Personal Care
Personal care is the support and supervision of daily personal living tasks and private hygiene.
Personal care is the support and supervision of daily personal living tasks and private hygiene and toileting, along with dressing and maintaining your personal appearance. It can also include helping with meal preparation, laundry, and bed changing. It provides you or your loved one with the opportunity to receive discreet and sensitive one-to-one support from a fully-trained private carer.
Everyone’s personal care needs are unique, but they typically involve carer-provided assistance with the following tasks:
- Bathing/cleaning/showering
- Shaving
- Assistance with medication
- Eating habits
- Toilet assistance
- Laundry
- Skin care
- Changing your bed
- Using local services
- Seeing friends and family
As people get older, the above tasks become increasingly important due to the fact that the elderly are more susceptible to infection and or illness.
A carer can assist with:
Our carers can sensitively assist with personal hygiene to help you feel confident every day
With a career, getting dressed and undressed can become much quicker and simpler
Your carer can help you with brushing your teeth and other areas of oral hygiene
A carer can help you apply make-up, as well as helping with shaving and hair care
Good foot care is especially if you are diabetic and need to be extra vigilant with your feet
A carer can help with toileting, changing continence pads, and cleaning intimate areas
Our carers can help you to move position in bed to stretch and help avoid pressure injuries
Your personal carer can help change or maintain a stoma or catheter bag