Researching care options can be overwhelming, especially with the numerous services available. Live-in care is an excellent choice for individuals who require ongoing, complex service from professional, experienced carers.
With over 35 years’ experience in delivering leading home care and support, Patricia White’s understands many of the difficulties that our clients face. That’s why we will always prioritise the happiness, safety and well-being of our clients above all else. To help you understand what this support looks like in practice, you can read our guide on how live-in care works.
Standard Live-in Care
We offer live-in, round-the-clock assistance for those needing standard care, which includes:
- Daily living assistance: Proactive support with daily routines, such as bathing, dressing, grooming and oral hygiene.
- Mobility assistance: Help with moving around the home, transferring from bed to chair and using mobility aids.
- Medical coordination: Maintaining close communication with doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to ensure cohesive and comprehensive care.
- Dedicated care: Support for specific conditions at an early stage, such as dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke, or chronic illnesses.
Live-in Care+
Our Care+ package includes all of the standard care benefits, plus the following:
- Daily living assistance: Active assistance of routine activities such as bathing, dressing, grooming, and oral hygiene.
- Nutrition management: Assistance with eating and drinking at mealtimes.
- Personal care: Support with incontinence care, including the use of a commode or catheter bag emptying.
- Mobility assistance: Support with moving around the home, transferring from bed to chair, and using mobility aids.
- Dedicated care: Providing comprehensive and tailored support for individuals with specific conditions, including dementia, Parkinson’s, stroke, or chronic illnesses. Our services are tailored to meet the specific needs of each individual.
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Bespoke Care Tailored to Your Needs
At Patricia White’s, we never underestimate the importance of matching bespoke, prestigious carers with our clients. Your carer must be someone you can trust, get along with, and even form a strong connection with.
To ensure this, we only work with the very best carers the industry has to offer and match our clients with the most suitable and experienced carer possible, tailored to their individual needs.
When matching carers to clients, we consider:
- Your needs and the carer’s individual experience
- Your interests, along with the carers’, to ensure you have common ground
- Personality traits and social engagements
We pay attention to the finest of details because we know that it is the little things which can make all the difference. If you’re not happy with the carer we choose for your service, we’ll begin the matching process again and won’t stop until you’re comfortable and confident moving forward.
Live-in Care Frequently Asked Questions
As an introductory agency, we interview potential carers and conduct relevant checks, including DBS, right to work in the UK, and professional references. We also ensure they have completed any training that is required and that this is kept up to date. The carers then work on a self-employed basis.
As an introductory agency, we do not direct care, giving the client the freedom to direct their own care as they wish.
A live-in carer would need to have their own bedroom with space to store their belongings. The carers would also need to be provided with food. Often, they will eat the same food as the client and will then eat at mealtimes, unless the client prefers to eat alone.
Our carers are happy to travel anywhere in the UK. Depending on their visa status, many of them are also happy to travel outside of the UK to accompany clients on trips if this is needed.
For visiting care, our carers can cover the majority of Central London. Explore the areas we cover to discover which services are available for your location.
Should occasional care be required at night during a live-in care assignment, a ‘waking fee’ will be charged by the carer. We are mindful of the impact that a working service will have on our carers’ daytime support. Therefore, if multiple waking episodes occur, we recommend taking additional time off during the day or hiring an additional night carer.
If you’d like to speak with our support team in complete confidence and without obligation, simply call. We’ll do everything we can to help.
Our London visiting carers are also able to provide specific overnight care. We offer two different types of night care, both 12 hours long. If the client is up most of the night, a carer can do a full awake night for the 12 hours, or if they are only needed a couple of times during the night, they also offer a sleeper duty. During a sleeper duty, the carer would need to be provided with a bedroom to sleep in and can be called on by the client up to 3 times during the night.
