliminate the worry that you have forgotten to take your prescribed medications.
• Mobility issues or post-operation care – age or different health conditions might limit our movements leading to less mobility that causes difficulties with maintaining your usual routines. Our personal carers can help and support you with washing, bathing, bed positioning to avoid any pressure sores or infections, wound dressing, dressing, going in and out of bed, providing you support to move from one place to another to avoid falls, etc.

Personal care is an important part of our everyday life and depending on how well we maintain it, it can affect our health and well-being differently. Poor management can lead to many complications such as infections, worsening your existing health condition, low self-esteem, depression, etc. Therefore, good personal hygiene is vital for our health and especially for our elderly loved ones.

We understand that this is a sensitive topic especially when it comes to personal hygiene, but with the help and support of our professional personal carers, your and or your loved ones’ needs will be taken care of with respect and dignity while enriching your quality of life and keep your self-esteem while in the comfort of your own home!

Benefits of Personal Care:

• Maintain dignity, personal hygiene and appearance to a high standard.
• Avoid falls at home – our carers will help and support you to get in and out of bed, assist you with bathing and toileting, support you going up or down the stairs, etc. to minimise falls especially if you are struggling with your balance or have mobility issues.
• Independence – our carers will provide you with care according to your needs while maintaining your routines.
• Continue to live in your own home – one of the main benefits of personal care is that you do not need to move to a residential home or a hospital. With our personal care plans, you will continue living in your own home while receiving care and support from our professional carers.
• Peace of mind for you and your family, knowing that your needs and requirements are taken care of in the comfort of your own home with no need to separate from family, friends, pets and familiar surroundings. No stress and anxiety of changing your routines or moving away from your home.
• Improve the quality of life – our personal carers will ensure that all needs and requirements are satisfied while making sure you stay hydrated and have a nutritional diet.
• Discreet and sensitive one-to-one support.

We understand that it could be emotionally and mentally challenging to look after your parents or loved ones especially when you carry more intimate tasks such as bathing and toileting and in some cases tasks that require clinical interventions such as changing stoma bags, catheters, PEGs, etc.

The boundary between being a carer and a loved one is hard to maintain, and sometimes the border between both gets blurry, causing burnout. In these cases, we can help. Our team of friendly and professional carers provide care and support to adults of all ages who need some assistance to continue living at home safely and comfortably. We can help you or your loved one with but not limited to:

• Bathing and showering
• Applying lotions and creams when needed
• Dressing
• Toileting
• Oral hygiene
• Administering medications
• Bed positioning/pressure sores management
• Hair and beauty
• Complex care including changing catheter and stoma; enteral feeding; airway management

When putting together a personal care plan, our team works closely with you or your loved ones to ensure all your needs and requirements are fulfilled appropriately. Your needs and well-being are what we care about.

Our outstanding team of healthcare professionals have an excellent track record of providing flexible, high-quality, personal care. This improves the quality of life, maintains dignity and contributes greatly to the client’s well-being.