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Eilean Siar / Western Isles: Independent living > Home from hospital services services
Home from hospital services provide short term practical help for elderly people returning to their home after a period in hospital. These are designed to help people re-adjust to living at home again, gain in confidence, and provide short term practical help after hospital discharge.
The assistance provided can include help with dressing, undressing, and personal hygiene, fetching shopping or prescriptions, going to the post office or bank for you, accompanying you to hospital, GP, optician or hairdresser appointments, liaising with a range of other services on your behalf, providing essential food on the day of discharge from hospital, helping you sort out any paperwork or bills, arranging for furniture to be moved around, offering a friendly chat, encouraging you to take medication, and possibly giving benefits advice.
These services offer after care visiting immediately after discharge from hospital especially for older people who live alone. Home care after a hospital stay services aim to make sure that you can go home and live safely. Home care after a hospital stay services provides time limited services for patients returning home from hospital after illness, surgery or accident. Many elderly people are fit to return home, but need some assistance with personal care and/or other support in the early days of discharge to regain their confidence and strength. At the end of the short term help, people are often able to remain at home without any further help.
A range of different organisations provide short term home from hospital services for older people including health care organisations, local authority adult social care services , the voluntary sector, and commercial home care organisations. Many providers do not charge for the short term help, although commercial companies do charge for their services.
Discharge from hospital should always be planned and arranged by a team which will include, or have links with, Social Services and Health (the Primary Care Trust). Patients and their carers should be given adequate warning of the precise date and time of leaving hospital. There should be contingency planning for Friday afternoon or weekend discharges, and the home of a patient living alone should be properly prepared for their return. A range of services may be provided that will help you recover when you leave hospital. These could be Therapists, Care Assistants or Nurses which can be provided in your own home.
1 - 12 of 12 Home from hospital services services in Eilean Siar / Western Isles.
Get support at home
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Transport home from hospital
If you are feeling lonely, please know that you are not alone. The British Red Cross is here to help you. One in five people in the UK say they experience feelings of loneliness, and during the coronavirus pandemic ...
Contact: British Red Cross Society, 44 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9AL.
Home care / Hospital at home
We provide both registered nursing and home care staff, for : All Personal care, Meals, accompanied outings, such as hospital, vets etc. Respite home care to relieve family support, ie holidays etc or day relief.&nb...
Contact: Care at Home Services, 59 Bonnygate, Cupar, Fife, Cupar, Fife, KY15 4BY.
Carewatch
Our mission at Carewatch is to provide high quality care outcomes for vulnerable people who want to live at home, independently. We provide quality, personalised home care services designed to enable our customers to re...
Contact: Carewatch, CSN Care Group Ltd t/a Carewatch, Unit 4, Rankin House, Murdoch Court, Roebuck Way, Knowlhill, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK5 8GB.
Live-in Care & Companionship
Country Cousins introduce live-in carers to provide care, companionship and support in the clients own home. They help with meal preparatoin, the running of the home, personal care and escor...
Contact: Country Cousins, Suite 5G Gatwick House, Peeks Brook Lane, Horley, West Sussex, RH6 9ST.
HomeTouch - Live in Care
We know what it takes to make a great live-in carer – warmth, empathy and expertise. Hometouch is one of the nation's leading providers of live-in care. We have no hidden costs and offer free, no-obligation assess...
Contact: HomeTouch, 40 Clerkenwell Road, Clerkenwell, London EC1R 0NE, LONDON, London, EC1R 0NE.
MyLife Home Care West Scotland & Glasgow
MyLife Home Care offers professional and compassionate support in the home to enable a more independent lifestyle. From companionship, social visits to personal care and domestic help to more complex medical support and ...
Contact: MyLife Home Care, Unit 6 Beardmore Business Centre, Beardmore Street, Clydebank, G81 4HA.
Hospital Support
We provide a wide range of services and support in hospitals which free up NHS staff time for patient care. Our thousands of hospital volunteers help improve older people’s experience in hospital, support their rec...
Contact: Royal Voluntary Service, Beck Court , Cardiff Gate Business Park , Cardiff , CF23 8RP.
The Care Agency
The Care Agency has been offering a live in care service for 20 years, with personal attention to every detail. We are a national company, who introduce kind, warm and compassionate carers with traditional values wh...
Contact: The Care Agency, 23a Church Street, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE17 4AE.
24 Hour Live-in Home Care Service
Our expertly trained professional carers provide a range of tailored live in care services across England and Scotland, everything from companionship, personal elderly care, lifestyle support, domestic duties and social ...
Contact: The Good Care Group, 15th Floor, Tower Building, York Road, London, SE1 7NQ.
Home Improvement Agency Service
We are the Care and Repair department and we aim to deliver a high quality service. The service also undertakes repair work and identification of safety issues and hazards within the home. What do we do? The Care and R...
Contact: TIG’ Care and Repair Service, 41A Point Street, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, HS1 2XF.
Adult Social Care
A range of services for people including advice, support and services for older people
Contact: Adult Social Care, Council Offices, Sandwick Road, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, HS1 2BW.