How We Help

Domestic Support

For many of our clients, having someone to help them in their own home is their number one lifeline and can easily be the difference between them staying in their home or having to move into full time residential care. At Herts Homecare, we realise that no adequate value can be placed on independence and the feeling that a person is still in control of their life. If we can help to maintain that for our clients, when we know we are doing our job right.

Some examples of support we offer include:

• Making / Changing bed
• Laundry / Ironing
• Washing up
• Cleaning Toilet / Bathroom
• Light Housework
• Shopping
• Assistance with using Central Heating / Fires
• One Off Cleaning Tasks. e.g. Spring Cleaning

Nutritional Care

Our care staff are trained to be able to help you plan a balanced diet and promote healthy eating. A healthy diet is not about strict nutritional philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather it's about feeling good, having more energy and keeping yourself as healthy as possible, all of which can be achieved by learning some nutritional basics and using them in a way that works for you.

Healthy eating can reduce your risk of illnesses such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes, as well as defend against depression. Eating healthy can help you keep your weight, cholesterol and blood pressure under control. Additionally, learning the habits of healthy eating can improve your health by boosting your energy, sharpening your memory and stabilizing your mood.

Our care staff will take into consideration any special dietary requirements you may have and will work alongside any other health professionals to make sure you have a suitable and varied diet.   

Our care staff can help with:

• Preparation of Meals, Breakfasts, Snacks
• Preparation of hot and cold drinks
• Planning a healthy and nutritious menu
• Preparation of food shopping lists
• Food shopping
• Advice on nutrition

Live-in Care

Live-in care can be delivered 24 hours a day, in the comfort and familiarity of your own home, by an experienced and professionally trained carer, who will provide care and support as well as be a full time companion; many become friends.

Our care manager will arrange to meet service users and their family or social worker in their own home for a live-in care consultation. This is when we can carry out an assessment of service users’ care needs, learn about likes and dislikes, complete risk assessments, raise and resolve any health and safety concerns for the prospective service user and their carers, etc. We then produce a live-in care plan which will be tailored to the service users’ exact requirements and finally select a small live-in care team. Members of the team will alternate in providing care, possibly two weeks on and two weeks off depending on the agreed schedules.

Waking nights and Sleepovers

On a waking night our carers are on call at all times during the night and are awake, alert and making certain our service user is sleeping or resting or at least safe, sound and secure.

On a Sleepover duty our carers are at hand in the service users’ home, for them to call on as they need them. A bed must be provided for our care staff, but you have peace of mind that there is someone on hand if required.

Our shifts are from 10pm through to 8am.

Hourly or block support

Domiciliary Care ,in the form of hourly care allows you to receive help every day, without the need of  a full-time, live-in carer. This is perfect if you wish to live as independently as possible.

Our hourly care services include:

* Personal Care              * Housework           * Dressing            *Shopping              * Preparation/serving of meals

*Administering of medicine (excluding injections and controlled drugs)             * Companionship (at home or on trips)

You can request as little or as much care as you want, creating a tailored package to suite your lifestyle, i.e. 1,2,3 or 4 calls per day or a block support of a number of hours in one go.