Personal Care

The Facts

Every year thousands more people go into residential and nursing care because they are unable to be cared for by family or friends:

• 30% of households have one person living alone (that´s 7 million households)
• 4.1m people over the age of 50 live alone
• 55% of people over 50 years old do not have a living relative within a 1/2 hour journey time
• 14% of all households are single pensioners

What is it?

Our Personal care services provide additional support for those service users who may be more dependent on help to enable them to stay living in their own home. It may be that the individual requires help with activities such as bathing, toiletry, getting up/out of bed, etc., all of which will help aid personal hygiene and provide the assistance to remain mobile and as independent as possible.

Our Objective

To ensure that our service users have all the personal assistance they requiring in helping them to remain independent as they can in the safety and comfort of their own home.

How can we help?

Personal Care may cover a range of activities where we are able to provide support, for example:

• Bathing – encouragement of service users to bath themselves, helping them in and out of the bath/shower, help with washing, shaving and dental care, etc.
• Toiletry – providing assistance to and from the toilet, catheter care and colostomy care if required.
• Rise/Put-to-bed – assistance with getting up and out of bed, help with making the bed, help with dressing/undressing, etc.

– We are only a phone call away. Use our Branch Finder to find out your nearest Medico office.

Further Information:

www.doh.gov.uk – The Department of Health