Registered domiciliary care · Northern Ireland
Services
We support people in three broad groups: physical disability, mental health, and people who are frail or elderly. The service is open to private clients and to people whose care is funded through social services.
The point of the work is independence. Good support can help someone stay at home, rather than move into a care home or hospital, and it can take some of the physical and emotional strain off family carers.
We can provide a carer for a few hours a week, every day, or several times a day. The type and the level of service stay flexible.
What a visit can include
Help with washing, dressing, oral hygiene, going to the bathroom and managing incontinence. Health-related tasks, such as pressure care or stoma care, are carried out under the guidance of a doctor or community nurse.
Support with moving about, getting up, and getting ready for bed.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and a bedtime tea, and help with eating and drinking where it is needed.
Shopping done for the household, so food and the ordinary essentials are in the house.
The work that keeps a home comfortable: vacuuming, dusting, washing up, laundry and ironing.
Time for a family carer to step away, while the person they look after is supported at home.
A waking night or a sleep-in, when someone needs a person in the house after dark.
Paying for care
You may be able to get help with the cost through your local health and social care trust. If you want to know who to speak to, call the office and we will point you the right way. Benefit information is published on nidirect, linked from our useful links page.
How much support
Some people want a short call. Some want a carer in several times a day, or someone in the house overnight. Tell us what a workable day looks like and we will say honestly whether we can provide it.