The Versatility of Tailored Personal Home Care Services

Here at Severn Vale Home Care, we recognise that there are many misunderstandings about care options and that older people often feel that there are few routes to receiving the help they need. Many struggle to remain independent without assistance, with fears that a residential care home is the only other solution.

Home care is something very different. We ensure that every person requiring support throughout the local area has access to the right assistance, from companionship to help around the home, live-in care to provide continual assurance and support, and specialist care for those with more complex health or care needs.

Here we’ve shared some guidance and insight to clarify how home care services work, why they are a perfect way to ensure you can remain happy and well in the comfort of your home, and the many types of customised home care we offer.

An Introduction to Personalised Home Care Support in Worcester and Malvern

Home care doesn’t follow one set routine and is organised entirely on your terms. This means you have control over the care you receive, based on what works best for you or your loved one, at every step of the way.

Our primary aim as an award-winning, family-owned and local home care service is to ensure nobody struggles alone, feels unsure where to turn for help, or feels forced to make impossibly hard decisions about selling their home, leaving behind everything they know, or rehoming much-loved furry friends when they’re finding it hard to manage.

Severn Vale Home Care is backed by an incredibly experienced team with over 35 years of combined expertise. We know just how much our warm, considerate, and friendly Care Professionals matter to older people in our community, and equally how much their roles mean to them.

Our job isn’t to tell you how to manage your care needs or how to support an older person who is finding practical chores, mobility, or cooking more difficult. It is to provide access to the wealth of knowledge we have, empowering you to make proactive, confident decisions about the right care for you and your family.

Understanding the Flexible Ways We Structure Home Care Around Your Wishes

Families and older people who haven’t been in contact with a home care team before are often unclear about the options—and this is completely understandable. We can always make time to sit down with a cup of tea to chat about how it all works or book a home visit if you’d like one of our wonderful team members to come to you.

Some of the most important pieces of information that help demonstrate how varied our care arrangements can be are as follows:

• Visiting care slots are arranged every day of the week. They can begin first thing in the morning at 7 a.m. and extend to evening and twilight visits until 10 p.m.
• Live-in care is available 24/7, with two-hour rest breaks built in every day to ensure your Care Professional has time to recharge.
• Care visits can be as short or as long as you would like. Visiting care starts from shorter 30-minute calls to longer visits if you’d like more assistance, for your Care Professional to spend more time with you, or if you would benefit from a greater degree of support with domiciliary tasks, personal care, and mobility.

For many of the older people our Care Professionals look after, domiciliary care represents the ideal degree of help. Our capable, and highly qualified teams provide assistance with a whole host of tasks, including personal care, meal preparation, basic housekeeping, medications, support with trips and social engagements, and caring for pets.

Live-in care is a more dedicated level of home care support built specifically around your preferences. Specialist care is another option if you need respectful, personalised help living happily and well at home while managing health issues or complex concerns.

The Benefits of Customised, Compassionate Home Care Assistance

It is almost impossible to overstate how much home care means to many older adults within the Worcester and Malvern communities.

Many find living alone difficult not only due to the practicalities of cleaning, cooking, and grocery shopping but also because they want a friendly face to talk with and the peace of mind that they will never spend extended periods without company.

In much the same way, Care Professionals offering specialist support can help with adaptable dementia care, as just one example, ensuring that individuals and their family members know that a loved one is never isolated or alone and has a Care Professional they know, trust, and can rely on.

How Family-Feel Home Care Goes Beyond Practical Support

Home care is about so much more than helping with daily routines, having somebody make the bed, keep the house tidy, prepare meals, and take care of laundry. It can mean:

• Autonomy over your decisions, with the option to decide between care at home or specialist care support, with no pressure to relocate into a residential care home if you prefer not to.
• The ability to continue enjoying life, social activities and friendship groups, with help to travel to meet-ups, host friends and family, or join in with the crafts and hobbies you love.
• Focusing on quality time, relaxation and rest, knowing that your Care Professional is always happy to manage tasks and chores, check you are comfy and well, remind you about medications, and act as an extension of your own family.

Care planning is an inclusive process in which you have as much say as anybody and can tell us what the perfect amount of care would look like for you.

Alternatively, we’ll invite you to share details and information with us to ensure we know how to add the most value to the life of an older person who may find it difficult to express their likes and dislikes.

In every scenario, we are here to remove stress and anxiety, help with worries and concerns, and ensure you have all the help and guidance you need to choose the right way forward, with time and care taken to explain the types of care available and help you arrange the solutions that are a great fit for your needs.

Please contact Severn Vale Home Care at any time for a chat with one of our management team or Care Professionals. We’ll answer any questions you may have or organise a home visit at your convenience to discuss the next steps in person.