Looking after someone you love can be rewarding, important and deeply personal. It can also mean needing time away occasionally.
Our respite care at home provides temporary cover for a main carer, helping the person they support continue receiving familiar, professional care while their carer takes a break.
Respite care can be helpful when a family member or main carer needs time for rest, work, appointments, a holiday or other commitments.
Rather than expecting the person receiving care to adapt to us, we’ll learn about their existing routines and preferences so support can feel as familiar and consistent as possible.
Depending on their care plan, this may include personal care, companionship, mealtime support, appropriate medication support and help with everyday routines.
We’ll begin by understanding the person receiving support and what their main carer would usually provide.
That includes practical needs, but also the details that make a routine work: preferences, timings, interests, communication and what’s important to the individual.
From there, an appropriate care plan can be agreed before respite support begins.
Taking a break can be difficult when you’re used to being responsible for someone’s care.
Our aim is to make that transition feel as reassuring as possible by providing dependable support and, wherever possible, continuity through familiar carers.
Our carers receive training and ongoing support to provide the care agreed within each individual’s plan.
Nobody knows a person’s routines quite like the people who support them every day.
That’s why family and main carers can play an important part in helping us understand what works, what doesn’t and what makes the person feel comfortable – while keeping the wishes of the person receiving care at the centre.
The usual mug. The normal lunchtime. The programme that’s always on at three.
Small details can bring familiarity when someone’s usual carer isn’t there.
That’s Care beyond care.
Tell us about the care they currently receive and the respite support you’re looking for.
