Personal Care

What is ‘Personal Care’??

Personal care is a special personal assistance around activities for daily living. Ensuring that your loved one has support in all areas of personal hygiene and grooming that an individual may find a challenge to carry out themselves.

Our personal carers assist in all areas whether this be bathing, showering, dressing hair, oral care or medication administration. Assistance is not just limited to these tasks, as our carers will assist in all areas of an individual’s personal care routine and they ensure that tasks are carried out with the individual not to the individual.

Personal care services offers individuals all the support and comfort caregivers can provide within the familiarity of their own home. It serves as a superb choice for those who are able of living within their own home yet still require help with tasks that are a little out of reach. Personal care also grants clients an incredible sense of companionship, as the unique care services that make up personal care easily invites plenty of friendly interaction.

While other care services aim to accommodate and encourage a rich and fulfilling life within a client’s own home, personal care helps to support them in almost every way imaginable. Due to the diverse selection of services available, personal care is a fantastic care service for essentially any client and can make a significant difference to their quality of life.

Types of Personal Care

Each care service provided by Esteemed Life Care is tailor made to your loved ones’ wishes and preferences, and thanks to the incredibly vast selection of services available there are a variety of different types of personal care.

Personal care can be – bathing showering, washing, dressing, oral care, hair care, dressing, continence care, applying creams etc.

Thanks to the array of services available crafting a personalised care and support experience is simple and can last for as long as it’s needed.

Benefits of Personal Care?

There are as many benefits to personal care as there are distinct services available. Not only does the eclectic nature of personal care lend itself well to virtually any client, it also means that it can be utilised within the comfort of a loved one’s own home. Tending to a loved one in the familiar surroundings of their own home can help with either a recovery or simply maintaining their prefered life style by leaps and bounds as opposed to the likes of a care home.

Above all else it’s the startling variety of care services that makes personal care a brilliant choice. Almost any care requirement imaginable is able to be tended to with personal care, and thanks to the diverse abilities of the diligent caregivers that assist with personal care your loved one will not only be in good hands but those that are able to adapt to new requests.

Those recovering from illness or injury can benefit from the many different services offered by personal care, as these include assisting or applying medication, balms or lotions as well as tending to specific areas of the body. Of course, with this kind of medical assistance comes the support for every other requirement that comes with it, including the likes of helping your loved ones to get around the house and bathe themselves; tasks that can be incredibly challenging after surgery or an extensive stay in hospital.

If you are experiencing an illness or recovering from an injury, individual personal care can be a challenge. Our team of caregivers are able to assist in all areas of personal care ensuring that your wishes and preferences around your personal care routine are maintained. Your required medication is administered and you are assisted with your pain management and pressure care comfort. Our caregivers ensure that they have a holistic approach to assisting you back on the road to recovery.

Support in the comfort of your own home

The extensive skill set possessed by our diligent and supportive caregivers can work wonders in a client’s home, as their care can be quite familiar to that of a personal assistant. Though the carer’s medical knowledge may not be as extensive as a hospital based professional they will certainly be able to assist with tasks that skilled members of the family and other similar helpers can help with in the comfort of a home.

These include, but are certainly not limited to, applying and administering medicine and medical lotions, tending to specific pains in the body and aiding mobility. These are all usually handled in a hospital, though personal care is more than capable of providing these services within familiar surroundings. Thanks to this, your loved ones can truly relax and recover in an area that is solely theirs, granting a certain level of independence and comfort.

A brief guide on what our Personal Care assistants will do.

Arranging care for your loved one

Esteemed Life Care is run both by a family with the people of Coventry’s best interests at heart as well as a dedicated team of skilled professionals, boasting more than 30 years of specialist experience. Due to the combined efforts this impressive team of care and support specialists it is incredibly simple to tailor make a personal care package that is truly personalised to your loved one’s needs, wishes and preferences.

We take our time to extensively establish exactly what your loved one needs in order to live their life to the fullest, all whilst ensuring that they retain a feeling of independence and promising discretion. Getting in touch is the easiest manner in which to thoroughly discuss any personal care options, and we believe that each client should be respected on an individual basis, specially crafted care service so that they can live comfortably in their own home; no matter what kind of support they require.

You can rest easy knowing that with Esteemed Life Care your loved one will be treated with the utmost respect by specially selected caregivers that are not only experts of their field but are exceptionally compassionate. We regularly provide our carers with ongoing training and often conduct surprise inspections, and continuous supervision and monitoring through spot checks. Ensuring that they’re the right carer for you and your loved one. Esteemed Life Care doesn’t settle for second best, which is why we work closely with the Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) as well as the Care Quality Commission (CQC), all so you can rest assured that your loved ones are receiving the best personal care available in your area.

Cost of Personal Care

When it comes to personal care our approach to creating individual care services is even more important than usual. We work closely with you to determine what kind of care service is required from our many other available care services, personal care is a unique service and we truly take the time to ensure that it is unique to you and your loved one’s needs.

With this specially tailored nature in mind we cannot give an indication of prices here, which is why we advise that you contact us directly via calling 0247 771 9580. Should you contact us we can carefully go through your wants and needs after booking a free, non-obligatory care assessment, in which we will discuss potential costs as well as any desired services.

Here at Esteemed Life Care we live to serve Coventry and everyone in it who may require our assistance, so we endeavour to keep our costs as low as possible. We are also open to discuss the possibility of gaining assistance from social services, so rest assured we will comprehensively go through every finance option available.