Many older people dread having to move into full-time residential care, but realise they can no longer manage alone with deteriorating health or mobility. Live-in carers can provide a very welcome alternative, helping them to stay in their own home, retaining their independence, control, and lifestyle, for a cost comparable to that of going into a paid-for residential setting.
Spring Retirement is a small, well-established family business which provides that full-time, live-in support from a pool of well-qualified, highly experienced people who combine kindliness with the highest standards of professional care.
Rated all-round as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, the company carries out careful assessments of each client’s needs and matches them with carers of compatible personality. The carers take a spare bedroom and live in as a family member might do, helping with tasks including housework, shopping, personal care, social activities and special interests. At this time of year many people take pleasure in tending their own gardens and a live-in Spring Retirement carer can help them do as much as they wish and are able.
Importantly, they keep their whole home and stay in their own neighbourhood, among friends and familiar faces.
When people find that a few hours a week of domiciliary care from an agency is insufficient the Spring Retirement live-in service means somebody is always present, providing not only practical help but also companionship. And, with the company’s IT kit, trusted relatives can log in at any time to check that all is well, giving them peace of mind.
Support may be short-term, perhaps for just two or three weeks following illness or surgery, or long-term, when you can get great support from the carers looking after you.
Managing Director Richard Sharples says: “With a live-in carer you get one-to-one attention, which is very different to other options.”
