Get support at home
Get help if you’re struggling with everyday tasks like washing, cooking and taking your medicine.
Home care support
Home care can help you stay independent in your own home if you're struggling with everyday tasks.
It can include help with:
- personal care (bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, medication support)
- household and community tasks (meal preparation, cleaning, laundry, shopping)
If you want to arrange your own private home care, you can contact a home care agency. Home care agencies provide trained care workers or nurses who can help you at home.
Some agencies offer specialist support for people with:
- learning disabilities
- dementia
- mental health problems
- brain injuries
If you're struggling to manage your daily care needs but do not want, or are unable, to find care privately, you can request that we do this for you.
Before making a request
Before any support is put in place, one of our social care practitioners will assess your needs. This assessment will consider not only what you need help with but also what you can do for yourself.
The support offered will depend on how much your needs are impacting your ability to manage your daily activities. Not everyone who is assessed will be offered our home care support. We may instead be able to provide advice and connect you to other local support services.
Our home care is ‘means-tested’. This means that you may have to pay towards the cost of your care if your income and savings are over a certain amount. We will ask you or your representative to complete a financial assessment form, which will help us work out how much you will need to contribute.
Find out more about paying for care.
To request an assessment for home care support, contact the adult social care team.
Further information
You can:
- get guidance on getting help at home and choosing home care services
- get information and advice on help at home from a carer
- search for home care agencies in your area
- search for home help service for tasks such as housework, shopping and assistance for the elderly
- use Rally Round to organise family members, friends and carers who look after someone